Search This Blog

Friday, November 23, 2007

REMEMBERING THAT BLACK SALVATION ARMY KETTLE

When I was a boy, Mom Glover would take me into town to do some bill paying and shopping for Christmas on our extemely limited Glover household budget. One enduring memory is seeing Santa Claus at State and Broad Streets, bell in hand, standing next to that triangular tripod with the big black kettle. "Help the poor...Help the poor...help a poor family have a Merry Christmas..."

No comments: