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My Nativity Story: John Donnely
The following are photos and a video of an attempt at a Nacimiento scene that I have put up yearly in the garage. I reside in Southern...
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15, 2022
- 2 min
Moore Methodist Museum inherits the Upper Room Nativities!
Interview with Cindy Angelich - Neil Allen reporting Neil: I was excited to receive the news about the Upper Room collection moving to...
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15, 2022
- 2 min
The Orphan Box
When you start collecting a large number of nativities (more than 50 sets) it will happen soon enough - pieces will go missing. Last...
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15, 2022
- 2 min
My Nativity Story: James Johnston
My first recollection of seeing a nativity scene, was as a very young child in the Corpus Christi Cathedral. My Mother took me to see...
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15, 2022
- 3 min
My Nativity Story: Michele Devitt
I received my first nativity while in college; my parents sent a set from Hawaii where I was raised. It has a coconut hut stable and all...
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15, 2022
- 1 min
Nativity Pandemic Effect : Helen Holder
Who would have thought it would be hard to set up fewer sets than the 950 I usually set up? Just like most of 2020 there was a lot of...
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15, 2022
- 1 min
My Nativity Story: Janice McDowell
I had always loved Nativities. One of these images is the ceramic ornaments we put on our tree when I was a child. I always begged to...
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15, 2022
- 1 min
My Nativity Story: Hans Neiderstrasser
It is our family collection for over 70 years. 95% of the figures are from Mexico, and the rest are from Brazil and France. On my wife's...
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15, 2022
- 2 min
My Nativity: Teri Groff tells her story
I started collecting in 1951. I was give a wonderful Baby Jesus and then started the endless search for figures to enhance the telling...
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15, 2022
- 1 min
Angels From the Realms of Glory
Margo Dixon shares her love of angles. 'Tis the season when the Angel Tree at the Met in NYC is usually set up. Seeing it being placed in...
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15, 2022
- 1 min
Link for Helen Holder's Recent Home Tour
Thanks to the Mower County Historical Society for making this Facebook live video also available on YouTube. Note to self: People can...
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15, 2022
- 2 min
Great Idea From a Creche Lover
Carol Waldo writes: This year I had the idea to drop an anonymous Christmas card at the door of people who display a nativity in their...
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15, 2022
- 2 min
Pandemic Era Displays
Following up on a previous conversation about how Covid-19 has affected displays open to the public, our board members responded. ith...
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15, 2022
- 2 min
Something New
(Made by the Children's Sunday school Class) It’s been more than 20 years now, but I can still see the little girl that stood in awe...
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15, 2022
- 1 min
Letters of Love
Here's just one of the many positive notes from our membership regarding the 2020 first Annual Meeting via zoom. This note from a long...
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15, 2022
- 2 min
Sue Parker's Collection
After the devastating fire that totally destroyed one of the collections we had planned to use at the Portland Convention next year, Sue...
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15, 2022
- 1 min
Board Meeting Bullet Points
17 members of the board were present. Marguerite Sullivan was welcomed as a new member 2. A committee was formed to look at revising...
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15, 2022
- 3 min
An Important Conversation - 30 year in the Making
An Important Conversation Me (Neil Allen Webmaster FOTC) : Hey, some day I want to do a blog on our Friends of the Creche page about your...
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15, 2022
- 1 min
Wood Tartan
I found a lady who lives in Scotland who makes nativity sets customized with family tartans. I wrote to her and said I wanted a set...
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Neil Allen
- Mar 15, 2022
- 3 min
About our FOTC Board
Perhaps you wonder (I always did) about our Friends of the Creche Organization? How it came to be (I knew most of it), or what a Board...
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