Page 16 THE SAUGUS ADVOCATE – FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2022 Saugus Christmas Poetry From the desk of Tom Sheehan Editor’s Note: Saugus historian and book author Tom Sheehan wrote these two poems and requested to share them with Saugus Advocate readers to put them in the holiday spirit. Sheehan received this year’s “Person of the Year Award” during the 41st Annual Saugus Founder’s Day Celebration in September. Merry Christmas from Saugus When each tree is snowed upon each limb, when children lie sleeping waiting him, when Lily Pond gives up quick owl’s hoot and snow is crunching beneath my boot, know I walk here and think now of you who sometimes or not knew this view; who by this pond and this water wide may have walked here along its side; Your Hometown News Delivered! EVERETT ADVOCATE MALDEN ADVOCATE REVERE ADVOCATE SAUGUS ADVOCATE One year subscription to The Advocate of your choice: $150 per paper in-town per year or $200 per paper out-of-town per year. Name_________________________________________ Address_______________________________________ City_______________ State_______ Zip ____________ CC# _______________________________ Exp. _____ Sec. code____ Advocate (City):___________________ Clip & Mail Coupon with Credit Card, Check or Money Order to: Advocate Newspapers Inc. PO Box 490407, Everett, MA 02149 you find a character with “a broad face and a little round belly, / that shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly”? 10. 10. 1. 1. In what 1726 book would you find humanoid animals called Yahoos? 2. 2. What famous author was the first woman to register to vote in Concord, Mass.? 3. 3. On Dec. 23, 1954, a team of surgeons at Boston’s Peter Bent Brigham Hospital performed the first successful organ transplant; what was the organ? 4. 4. The first national Christmas tree, in 1923, came from Vermont and was lit by what president? 5. 5. In what 1968 animated movie would you find a war between Pepperland natives and the Blue Meanies? 6. 6. The mythological yeti – or abominable snowman – derives from what mountain range? 7. 7. On Dec. 24, 1912, one of the country’s first public Christmas trees was lit where in Boston? 8. 8. When they first met, what fictional character said to a doctor, “How are you? You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive”? 9. 9. In what poem would On Dec. 25, 1830, the Best Friend of Charleston became the first of what kind of regularly scheduled transportation service in the country? 11. 11. 12. 12. Who originally recorded “Feliz Navidad”? The “Rabbi Small” mystery series by Harry Kemelman starts with “Friday the Rabbi Slept Late” – it is set in the fictional town of Barnard’s Crossing in what state? 13. 13. What religious group’s worship services include long periods of “expectant waiting” (silence)? 14. 14. On Dec. 26, 1982, what non-human was named Time Magazine’s Man of the Year? 15. 15. 16. 16. Whose portrait is featured on a new European coin this month? On Dec. 27, 1964, what group first appeared on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” singing “Come See About Me”? 17. 17. 18. 18. 19. 19. 20. 20. In what lake would you find Isle Royale? December 28 is National Card Playing Day; what was the previous name of the Jack? The Leaning Tower of Pisa has what function? On Dec. 29, 1852, in Boston, New Yorker Emma Snodgrass, 17, was arrested for wearing what? ANSWERS who one summer may have lately cast for bass or pickerel that quickly passed, or whose shorewide winds of December ilk dared touch your cheek with a dash of silk; or when plush leaves were turned to gold as pure-flung Autumn engaged its hold. Be sure all seasons of your younger grace walk beside me in this near-silent place, know I think, while Christmas spreads from angel’s top to children’s beds, of all my friends whom I correspond and wish visitation beside this pond. Come to Lily Pond again, to Saugus town where Christmas once was tender known, where we gather in childhood memories this pond’s air and smell and winter breeze, where all our younger lives were spent about the shores where curving went, and on the slickered ice we slickered flew fair to the Turnpike and out of view. Welcome Christmas back as it was then, the songs we sang, the friends we’ve been, the wishes springing now full on air, for you all the hopes the heart can bear. Merry Christmas. (Tom Sheehan and Jamie Sheehan) Merry Christmas, Friend May the day be bright and shiny, the winds come soft as a fox glove, the silence in early time of day prepare you for the ones you love. May music be sweetest sound you hear through the clutter of a special day, the drums though keep rolling, and horns, oh distantly on clouds, signal sweet array, Tom Sheehan being honored at Founder’s Day in September (Saugus Advocate file photo by Mark E. Vogler) and in background where music’s played, may you hear the softest old melodies, where humming is the most proper sound, locked up in the gifts you get, and the keys to a puzzle of proportioned grace, though dim when you start to resolve the constant clues set up most neatly in matter of square boxes, where you start out on tips and myriad cues, or you find a blue or a lovely shade of red, or glance at pencil tips so graced in pink, or a yellow hint from a flower’s heart or a lavender drawing you to the brink. Merry Christmas, dear girl of guts, and no ifs or ands or buts. 1. 2. “Gulliver’s Travels” by Jonathan Swift Louisa May Alcott 3. Kidney 4. Calvin Coolidge 5. “Yellow Submarine” 6. The Himalayas 7. Boston Common 8. 9. Sherlock Holmes (said to Dr. John Watson) “A Visit from St. Nicholas” by Clement Clarke Moore 10. Steam locomotive passenger train 11. José Feliciano 12. Massachusetts 13. The Quakers 14. The personal computer 15. King Charles III 16. The Supremes 17. Lake Superior 18. Knave 19. It is the bell tower of Pisa Cathedral. 20. Pants
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