Michael Whalen - July, 2019
Many of us love, collect, and have a great interest in the nativity tradition. I would like to find out more about when (about what age) and what caused people to have that interest.
Was it someone you knew that had a creche set, one in your local church, a vacation during which a more unusual set got us going on this collecting road etc.? Perhaps it was a gift given to us where we felt obligated to add figures over the years. Please tell me. I am sure some of our other members would be interested to hear as well.
Our parish had this old plaster set with a wooden stable made in Germany. I loved to visit and study it and then determined I needed to have one of my own. That summer my Godfather who bundled newspapers for a living and did carpentry as a sideline agreed to build me this stable which I still have.
The figures were from the local five and dime.
What is your story?
Since it was my idea, I will go first.