Updated
Dec 24, 2020
How did Charles Dickens beloved Christmas story become a trophy for a Wall Street titan?
By Zachary D. Carter
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Gather round, friends, and savor a holiday fable for our bitter age. As in the Charles Dickens classic
A Christmas Carol, the villain of this story is money. It features its own Ebenezer Scrooge and ghosts of moral compunction. But the ending of our tale has been adjusted: Money prevails and Scrooge dies miserable and rich, but not before buying off his ghosts and fashioning them into a museum exhibit.
That’s where I’m standing, in the annual Yuletide display of John Pierpont Morgan’s collection of Dickensia at the Morgan Library, the Madison Avenue monument to the excesses and undeniable good taste of the man who invented American banking as we know it. Specifically, I am standing in front of the original handwritten manuscript of
We told you that the Derwent Forest Development Consortium was ready to share their vision of the future of the site. They have put out a public consultation which shows an ambitious project in West Cumbria, which would create carbon neutral living on land at Broughton Moor s former armaments depot. Executive chairman of the consortium, Nigel Catterson, said: We are going through the process to submit another plan for further woodland planting – seven hectares in total which will be incorporated in the next phase. We are committed to further forestry planting on the site. We will create wildlife corridors throughout the site and the development will fit within it. Wildlife and nature will be in equal distribution.
Les tales of Gerrards Bridge, Recs and the cup that disappeared
Pilkington Recs before the Final against Blackbrook in 1964 . Hooker Les Kay is seated second from the left, with ‘Buck’ Casey is to his right. FORMER hooker Les Kay is a real mine of information about the amateur game in St Helens back in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He got in touch with Saints historian Alex Service to tell a tale or two about the oval-ball game s fine history in the town - and his part in it. “I’ve got a record that can rarely be beaten,” he says.