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Who Wrote 'Twas the Night Before Christmas? A Literary Debate.
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April 10, 2007 |
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Immersed in the Christmas season and living in New York, I have taken it upon myself to engage in the typical Big Apple holiday tasks such as viewing the windows at Macy's, gazing at the luminous Rockefeller Center tree and ice skating in the park. As we are all travelers each holiday season, whether to Bethlehem, PA to bask in the spiritual lights or far away to Lapland to feed the reindeer and explore Santa's workshop in Rovaniemi, Finland, we know that A Visit from St. Nicholas, a.k.a. 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, remains a poem read
to little ones every Christmas Eve all over the United States. The presumed author is Clement Clarke Moore, a wealthy professor and poet from New York City.
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