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Mother’s Fruitcake Recipe, Holiday Memories from the Depression onward, and a little family history—Ruth Evelyn Johnston-Thompson’s Golden (California) Fruitcake
You may be finished with your holiday baking. You may be sated from all your holiday eating.
Or, you may be bored in this week of the dead in these days between Christmas Day and New Year in which my birthday happens to fall.
Or, you may even be collecting yourself for next year. [...]
Generations of Family Christmas Traditions by Erwin A. Thompson
Evergreen Heights, the place pioneered by E.A. Riehl, my father’s grandfather
As a family, over generations, we developed some of our own Christmas traditions.
PROVIDING CHRISTMAS TREES FOR THE COMMUNITY
My Grandfather Riehl was a pioneer in this part of the country in raising evergreen trees for Christmas trees. We took orders, in those days, and had [...]
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