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In Serbia, Christmas begins when an oak log or branch known as a badnjak is brought into the home and placed on the Christmas fire.
Both parents' lawsuits would accuse the city of intentionally destroying evidence by tearing down the ravaged structure one day after the Christmas fire, before it could be inspected independently — or even visited by the parents to search for mementos — a decision that Mr. Emery called "extraordinarily suspicious".
To kindle some history: In 1966, Fred M. Thrower, then general manager of WPIX-TV, Channel 11, did something for New York apartment dwellers unable to enjoy the crackling comfort of a Christmas fire: he began a tradition of two or three commercial-free hours on Christmas Eve or morning with nothing on the screen but a burning log, accompanied by Christmas music.
Imagine: wooden blocks with non-toxic plant-based paints that last for decades and then can serve as Christmas fire kindling at the very end of their lives; plastic toys that can be fully recycled – not downcycled – into new plastic toys; perhaps even biologically grown toys from cellulose.
He'd tell us how growing up as a boy he'd found an orange in the toe of a sock laid on the hearth of a Christmas fire— an exotic thing, a bright bitter sweetness.
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