We located some more photographs that show Perry County Christmas decorations.  As I look at these photos, I cannot help but think that the absence of the technology to produce color photographs really doesn’t do the Christmas season justice.  Normally, I love looking at the old black and white photos.  They add a sense of antiquity to the scenes they display.  However, the Christmas season, maybe more than any other season, is a season filled with color, and the black and white pictures just seem to fall so short in the effort to portray this festive season.

• I am not an expert in the German language.  Maybe our friend, Lutz Backmann, in Saxony can tell us what the message says.
• I am fascinated by the ladder structure on the right of the tree.  Could it be a depiction of Jacob’s Ladder?
• The shades on the window might be evidence of…