[Magdalen] Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

I remember that if it fell on the tracks, trains were stopped. It shorted
out the tracks.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Charles Wohlers <
charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:

> 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
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>