Word: carolling
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Around this time every year, the Congregational church in my village holds a carol sing. Although mine is a secular family, we have felt a proprietary affection for our spare white church since my brother and I were small and hailed the bronze weathercock atop the steeple with “Cock-a-doodle-do, Rooster” every time we drove by. When it is lit up for the carol sing the windows glow yellow and the Rooster Church looks too perfect to be real, like a miniature church with a light bulb inside bought to accompany an electric...
Inside, the carols sound improbably beautiful; I have never been able to understand how a bunch of people without much musical talent individually can sound so good singing together. By some trick of the lighting or of my imagination, everyone looks as beatifically illuminated as the delighted magi in Renaissance paintings. Through the north-facing windows you can see Christmas lights twinkling on the blue spruce across the street that in the daytime shades the plaque commemorating the young men my village has lost in every war since the Revolution. And although I haven’t gone...
...place the song until I step out into the December chill and realize with a start that the song was “What Child Is This?” rendered unrecognizeable by the warbling of a female vocalist. And I will try unsuccessfully to reconcile this Christmas carol with the Christmas carol of the same name and roughly the same tune that I have sung in the Rooster Church. It is a horrible shock, like recognizing the features of a grade school friend behind the heavy makeup of one of those young women who loiters in the mall food...
...Carol Madeiros, in town from upstate New York to visit her sister, watched as her children, Ashley, 4, and Taylor, 3, messily squeezed icing on their gingerbread cookie and covered it in chocolates and gum drops...
...born comedian and actor who played, with hilarious but heartbreaking pungency, the perfect small-town sap in two classic 1944 Preston Sturges comedies, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek and Hail the Conquering Hero; in Montclair, N.J. His 70-year show-biz career included a Tony-nominated stint opposite Carol Channing in Broadway's Hello, Dolly!; a recurring guest role on TV's The Golden Girls; and appearances in the films National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) and Rookie of the Year...