Christmas in July June

I went back to Book Nook this morning to get the Eric Sloane book and just happened to turned around where they kept the VHS Christmas material. I was quite happy to find a copy of The Night Before Christmas, which is a late 1960s cartoon that features the voice of Olan Soule (veteran radio performer and also the voice of the father in Disney's The Small One) as Clement C. Moore in this fictionalized account of how the good doctor wrote "A Visit from St. Nicholas." The poem is sung by the Norman Luboff Choir, but it's the arrangement done by Ken Darby for Fibber McGee and Molly on radio in the 1940s.

I also found a Readers Digest produced tape called Christmas Around the World with Perry Como, a 112 minute compilation of six of his classic Christmas specials: Colonial Williamsburg, France, Quebec, Mexico, Austria, and the Holy Land.

So I spent a lovely afternoon watching both tapes and then listening to Christmas music. Schuyler seemed to like it and has been cheeping, chirping, and even giving little scolds all afternoon and evening.