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New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Chiaverini celebrates Xmas previous and present with a wondrous book encouraged by the traditional poem "Xmas Bells" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I read the bells on Xmas Day / Their old familiar carols play / And outrageous and sweet / The words duplicate / Of peace on the planet, good-will to men! In 1860 the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow family celebrated Xmas at Craigie House, their house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The publication of Longfellow's traditional Revolutionary Conflict poem, "Paul Revere's Ride", was significantly less than a month hence, and the country's grave politics unrest weighed greatly on his mind. Yet along with his beloved better half, Fanny, and their five adored children at his aspect, the delights of the season prevailed. In present-day Boston, a passionate educator in the Watertown general population institution system is stunned by somber vacation tidings. Sophia's music program has been sacrificed to budget slashes, and she fears not only about her impending unemployment but also about the consequences to her underprivileged students. At the chapel where she volunteers as music director, Sophia will try to neglect her cares as she leads the children's choir in rehearsal for a Xmas Eve concert. Motivated to honor an area artist, Sophia has chosen a carol place to a poem by Longfellow, changed by the glorious words he penned one Xmas Day way back when, even while he endured great damage. Xmas Bells chronicles the happenings of 1863, when the peace and contentment of Longfellow's family circle was instantly, tragically broken, slicing even deeper than the privations of wartime. Throughout the pain of profound damage and hardship, Longfellow's patriotism never failed, nor did the energy of his words. "Christmas Bells", the poem he wrote that vacation, lives on, spoken as verse and sung as a hymn.
