No matter where you were in the town, you saw two churches.. St. Peter and Paul Russian Orthodox–which still stands–and St. Ignatius, the building dead center in the middle of the famed fire.
The choir at St. Ignatius did justice to the Christmas season…
We came, all ye faithful..
We sang about the king of Glory..
We joyed to the world..
We talked about me.. and my drum…
There was majesty in that fine building, there was history.
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It was the final bright full moon of this decade.. And we will not see the number synchronicity for decades more.. It was one of the brightest moons in memory.. it was beautiful, big.. bold. A symbol of the trying teens coming to an end..
Following the 12121212 moon comes the Friday the 13th asteroid flyby!
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In the case of the Ashland PA Christmas tree, perhaps we can look to that tree as a good thing.. after all it could be worse!
On December 3, 1986, fierce winds that rolled through the area actually blew down the town Christmas tree. One hundred of the light globes got damaged as well.
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Black Friday just ain’t what it used to be.
Sure the UK DAILY MAIL picked up on a story from Allentown PA of people fighting in the Lehigh Valley Mall in front of a FOREVER 21 store.. But besides that event, very few other like it made headlines..
Christmas, it would seem, has lost its gusto.. it lost that faint scent of materialism…
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Traditions change..
Meanings evolve..
Turkeys still bake..
No matter how strange..
Daylight saving time became a national standard in 1966 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Uniform Time Act, which was established as a way to continue to conserve energy.
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