Christmas Past, Christmas Presence
Well, here we are again. The holiday looms and tension increases as we work out schedules and menus and invitations and greeting cards and gift lists. We methodically create and check off our to-do list. As always we harbor the belief that when the last item is complete, Peace will arrive punctually at the front door. And this being the season for it, Peace really ought to have Joy alongside. Full Story
Sifting Through the Sands of Time from the Courier Archives
80 Years Ago Jan. 2 1, 1930
Putnam not being an industrial county its citizens do not take the personal interest in the tariff laws that they should. It is of vital interest to the homes and its people for it effects their daily lives in that it effects the cost of living to every man, woman and child while it adds but little, if anything, to their incomes either in wages or salaries. Full Story
‘The Gift of the Magi’
Part Two of Two
W ithin forty minutes her head was covered with tiny, close-lying curls that made her look wonderfully like a truant schoolboy. She looked at her reflection in the mirror long, carefully, and critically. Full Story
The Night Before Christmas
’ T was the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads; Full Story
‘Silent Night’: A History
‘The hymn “Silent Night” was written on the day before Christmas, 1818, in Oberndorf, a tiny village in the Bavarian mountains that had been cut off from the rest of the world by a severe blizzard. Preparing for Christmas, the denizens discovered with dismay that the church organ was not working. Full Story
Taking Putnam on a Culinary Journey
Gary Zuza and Executive Chef Richard Parente have been expanding Putnam’s palate while also expanding their restaurant, Sentrista Grill, located in the Clock Tower Commons in Brewster. Full Story
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