Tag: Christmas

• Pictures from Santa’s Wonderland in College Station

  

  For my website’s first travel story, here are some pics I took while my family and I visited Santa’s Wonderland over the Christmas holiday. Santa’s Wonderland opened in 1998 as a drive-thru Christmas lights experience located just north of Navasota, TX. Over the years, it has evolved into one of Texas’ most beloved Christmas experiences…

  Joe Thompson, PhD

  4 Jan 2019

  Christmas, travel

  Christmas, history, holiday, travel

• Happy New Year Friends!

  Joe Thompson, PhD

  31 Dec 2018

  baseball, Baseball History, basketball, Book Summaries for Comps, Fiction, football, Halloween, history, sports, Uncategorized

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• Christmas Carol, Staves 4&5

  

  STAVE  FOUR. THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS. The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently, approached.When it came near him, Scrooge bent down upon his knee; for in the very airthrough which this Spirit moved it seemed to scatter gloom and mystery. It was shrouded in a deep black garment, whichconcealed its head, its face, its form, and…

  Joe Thompson, PhD

  26 Dec 2018

  Fiction, history

  books, carol, Charles dickens, Christmas, Christmas Carol, dickens, England, fiction, history, London