Ilsa Minor | Daily Press Even the musical entertainment at the Gladstone Farmers Market was filled with cheer Friday during the Gladstone Old Fashioned Christ
you seen the trends and the themes change over the many administrations? some of them definitely repeat themselves. jackie kennedy said if we re going to have thousands of people over for the holiday, let s put thought into it. she came up with the idea of the theme and then it s progressed over time. mrs. reagan pretty much always had the same theme, an old-fashioned christmas for children. you have mrs. obama who picks these themes that are about the heart of the holiday. she had simple blessings, now we have gather around. we ve seen all sorts of things. lots of times they like to commemorate and remember our military and also children at christmas. those are two things that pop up. mrs. obama is big on honoring our service people. you made an important point there. everybody assumes this. the fact that they live there. yes. probably also allows the exercise of celebrating christmas in the first place. if it were just an office building they wouldn t be able to do any of thi