Walking the Berkshires (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
... falling, of how "the moon on the breast of the newfallen snow" is one of the loveliest lines in Clement Clarke Moore's classic. Of sledding at night in those wide fields behind the schoolhouse, and what tracks in the snow reveal to my otherwise impotent senses. I like my winters white and cold. I like pond ice that freezes fast and black. I like the way the frost gets in my...
Salt and Pepper (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
We owe much about what we know about the Father Christmas today to the Americans of the 19th Century. In 1822, Clement Clarke Moore described what he imagined Father Christmas to look like in a poem. The poem is often referred to as 'The Night Before Christmas', but originally it was titled 'A Visit from St Nicholas'. He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot, And his...
Appscout.com (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
I thought Google Voice should get a shot at reinterpreting "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" for a new generation. To make it happen, I called my Google Voice number and read Moore's chestnut into the phone.
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
The advocacy on display Monday by "CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric was almost unimaginable. In her "Notebook" video posted at CBSNews.com, Couric read a poem fashioned after Clement Clarke Moore's classic "The Night Before Christmas." Without any regard for hiding her position on healthcare reform legislation currently before Congress, Couric...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Staring down 54th Street from 31st Ave in Woodside, Queens, a street lined with boxy brick apartments and a scant bit of foliage, one would not expect to find one of the oldest cemeteries in New York nestled in amongst the buildings... But there it is, halfway down the block: the Moore-Jackson Cemetery, founded in 1733 (276 years ago) and a rare surviving example of a colonial graveyard in Queens....
Christmas Time (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... of Santa Claus can be traced to the poem, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas,' that was written by Clement Clarke Moore in 1822. In that poem, Moore described St. Nicholas as a jolly fellow who flew from house to house in a sleigh pulled by reindeers and waited for children to go to bed on Christmas Eve before he came down the chimney to deliver Christmas presents for...
