"The Night Before Christmas," a Newport Resident's Classic Tale!
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A Newport Author's Famous Story
For as long as my husband and I have been reading the famed “The Night Before Christmas” story to our children, we have adopted the tradition of driving through the beautiful Kay/Catherine area of Newport each year to show them the house in which the actual story was written. There is even a plaque of Santa Claus himself right on the front of the big, old, white Victorian home so that must mean it was written here right??
Before my children grow up to call their childhood memory of this seasonal tradition a big ole farce, I thought to do a little research on the author, Clement C. Moore. Did he really write the story and did he do so while residing at 25 Catherine Street? And to satisfy my literary curiosity…
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