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Watch – ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’

Watch – ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’

By Bob Plain on December 25, 2012

This is my Christmas present to everyone who has ever been overcome by stress during the holiday season and also to all the progressives who works so hard at making Rhode Island a better place. George Bailey got the holiday blues too, and he even doubted his own tremendously beneficial influence on Bedford Falls. Happy [...]

Posted in Events | Tagged christmas, george bailey, it's a wonerful life, mr potter | 2 Responses

Anti Corporate Greed Christmas Fiction Genre

Anti Corporate Greed Christmas Fiction Genre

By Bob Plain on December 21, 2012

Christmas may often get clouded by commercialism, but the holiday’s most popular works of fiction clearly extol the opposite virtue. The most obvious and popular example is Charles Dickens’ classic “A Christmas Carol.” It not only gave birth to Christmas fiction genre, it also gave birth to the sub-genre of anti-corporate-greed-themed Christmas fiction. Ebenezer Scrooge [...]

Posted in Events, Featured | Tagged a christmas carol, christmas, george bailey, grinch, it's a wonderful life, mr potter, scrooge, trading places | 1 Response

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