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Granny Waggener and Christmases past

Christmas memories collection by Ed Waggener, 2015

Granny Waggener had little in material things. She had a big peppermint stick she carried from child's house to child's house to share with grandchildren.

That and wonderful stories to fascinate three little boys - Ralph Roy, Bobby Chelf, and me - about the huge catfish caught at Milltown, about hoop snakes and glass snakes, about how terrible Mickey, the next door cat was, when he raided the baby jay's nest in "her" maple tree, which she could look down on from her second story room.

She was so precious to the younger ones in our family, because she was the only grandparent we knew. My Chelf grandparents Lee Roy Chelf and Annetta (Nettie) Spurling Chelf, and my grandfather R. A. Waggener, were gone before we were born. Ed collected A Columbia Magazine Christmas Story Anthology for a read-aloud time of memories.




This story was posted on 2023-12-26 20:12:34
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