US Edition'Twas the night before Christmas
This Christmas poem by Pamela Ohrt highlights multiple Northeast Iowa towns, creatively linking local communities through festive holiday imagery.
- Adapting 'Twas the night before Christmas,' Pamela Ohrt wrote at KOEL AM Radio in Oelwein, invoking towns from Rudd to Waukon and depicting Santa in a sleigh built in Gunder.
- The poem lists Dysart, Denver, Preston and Vinton, and traces movement across Chester, Cresco, Donnan and Bankston, describing travel from porch to Westgate, Fairbank and Bellevue.
- Specific lines name individualized gifts—a doll for Allison and a quilt for Aunt Elma in Frederika, a train set for Brandon, and kolaches and lefse left in Protivin and Mabel where Santa snacked until satisfied.
- Closing on a cozy note, the verses show Santa departing past Waverly from Dike with twinkling eyes and a red nose in Harpers Ferry, ending with stockings in Traer and children nestled in Lamont.
- Local humor appears in Burr Oak's cold, Greene's slippers, and Oelwein wordplay, finishing with `Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night` as Santa delivers toys through new fallen snow to Bristow and Ryan's beep-beeping toy.
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