Story Time: Mr. Dog's Christmas at the Hollow Tree Inn

Christmas Past

Brian Earl

Kids & Family, Society & Culture

4.9 • 791 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Christmas Past is back with the first episode of 2022. We're kicking off the preseason with some good old fashioned story time! This one's for the whole family, so gather round and cozy up...we're heading to the Hollow Tree in for some old fashioned Christmas fun!Buy the Christmas Past Book!The Christmas Past book is available for pre-order today, and releases on November 1. Get it in hardcover, e-book, or audio. And remember...it makes a great gift!AmazonBarnes & NobleBooks-a-MillionIndi...

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Brian, back again for the seventh season of Christmas past.
0:08.5	Seven seasons. It's one of the longest running Christmas podcasts around.
0:13.2	And whether you're back for the seventh season running or just discovering Christmas past this year,
0:18.5	welcome to an all-new lineup of holiday cheer as we convene
0:22.4	this annual family gathering of ours. As in previous years, the main season begins on Thanksgiving
0:28.8	Day and goes all the way to Christmas Day itself. The main season is where I bring you
0:33.7	the fascinating backstories to our favorite Christmas traditions and share your
0:37.6	Christmas memories. Speaking of which, start sending them now. Record yourself speaking on your phone's
0:43.3	voice memo app and send it to Christmas Past podcast at gmail.com. Between now and Thanksgiving is what I like to
0:50.1	call the preseason. You can look forward to a bonus episode like this one about once a week
0:55.4	starting today. And today, I've got something very special to share with you. You know, one of the
1:01.3	most wonderful things about delving into Christmas past is that there's always some surprising
1:05.7	relics just waiting to be discovered. I often encourage people to explore the wonderful world
1:10.7	of old-time radio.
1:12.3	There is a trove of excellent Christmas entertainment just waiting for you there.
1:16.1	The same goes for Christmas literature. For every old Christmas story we still enjoy today,
1:21.7	there are countless others that have been forgotten, but fortunately, not lost. And I'm going to
1:26.8	share one of those very stories with you today. And I'm going to share one of those very stories with
1:28.3	you today, and I'm going to do it with the help of someone who resurrected it. Betsy Cordes
1:33.9	and San Francisco grew up with the story of Mr. Dog, who brings Christmas to his animal
1:38.8	friends at the Hollow Tree Inn. The story was originally published as Christmas at the
1:43.5	Hollow Tree Inn in 1898 by Albert Bigelow Payne,
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