Word: wreath
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Louisa Solano, owner of the Grolier Poetry Book Shop Inc., 6 Plympton St., said she hung a 48-inch wreath valued at $250 outside her store earlier this week. She went home at 10 p.m. Thursday, and the wreath was nowhere to be seen when she returned at 8 a.m. yesterday...
Solano said her wreath was quite heavy and required the help of two grown men, standing upon ladders, to assemble...
...inch wreath worth $50, which was hanging in the doorway of the Starr Book Shop, 29 Plympton St., was also stolen...
...feel frustrated. My culture is represented, but my faith is not. I am willing to see a Christmas tree removed if one or two people don't particularly like it. I would not be willing to remove a hanukkiah, and I feel the same about a creche or Advent wreath. Religious expressions deserve special protection...
...funds paying for, I'll be the Grinch, Scrooge or other secular symbol of Christmas-bashing and suggest it's time to take the trees down. If we are serious about sharing religion and learning from each other, I am ready to light the pink candle of an Advent wreath next Sunday and explain the religious significance and celebrations of the Christmas season...