Eastern Tradition

You may ask the question from the title, "Why 38 Days of Christmas?" I am sure you thought it should be the 12 days of Christmas from the songs and stories that are told and sung during the Christmas Season, or my have thought that even with the addition of the Advent Season, we still would only have a month of Christmas, but in reality, not so. We must understand that Christmas really takes you out of one year and into the next, for you will find that in the Western tradition we celebrate Christmas at the end of the year, however in the Eastern traditions of the church, Christmas in at the...

Nouvelles recherches sur l'Île de Pâques, basées sur l'archéologie, les récentes recherches ostéologiques et génétiques, ainsi que sur la tradition orale, les rapports des premiers explorateurs et des premières missions ethnologiques sur l'Île. Jean Hervé Daude, sociologue, spécialiste de la tradition orale de l'Île de Pâques, met gracieusement le compte rendu de ses recherches à la disposition des Musées, des chercheurs et des institutions d'enseignement, ou de tout autre organisme ayant pour mission de diffuser la connaissance.

Lester grew up on the banks of the Middle Fork of the Kentucky River in eastern Kentucky during the early 1900s. For his time, he was progressive who had the forethought to document the life and times as a mountaineer. Lester left the little community called Wilder Branch to marry, serve his country, and later write his memoirs. Lester left behind a treasure of historical nuggets for anyone wanting to learn more about pioneer life in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.