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This Week in Lincolnville: Christmas in the Trenches
..a century ago Mon, 12/21/2020 - 11:15am
A gallery of Shebang photos. What happened to all those wonderful handmade masks? Are they tucked away in barns and attics all over the midcoast?
Photos by Liz Hand
Take a minute and listen to John McCutcheons’s
song “Christmas in the Trenches”. Probably you’ve heard it before, but maybe not. It happened just over 100 years ago, when World War I was devastating France. The story of the Christmas truce held particular meaning for my husband, a connection of sorts for him to the father he never knew.