“I’m dreaming of a white ChristmasJust like the ones I used to knowWhere the treetops glistenAnd children listenTo hear sleigh bells in the snow, oh, the snow” — Irving Berlin Why do so many people hope for a white Christmas, “just like the ones I used to know?” Blame song writers like Irving Berlin. Crooners […]
Norman Rockwell
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Hope for us all: Norman Rockwell’s 4 Freedoms
Editor’s Note: This story was originally published by the Ohio History Connection on Nov. 25, 2016. It’s being republished here via a collaborative agreement. In 1941, while war raged in Europe, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered a speech to Congress, “present[ing] a vision in which the American ideals of individual liberties were extended throughout the […]