CHRISTMAS IN MIKADO

by Lloyd L. Streeter Christmas around Mikado produced some memorable experiences. The Mikado Goodfellows Club always had a Christmas party at the town hall, and the place was always packed with people. The town hall was a large round-top structure that looked like a...

A SIDELIGHT

By Lloyd L. Streeter Here is an interesting sidelight to the story of Longfellow’s I HEARD THE BELLS ON CHRISTMAS DAY. Most people have heard about how the song came to be written, about how depressed Henry Longfellow was when he wrote it. His wife had died...