A Visit from St. Nicholas | Christian Lasval, Brian Gottstein & John Popp

Heritage Explains

Heritage Podcast Network

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4.6 • 808 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from your friends at the Heritage Foundation! This week, we bring you a classic of the Christmas season.

“A Visit from St. Nicholas” was composed by New York writer and businessman Clement Clark Moore in 1823. Now over 200 hundred years old, it remains one of the most well-known and iconic American poems ever. It established many key characteristics of Santa Claus as we know him today. Prior to Moore’s poem, St. Nicholas (or in the Dutch, Sinterklaas) enjoyed his jolly, gift-giving reputation primarily among Dutch immigrants. Moore embellished the historical bishop with a sleigh, reindeer, white beard, chimney-diving ability, and the Santa-esque physique we all know and love.

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0:45.3	Music This is Heritage Explains. Christmas Week has Christmas Week has arrived. And from all your friends here at the Heritage Foundation,
0:49.3	we wish you a Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and a prosperous new year.
0:53.3	It's been a momentous year for
0:56.5	our country. There is much to look back on and much to look forward to. So we thought that for
1:01.8	this special Christmas edition of Heritage Explains, we would take a step back from our regular
1:06.3	programming and bring you a classic of the Christmas season. A visit from St. Nicholas was composed by New York writer and businessman Clement Clark Moore in 1823.
1:17.9	Now over 200 years old, it remains one of the most well-known and iconic American poems ever composed.
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