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		Christmas -- New Brunswick -- Miramichi River Valley.
		Christmas -- Atlantic Provinces.
		Christmas stories, Canadian -- Atlantic Provinces.
		Authors, Canadian -- 20th century -- Biography.
		Miramichi River Valley (N.B.) -- Biography.
		Atlantic Provinces -- Social life and customs.

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Sleigh tracks in new snow : Maritime Christmas stories / Wayne Curtis.

by Curtis, Wayne, 1943-

Pottersfield Press, 2014.

Curtis, Wayne, 1943- -- Childhood and youth.

Christmas -- New Brunswick -- Miramichi River Valley.

Christmas -- Atlantic Provinces.

Christmas stories, Canadian -- Atlantic Provinces.

Authors, Canadian -- 20th century -- Biography.

Miramichi River Valley (N.B.) -- Biography.

Atlantic Provinces -- Social life and customs.

9781897426586 (pbk.)

160 p. ; 22 cm.

"A collection of Christmas stories set mostly in rural New Brunswick -- principally the Miramichi Region -- in a bygone day and age. The stories range from the early 1950s to the 21st century, as Curtis recounts the sweet old Christmases of his boyhood and more modern incarnations of the holiday. Curtis honours the deeply held traditions and rituals that made celebrating Christmas such a special time for his family and community. During the author's childhood, Christmas meant sleigh rides with horses and jingling harness bells, fresh cut forest Christmas trees and intense blizzards that blocked all roads for days. Winter in a rural community required hardiness, generosity, and sacrifice, qualities that were intensified during the Christmas season. Curtis tells how a grandmother sacrificed to ensure a happy celebration for her family, about the arrival of his sister while he and his father searched the woods for a beautiful fir tree to be trimmed in their farmhouse parlour, and the efforts of a prodigal son to get home for Christmas after years of absence. The holiday season also included the magic of skating on a frozen river with a bonfire of burning cattails, the excitement of the school concert, and the solemnity of a church service. These stories reflect an innocent time when truth, heart and honesty were always central to the celebration of Christmas. Wayne Curtis was born in Keenan, New Brunswick, in 1943. He was educated in the local schoolhouse and at St Thomas University. He divides his time between his cabin on the Miramichi and Fredericton. This is his sixteenth book"--Provided by publisher.

Christmas stories.

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