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Holly Making for Story on Fruitland Market Featured Photo
Fruitland’s Accidental Auctioneer: A Christmas Holly Tale CharactersWay Back Machine

Fruitland’s Accidental Auctioneer: A Christmas Holly Tale

NOTE: This is an excerpt from my book, You Wouldn't Believe! 44 Strange and Wondrous Delmarva Tales. Find out more about that (and my other books) here. Another chapter in this book, “When Delaware Delivered the ‘True Spirit of Christmas,’” tells the story of how the seasonal holly wreath industry took off in the late 1800s and early 1900s, starting in Southern Delaware and then…
December 13, 2021
Holly Wreath Memories in Virginia Featured Photos
The Holly-Wreath Traditon: Memories from Atlantic, Va. CharactersWay Back Machine

The Holly-Wreath Traditon: Memories from Atlantic, Va.

Back in 2004 the writer Brice Stump made the most of a priceless opportunity. While working for the Salisbury Daily Times, he got to join a pair of elderly siblings from Atlantic, Va. as they relived old family memories by sitting around the kitchen table and making a holly wreath in the old-school way. Norman Davis, then 85, and Leuvenia Watson, then 84, had spent…
November 25, 2020