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Wynken, Blynken, and Nod

BY EUGENE FIELD

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night
    Sailed off in a wooden shoe–
Sailed on a river of crystal light,
    Into a sea of dew.
“Where are you going, and what do you wish?”
    The old moon asked of the three.
“We have come to fish for the herring fish
That live in this beautiful sea;
Nets of silver and gold have we!”
                  Said Wynken,
                  Blynken,
                  And Nod.

 

The old moon laughed and sang a song,
    As they rocked in the wooden shoe,
And the wind that sped them all night long
    Ruffled the waves of dew.
The little stars were the herring fish
    That lived in that beautiful sea–
“Now cast your nets wherever you wish–
    Never afeard are we!”
    So cried the stars to the fishermen three:
                  Wynken,
                  Blynken,
                  And Nod.

 

Car of the People

  Literally, the word “volkswagen” means “people’s car. The beginning concept originated with Ferdinand  Porsche in 1930. 

 By 1933 Hitler had met with Porsche to describe his vision of a ‘peoples car’. A top speed of 62 mph ,33 miles to the gallon and the ability

 to carry 5 passengers. At this point the ‘state’ stepped in and bankrolled the development of what would become the VW Beetle. The first demonstrators rolled out in 1939. The preproduction model was called the VW38 as it was manufactured in 1938    When the V38s were introduced, Hitler abruptly changed the name of the car to KdF Wagen. KdF stood for “Kraft durch Freude” which meant“Strength through Joy.” This upset Porsche, as he was not a member of the Nazi party, and he didn’t support Hitler’s use of propaganda when advertising the car.

Santa Lives!

The little town of Leavenworth is situated in the ‘American Alps’,or the North Cascade Mountain Range in Washington State. In the sixties a ‘consultant’  was brought  in  to   develop an identity for the town to make it commercially viable.  And so we have Christmas all year round.