{"id":58796,"date":"2014-12-17T13:43:56","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T18:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=58796"},"modified":"2014-12-17T13:43:56","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T18:43:56","slug":"an-old-fashioned-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2014\/12\/17\/an-old-fashioned-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"An old-fashioned Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>By Douglas H. Heckler<\/b><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_58797\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58797\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58797 \" style=\"border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" alt=\"A young audience member at the St. Mary of the Assumption School performance of \u201cAn Old Fashioned Christmas\u201d moves himself to the center aisle for better view of the production. (Photo submitted.)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/boy-in-aisle.jpg\" width=\"330\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/boy-in-aisle.jpg 330w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/boy-in-aisle-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-58797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young audience member at the St. Mary of the Assumption School performance of \u201cAn Old Fashioned Christmas\u201d moves himself to the center aisle for better view of the production. (Photo submitted.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Sunday, I had the opportunity to spend \u201cAn Old Fashioned Christmas\u201d with the voices of the St. Mary of the Assumption School student body.<\/p>\n<p>This musical presentation offered the mix of children\u2019s voices in renditions of \u00a0\u201cDeck the Halls\u201d, \u201cO Christmas Tree\u201d, \u201c Angels We Have Heard on High\u201d, \u201cJoy to the World\u201d, \u201c Jingle Bells\u201d,\u00a0 and one tune I STILL cannot get out of my head\u2026 \u201cI Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Even Santa, in the form of a student, made an appearance during the performance of \u00a0\u201cSanta Claus\u201d. As the finale, the lower grades came down off stage and offered further musical arrangements culminating in \u201cSilent Night\u201d as the curtain was drawn back on a scene taking us back to Bethlehem and a small stable at the edge of town, where a child is born.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Erin Stokes (who has taken over the musical direction and education for the school) and accompanied on the piano by Kathy Stewart, this event was very well attended as even the \u201cmedia\u201d bench was re-apportioned for guests and family members. Even Fr. Stan was part of the \u201cstanding room only\u201d crowd.\u00a0 A big thank you goes out to all who participated in adding to our enjoyment of the Holiday Season.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_58798\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58798\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58798 \" style=\"border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;\" alt=\"The final scene in St. Mary\u2019s annual Christmas pageant takes us back to Bethlehem, where it all began. (Photo submitted.)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/pageant.jpg\" width=\"330\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-58798\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The final scene in St. Mary\u2019s annual Christmas pageant takes us back to Bethlehem, where it all began. (Photo submitted.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Douglas H. Heckler On Sunday, I had the opportunity to spend \u201cAn Old Fashioned Christmas\u201d with the voices of the St. Mary of the Assumption School student body. This musical presentation offered the mix of children\u2019s voices in renditions of \u00a0\u201cDeck the Halls\u201d, \u201cO Christmas Tree\u201d, \u201c Angels We Have Heard on High\u201d, \u201cJoy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stmaryscolumn"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 10:11:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}