[Magdalen] Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

[Charles Wohlers]

Hmmm - our family did also. And it indeed was lead foil. Every Christmas 
there was just a little bit less than the previous, and, by the time I had 
left home, there was hardly any at all. Needless to say, I'm sure you can't 
get it now.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: Grace Cangialosi
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 5:07 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

Actually, it was made of lead, and my mother saved it from year to year, as 
well. We had to put it on one strand at a time, from the insides of the 
branches to the tips, and then remove it in reverse, still one strand at a 
time, and put it back in the boxes.
The tree would be a shimmering wonder, but I could never understand why 
there was so much tinsel, since it made it hard to see the ornaments...

I HATED putting tinsel on the tree!  Haven't done it for at least 40 years!

> On Dec 23, 2014, at 4:45 PM, Jon Egger <revegger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> One of the odd things my mother did when we were kids in the 1960s (she
> died Christmas morning in 2010) was to save the tinsel that she hung on 
> the
> tree.  She felt a Christmas Tree wasn't a true tree unless it had tinsel 
> on
> it.  I wonder if, her being a child of the depression, made her save
> things...but tinsel?  That must have been made of gold, not silver.
>
> +++
> Grace & peace,
> jon
>
>
>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Lesley de Voil <lesleymdv at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/24/14, Joseph Cirou <romanos at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>> Jim,
>>>
>>> Your listgiv arrived today. Thanks very much. I loved the card (which is
>>> described elsewhere) and will enjoy the cd from St. Bartholomew's
>>>
>>> Joe
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> From: Joseph Cirou
>>>>
>>>> About the only thing like that that I had was the crib my father
>> started
>>>>> to
>>>>
>>>> There was the story about the Michigan relatives in a Dutch Reform
>> Church
>>>> that had never previously decorated nor set up a creche.
>>>>
>>>> And when their new Pastor decided they needed one and asked for a crib,
>>>> the cousins were puzzled but dutifully dismantled (to get through the
>>>> door)
>>>> and re-assembled a corn crib.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Jim Guthrie
>>