The scrapblog editor welcomed the Christmas season today by going to a morning show of the G
uthrie's "The Christmas Carol" and then lunch at Spoonriver with her excellent pal Holly, right, and by walking in a lovely snowfall. The Guthrie's Christmas chestnut is always delightful, and it was fun to see it in the new blue theater overlooking the Mississippi River. Raye Birk, above, starred as Scrooge.
Here's a quote from Dickens' classic we always liked:
Scrooge's nep
hew to his Uncle Ebenezer: "I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys."
hew to his Uncle Ebenezer: "I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys."
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