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Veteran
newsman Jim Benes has collected stories, photographs, and
vintage advertising from the past one hundred years and combined
them into a nostalgic look at Christmas in Chicago. These
"snapshots" are as familiar as a circle of friends
gathered around the family radio. Chicago Christmas is a book
sure to revive old memories and inspire new ones for the years
to come. There is even room at the back for families to add
their own Christmas memories. Here are what some noteable
people have said about the book.
Chicago
Christmas is a warm compilation of historically edifying treasures.
A must-read for families, history buffs, and the nostalgic.
-Felicia Middlebrooks, CBS News anchor
and CEO Saltshaker Productions
Chicago
and Christmas go together. They are, as people say, "an
item." This is because the city is so young and knows
so little of cynicism and so much of hope which is why the
Neediest Children's Christmas Fund has been so successful.
Chicago Christmas is a Yuletide present, one in which we can
see the smiles and joys (along with a few hurts) that make
up one hundred years of Chicago Christmas memories.
-Kenan Heise, Chicago author and Tribune
staff writer
My friend
Jim Benes tells, in this treasure book, the story of a city
and its people over the past one hundred years. It is, of
course, the snapshot of a family, the citizens of Chicago
and its suburbs, told in a marvelous collection of Christmastime
events from the last century.
-Chuck Shaden, radio historian and broadcaster.
"...a
homey, amiable book that has many of the strengths, and some
of the flaws, of the keepsake album of any big family, albeit
one that, in this particular case, documents the lives of
millions of family members."
-Reardon, Patrick, "A Century of Celebrating:
the Sad and Joyous, the Odd and Curious" The Chicago
Tribune, 25 December, 2000.
©
2001 Cornerstone Press Chicago
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