Local families cherish memories of dads as Santa
12/22/2020 Local families cherish memories of dads as Santa Fred Carter of North Smithfield spent more than four decades playing Santa Claus. Many residents remember him traveling through the town with his horse and buggy to deliver lollipops to the children. NORTH SMITHFIELD – While other children growing up in the 1960s might have bragged that their fathers were firemen or police officers, Ruth Goudreau and her siblings had them beat. For their childhood and much of their adulthood, their father, Fred Carter, was known as the resident neighborhood Santa Claus, driving around North Smithfi...
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