Monday, December 30, 2024

The Christmas Experts

If you want to know nearly everything
there is to know about the history of Christmas,
these are the books for you.


Stephen Nissenbaum (b 1941)
American scholar & History Professor
Author of The Battle for Christmas

John "Jock" Elliott
Advertising executive & Christmas Collector
Author of Inventing Christmas
January 25, 1921 - October 29, 2005

George D. Meredith
Influential Ad Man & Christmas Collector
Author of When what to my wondering eyes . . .
August 7, 1940 - January 5, 2023

Further reading on
Nissenbaum ~ Elliott & Meredith ~ Facebook

A Closing Note on Christmas Cards
Rutger Bregman: "Typically our social circles number no more than about one hundred and fifty people. Scientists arrived at this limit in the 1990s, when two American researchers asked a group of volunteers to list all the friends and family to whom they sent Christmas cards. The average was sixty - eight households, comprising some one hundred and fifty individuals." (232)
~from Humankind: A Hopeful History

Oddly, it's true! The stats don't lie!
That's exactly how many cards I send!

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