and quickly mutated into a "right jolly old elf" thanks to the 1823 poem "A Visit From St. Nicholas," commonly known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas." By 1890, children could meet live ...

The following are the winning poems from the 2025 Nature in Verse Poetry Contest, held by Seymour Library in partnership with ...

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THE poet Kahlil Gibran said that about trees – but apart from their connections to our souls, trees have a very practical purpose in our lives, as this look at the worth of one reveals: ...

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