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Bret Harte wrote, “The Luck of Roaring Camp.” Roar- ing Camp is a mining town circa 1900 that had drunks, hoodlums, miners, cussing, and on and on. There was one woman in the camp but she dies giving birth to a little girl. Now suddenly those men have a baby on their hands. They don’t know what to do. They get some rags and wrap her up – swaddling clothes made of rags. They put her in a box. It doesn’t look right.
Because it doesn’t look right they send a man 80 miles west to a town and he comes back with a cradle made of rosewood. They put that ragged baby in the cradle. But it doesn’t look right.
This time it is to Sacramento they send a fella. He comes back with a silk blanket. So they bundle that baby into it and put her into the cradle. But something again isn’t quite right.
The oor is so lthy. They all get out buckets and mops and scrub the oor. Then they notice now that the oor is clean how dirty the walls are. The next day they clean the walls. Then the windows. Those get cleaned. Then those windows ought to have curtains. And on and on.
What do they do when it is time to go to work? They take the baby in the cradle and set her outside the mineshaft. But that entrance seems so dreary. Someone plants owers. They bloom. To entertain the baby they bring up all the colored and shiny stones. As they give them to her they see their hands are dirty. So they start cleaning up and the gen- eral store is actually selling for the rst time items like soap and cologne.
Do you see? The baby changes everything! There’s a baby who came at Christmas long ago and he changes ev- erything. Come to your church this December and nd out about him. If you don’t have a church, come to ours. We’ll enjoyHimtogether. SS
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has since found time to support many worthwhile causes and campaigned for mental health awareness and for victims of violent crime. And since her 1967 trip to Vietnam entertain the troops has remained especially close to the military veteran she calls “the real heroes.”
Happily living now in Florida for some 20 years (her home was spared damage from devastating hur- ricane Irma), she is now retired from performing.
“I no longer do concerts because I just can’t sing as well as I used to,” she says. “I would never want to disappoint the fans who have been so good to me throughout my life.”
Nick Thomas teaches at Auburn University at Montgomery, Ala, and has written features, columns, and interviews for over 650 newspapers and maga- zines. SS
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