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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1992)
Always Christmas has holiday joy all year By Anne Steyer Staff Reporter The holiday season seems to pul a spark of joy into almost everyone. Even the crankiest of humbugs has a hard time ignoring mistletoe or glar ing at a lighted Christmas tree. But for a few special people, the holiday season lasts more than a few winter months. Cheryl Conner and Joyce Durand arc two of those people—people who believe that holiday feelings shouldn’t come once a year and that the spirit of giving isn’t just wrapped up in red or green paper and tied with a bow. Conner and Durand arc the owners of Always Christmas, 247 N. 8th St., a holiday specialty shop located in Lincoln’s Haymarkct district. The Haymarkct, an area that evokes nostalgia simply from the architec ture and the Grand Station, is the perfect atmosphere for a shop that all year ‘round stirs feelings of holiday anticipation and inspires the whis tling of carols. Sid Conner, an Always Christmas salesclerk and the husband of man agcr/co-owncr Cheryl Conner, said the shop is more than just a Christmas ornament and decorations store. And he’s right. Certainly, it’s filled with twinkling lights, dancing elves and ice-skating Robin Trimarchi/DN Cheryl Conner, manager of Always Christmas, stands among the store’s hundreds of Christmas ornaments, both new and antique. The store, 247 N. 8 St., is open all year. snowmen, nui u also is Idled wdh special gifts that do more than deco rate a holiday home — they can ex press affection and rekindle friend ship. People buy omamcnis for differ cni reasons, such as adding to thei collection of Victorian Santas, but th primary reason is gift giving. “A Christmas ornament is a per r sonal gift,” Sid Conner said, “some ; thing that will be reused, year after year, rekindling thoughts of friend ship each lime it’s pulled out.” “It won’t end up on the garage sale in a few years,” he said. This holiday season marks the shop’s third anniversary, and while it is busy and open all year, the stirrings of the holiday spirit in November and December cause business to increase considerably during the holiday sea son, he said. There is a special something about the season — something that reawakens a childlike anticipation. Memories surface of decorating the tree, year after year, with special fam ily ornaments. The smell of spiced apple cider drifts by. AlwaysChristmas recaptures these feelings and gives those grown-up children the opportunity to start tradi tions of their own, whether it be con ventional ball ornaments or the dis tinctive difference of hand-blown crystal icicles — or any number of other unique ornaments. The Knot Knoggins woodcarvcd Santas pecking out from stockings hung on cast-iron hooks rekindle im ages of a Victorian Christmas. Holiday spirit is in the air at Al ways Christmas, from lop to bottom, in every nook and cranny. 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