Author: Ray Lenarcic

By Ray Lenarcic It doesn’t seem possible that 45 years have passed since the death of Ed Juteau, Jr. For those who may have forgotten and the generation too young to remember, Juteau was the Vietnam veteran who went to war...

By Ray Lenarcic Anyone who reads a biography of the late, great Charles Dickens will learn what motivated him to write that all-time classic-A Christmas Carol. He grew up in a lower-middle-class family, and after his father was...

By Ray Lenarcic Many years ago, civil war ravaged a small, mountainous country. As Christmas day drew near, only those villages isolated in valleys located in the steepest mountains had escaped total economic devastation. But...

By Ray Lenarcic The Evergreen Orphanage for Boys was a three-storied ramshackle eye-sore of a building located just outside the mountain village of Zugerand. Originally intended to accommodate 200 orphans, by the early 19th...

By Ray Lenarcic During the last years of the Revolutionary War, in one of our colonies, a young boy named Jebediah (Jeb from here on) became lost in a heavily wooded area near his home. It was mid-December, and he had ventured...