The World and Everything in It - Dec. 24, 2011
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Hour B, Segment 3
The story behind a well-known Christmas poem
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote "Christmas Bells" on Christmas Day 1864. The poem has been set to music as "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day."
- Bill Mitchell, pastor of Florida's Boca Raton Community Church, spoke about Longfellow's poem in a December 2010 sermon, available here via YouTube.
