It was the evening of Dec. 9, 1965, that "A Charlie Brown Christmas" first aired. I was 10 years old! So, of course, I was old enough to have unraveled the mysteries of Christmas and Santa, but I was ...
Editor’s note: In 1897, Virginia O’Hanlon, age 8, of Manhattan, wrote to the New York Sun with a simple question: “Is there a Santa Claus?” Editorial writer Francis Pharcellus Church wrote the paper’s ...