They had never even thought of such a thing as having a penny. Think of having a whole penny for your very own. Think of having a cup and a cake and a stick of candy and a penny.
There never had been such a Christmas.
-- Little House on the Prairie
During the Christmas of 1870, while a semi-fictionalized Laura Ingalls Wilder delighted in a few relatively modest gifts on the prairie, the IRL Johnnie Everett was experiencing a very different holiday back east in Williamstown, New York. As these pages from the Newberry's Everett family papers demonstrate, Christmas in town as a member of a prosperous family of preachers, publishers, doctors, and educators was a much more extravagant affair.
Six-year-old Johnnie received so many presents -- from a gun to a watch to a "pair of wristlets" -- that he appears to have needed to take a five-day break in order to finish listing them all in this thank-you note to his aunt. (The effort required to produce such fancy serif handwriting may also account for some of the delay.)
For more examples of Christmas presents past from the Newberry's modern manuscripts collections, please visit our Holiday Haul story map 🎄🎁🎅
–Jen Wolfe, Digital Scholarship and Outreach Librarian
at last heres a pic of the haul from Sundays game market visit!! it was a lot of fun if very overcrowded lol.
wouldve probably bought more of the expensive stuff if i had more money atm but im very happy with the deals i got. stuff like Samba de Amigo, SEGA Superstars Tennis, Guitar Hero and M&S Olympics were all VERY cheap (like $5 or less). also not pictured is dead rising chop til you drop on wii which was also very cheap. I'm super super excited to finally own OutRun 2 on Xbox as well, its one of the few games I actually got to play for the first time in an arcade and I've dreamt of having an about-as-pretty version of it at home ever since. Coast2Coast wasnt doing it for me!!!
Mario&Sonic at the Olympic Games in particular was extremely funny bc it has signs of Four different pricetags. the red one by Mario started at $45, and then it went to $10 before the $4 i bought it for. (idk where the 4th pricetag fits into this)
ANYWAY the big catch here for me was
♡☆Magical Starsign☆♡
I've been looking for this game for a whiiile and I'm so glad I found it both in very good condition and for just a little over $20!!!! This is a beautiful pixelart JRPG by the devs who codeveloped Mother 3 along with artists from the Mana series on SNES/PS1. VERY excited to play this one hehe >:3
oh also the GBA game is a bootleg replica of Sims 2 Bustin Out. it was 3 dolar.