This is the Audio Edition of “Rest You Merry,” read by me.
This series arrives a week after each essay and is one of the features The Evergreens subscription pays for, along with the Carol Performance Series and the 12 Days of Yuleology. Monthly or annual options, same access. The written essay stays free, as it always will.
“Winter Wonderland” might be the most carefree song of the season, but the lyrics were written from a tuberculosis ward. This Audio Edition follows Richard B. Smith to a sanitarium bed in Scranton in 1934, explains who Parson Brown really was, and shows how the parson in that snowy meadow became a circus clown by 1947.