Christmas Remembered

Ben Logan

MBI Publishing Company, Aug 6, 2010 - Antiques & Collectibles - 208 pages

Ben Logan won the hearts of readers the world over with his 1975 memoir, The Land Remembers. He returns to the farmland of his youth in Christmas Remembered, a loving tribute to holiday rituals and the people who make them happen: people like his mother, who was married on Christmas Day, and people like his wife, who brought her own traditions from the mountains of Mexico. “Rituals do not persist simply because they may possess a magical power from outside us,” Logan tells us. “They live because they touch something inside us that is wanting and waiting to come out and express itself.”

 

With a new foreword by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, Christmas Remembered will make you laugh and cry—and grow nostalgic for your own holiday seasons past.

About the author

Born in 1920, Ben Logan grew up in the farmland country of southwestern Wisconsin. His memoir,The Land Remembers, was published in 1975 to critical acclaim and has sold nearly half a million copies. He speaks of remaining rooted in the land of his boyhood, even though “I have been a wanderer.” Logan traveled throughout the world and worked many years as a writer, producer, and teacher in New York. In 1954, he married Jacqueline Stoner, with whom he had three children. In 1986, Logan returned to the home farm in Gays Mills, Wisconsin, where he lives today.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Christmas Remembered
• Author: Ben Logan
• Contributor: Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
• Publisher: MBI Publishing Company, 2010
• ISBN: 1610602706, 9781610602709
• Length: 208 pages
• Subjects: Antiques & Collectibles / Americana