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Yes, Virginia, there is a small-town American Christmas (or, we find newts in the toilet and Santa is exposed.)

My village, Otter Creek, has an annual Christmas gathering that is part comedy of errors and part a magical suspension of time and personal differences. It is held in the former church, which has lofty ceilings, beadboard walls with old crackly varnish, long windows with colored glass fanlights, and it feels like Christmas even in […]