No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever.
A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay,
ten times ten thousand years from now,
he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

"I will honour Christmas in my heart,
and try to keep it all the year."

Read Charles Dickens' complete text from 1843

WTF?

Despite a sluggish economy and low inflation,
the 2011 PNC Christmas Price Index® rose 3.5 percent
in the whimsical economic analysis by PNC Wealth Management
based on the gifts in the holiday song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas."

Winter Solstice
December 22, 2011
12:30 a.m. EST

FDR confuses the Nation in 1939 by declaring
Thanksgiving will be celebrated a week early
to extend the Christmas shopping season.

Thanksgiving 2011

A harsh Winter ahead?

October 31, 2011

Betty Grable - 1933

Get over it before Winter...

It's not the weather...

New Postage Rates

First-Class Letters: 45 cents
Post Cards: 32 cents

United States Post Office
1775 - ?

Rough weather ahead

December 7, 1941

Try again...

...and it didn't catch fire.

1925 Thinking Cap

Nevermind the weather

April 19, 1976 - September 11, 2001

September 11

August 26 - September 9, 2011

Hurricane IRENE - August 2011

An Earthquake, then a Hurricane...
What's next? Locusts?

Washington and Lee University Seismograph
Lexington, VA   1:51pm EDT

The last quake of equal power to strike
the East Coast was in New York in 1944.
The largest East Coast quake on record
was a 7.3 that hit South Carolina in 1886.