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posted by Jeanne Spellman at 3:04 PM
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Hi, just checking systems to see if the experts are receiving. Tim
Just checked but haven't found any questions yet.
Hello Experts,
I was raised in an fundamentalist/evangelical type environment. In their iconoclastic zealm, members of my parents' church viewed "nativity scenes" (I'm 38 and only now learning that people call them "creches") as, well, somewhere between not good to just plan evil. I have no direct experience of how one displays a nativity.
I have aquired a very nice set and would like to display it appropriately this Christmas and give my daughter a valueable tradition that I did not have. I know that there is some general guidelines as to when certain people are included: ie. Christ on Christmas eve or morning, Wisemen on Epiphany. When does one put out the Scene, Mary, Joseph, Shepards?
I have seen a couple of comments about people slowly moving Mary and Joseph and the wisemen towards the scene. Is this generally done? Anything else I should know?
Hi Creche friends:
At the Museo de Las Americas we are opening an exhibition called Mapping Nativity from October 28 - Dec 31, 2006, TRYING to have a creche from every Latin American country. Do you know of anyone in Colorado who might have nativities from CUBA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, PARAGUAY AND URAGUAY. We are showing collections of La Meta Lubchenco, Flo Ramirez and Laura Edmondson; see www.museo.org.
Thank you for any support info - which of course I need ASAP to include new creche for opening on Oct. 27, 2006, 6 - 9 pm. All welcome!!
My contact info:
Kristi Martens, PhD
Curator of Education
Museo de Las Americas
861 Santa Fe Drive
Denver CO 80204
work: 303-871-4401, ext 26
kristi@museo.org
home: skmartens@comcast.net
303-478-2361
THANK YOU!
Hi,
I am trying to find pieces to go with an antique set. The set was purchased piece by piece at a dime store by my grandfather when he was young. The pieces are about 4"-5" tall, lightweight (paper mache?) and are stamped Japan on the bottom. We think they were purchased in the 1920s at either SS Kresge or Woolworth.
Any information you can give me about them or sources to track them down would be most appreciated. I looked all over ebay and nothing listed there looks quite like them.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Hello,
I have a question for the expert. Can you e-mail me at rachel_pantos@yahoo.com
Thanks!
Does anybody know why some nativity scenes include Palm-Trees other than they are decoration? Thanks
Good Afternoon,
I have a Nativity set from 1947 in plaster of Paris. I've been fortunate to find identical pieces on ebay for spares and a new piece or two. I need help in identifying it. The figures have this molded into the bases: "copyright symbol C Miller '47".
Can anybody help me to identify the factory?
vmarchionn@acm.org
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