Georja Skinner

The Christmas House (eBook, ePUB)

How One Man's Dream Changed the Way We Celebrate Christmas

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In 1934, twenty-two-year-old George Skinner was stricken with polio and confined to an iron lung in the polio ward of Los Angeles County General Hospital. Regular visits from his father, Albert, and the outpouring of support from his neighbors and community kept him going as he struggled to heal. Determined to walk again and recover from this horrible disease, he vowed that when he left the hospital he would create something to thank his community and to repay their kindness; he would create something called the Christmas House. In the midst of the Great Depression, in 1936, those dreams came true. George left the hospital and began building an elaborate outdoor display with his father. Newspapers sent photographers; the local American Legion Post donated time and supplies; churches provided choirs and contributed food; but most of all, children and adults came to experience the first house ever decorated with elaborate outdoor holiday displays and to bask in the true spirit of Christmas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New World Library
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781608682089
• Artikelnr.: 37931517

Autorenporträt

?Georja Skinner is a native of Hollywood, California, and president of Skinner Entertainment, a management and production firm with offices in Hawaii and North Hollywood. She was the first female sound mixer in network television on shows such as All in the Family and The Jeffersons, and she was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1977 and 1978 for tape-sound mixing. Skinner is currently on the "twenty-fifth year of her three-week vacation" in Hawaii. She established Maui's first film office in 1994 and prior to that time, she established and ran a successful public relations firm from 1983 until 1990, when her company was acquired by WPP Group's Hill and Knowlton-Communications Pacific. Skinner currently resides in Napili, Maui. She considers the culture and beauty of Hawaii to be an integral part of her creative process. Skinner's next project is a documentary based on The Christmas House story.