December 2018 – Page 4 – Fists and .45s!

God Bless Us, Every One

On: December 25, 2018January 25, 2024 By: Romeyn

Norman Rockwell Painting for the Saturday Evening Post, Dec 15th, 1934

Glad Tidings, 1935

On: December 25, 2018December 17, 2018 By: Romeyn

200 Years of Silent Night

On: December 24, 2018December 17, 2018 By: Romeyn

Silent Night (Stille Nacht) was first performed on Christmas Eve, 1818, at St Nicholas parish church in Oberndorf, Austria. The song was composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr. Below is a USO Christmas card from the early 40s with the lyrics to that famous carol.

Only the first two verses are presented on the card above, the last verse goes:
Silent night! holy night!
Son of God love’s pure light
Radiant beams from thy holy face
With the dawn of redeeming grace,
Jesus, Lord at thy birth.
Jesus, Lord at thy birth.

North Pole, 1930s

On: December 24, 2018December 24, 2018 By: Romeyn

North Pole detail from Map of the arctic / translated and revised by the American Geographical Society of New York from map in Andree’s Handatlas, 8th edition, 1924, published in 1930