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Though they feel they belong, they carry traditions from Oberammergau in the Bavarian Alps, especially in how they prepare their crèche and Christmas tree. 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kept overtime.  \nNo books will be issued to persons inarrears for fines.Books must notbeloaned by theborrower.  \nCareful usage of books is expected,and any soiling,injury,or loss is to be paid for by the borrower.  \n8anta Clara County Free Librar  \nSanJose,Calif.WITHDRmC  \ngong(htstmasg  \n.  \n—  \n100  \ne 1ong unriStmas eve /  \n54.  \nWITHDRWN  \n305216377386  \n*  \n10/14/08  \nBy  \nELIZABETH DURYEA  \nwitt Tictues By LISL WEIL  \nTHDRAWN  \n1954  \nHOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON  \nThe Riverside Press Cambridge  \n*  \nSanta Clara County Free LIbrarySan Jose,Calif.  \n285034  \nor the twins,Maria and Karl,Christmas Eve onBeacon Hill was full of voices:the talking voices ofpeople moving up and down the steep narrow streets,calling out greetings to one another;the singing voicesof groups of carolers stopping before candlelit windowsand bright doorways to sing;the voices of bells in thesteeples and towers of churches.It was the high momentof the year.  \nThe twins had lived on Beacon Hill in Boston all theirlives,nearly twelve years,and had come to think of them-selves as belonging there as completely as the childrenwhose families had lived in the neighborhood for genera-tions.But their father and mother did not feel that way.They had not been born in America but had come theyear they were married from Oberammergau,the beauti-ful mountain village in the Bavarian Alps.They wereAmericans now and full of a deep love for their newcountry,but they never let Maria and Karl,or even three-year-old Toni,forget that they had brought with themmany age-old customs that had been observed in theirfamilies for generations.  \nChristmas was the time when they recalled such thingsespecially.They tried to combine the way they had beenbrought up to celebrate it with the new customs they hadlearned in America.The twins thought that no familyon Beacon Hill had so wonderful a Christmas as theirs.  \nThey always set up their crèche on the afternoon ofChristmas Eve,when they trimmed the tree.This crèche  \nSanta Clará County Free LIbrarySan Jose,Calif.285034  \n1  \nhad come from Oberammergau and was particularlyprecious because most of the figures had been carvedby the twins’own grandfather.It had been a farewellpresent when Lisa and Bartl had set out to establish ahome in a new land.One of the lambs and a shepherdhad been made by Bartl himself who,like many Oberam-mergau boys,had been taught to carve by his father.They put the wide low manger with a thatched roof inthe bay window which jutted out over the sidewalkat the right of the front door.It was lighted with smallcleverly hidden spotlights and behind it hung a darkblue velvet curtain.  \nThe custom had grown up in the last few years forBartl and the twins,all wearing red woolen caps andscarves and mittens which the children's grandmotherin Oberammergau had knitted,to go out when the crècheand tree were finished and do the rounds of the streets.Toni was still too young to go and Mother was usuallyglad to have a chance to do some secret last-minutethings when nobody was around.The route was alwaysthe same:up and down each side of Chestnut Street,where they lived,and then Mt.Vernon Street and Pinck-ney Street and around the little iron-fenced park inLouisburg Square.On these streets almost all the housesstood close to the sidewalks,and often the crèches inthe windows would come exactly at the level of Maria'sand Karl's eyes.Some were even so low that a small childwithout standing on tiptoe could see the figures inside.  \nThis year it had snowed all the day before and partof that morning,but now a clear starlit sky stretchedabove the steep streets and the air was sharp as Fatherand the twins set off up the hill.Best of all,one's feet","cbCaivRWXPbETJD2","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivRWXPbETJD2","pdf",3511368,56,"English","# Santa Clara County Free Library Notice\n## Christmas Eve on Beacon Hill\n## Maria and Karl’s Family Background\n## The Oberammergau Crèche Custom\n## 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