Weekend Snapshot: God Bless it!

Actor and writer William Kinsolving read Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" at the Gunn Memorial Library in Washington, Connecticut, on Friday evening. His apt and sensitive rendering of 30 characters in this classic Christmas ghost story was spellbinding. These are two of the library's windows.

"But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time . . . as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!'" (Scrooge's nephew Fred, "A Christmas Carol")

Weekend Snapshot