Nutcrackers and Forgotten History
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- Decorative nutcrackers began as folk art in the Ore Mountains of Germany. The History Guy recalls the history of an enduring symbol of the holidays.
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We took our then 4 year old granddaughter for a drive looking at Christmas lights. All of a sudden she started yelling for us to "Look, Look peanut chompers, peanut chompers". We had no idea what she was talking about until we followed her pointing at two very large Wooden Soldiers standing guard on either side of a well decorated home's doorway. A Christmas memory made to last forever.
Awww haha
That is a beautiful story
Years ago, when I was in Germany, a folk art expert there told me that the wooden nutcracker dolls were originally made in the mining district of Thuringia (in what then was East Germany), and that the men depicted were miners in their traditional mining gear. She said that foreigners often mistook their blue-coated uniforms and helmets for soldiers’ uniforms, but in fact they were old-fashioned miners’ work clothes.
I realize that many other versions of the nutcrackers have been made, not to mention all the cheap knockoffs manufactured in other countries, but it “deserves to be remembered” that the most traditional nutcracker men are miners.
my grandmother lives in dresden and we own an old nutcracker and i just tried it and it works XD
though i noticed that the store bought walnuts are way bigger than the ones we collected ourselves so they dont fit in his mouth...
due to my family coming from dresden most of our christmas decoration is originated from the christmas markets there and thus is almost exclusively "echte erzgebirgische handwerkskunst" (ffs dont translate the name of the region into ore mountains, even though its technically correct)
one of the most important motifs is as you mentioned mining. ranging from Schwibbögen which are usually adorned with sceneries around the entrances of mines to the set of "bergmann und lichterengel" (miner and light angel) candleholders
Oh! I believe in the original Nutcracker story, the nutcracker is said to be wearing a miner's cap! I thought that was a little strange but makes much more sense now!
When I was growing up, the ability to crack two walnuts with one bare hand was a test of one's manhood. Still remember the thrill when I finally accomplished it in my teens. Sadly, arthritis has now made that feat but a memory.
I also learned that skill as a young man after watching my father and uncles do it for years. If you were careful you could get the nut out without breaking it into tiny pieces.
I did it at age 12 or so. I was quite proud of the accomplishment! We had a ‘50s style chrome looking device that I was able to find A version of not long ago at a yard sale. Gave $2 but might have paid more for the complete set with nit picks like my Mom still has.
Getting old sucks.
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I was stationed in Weisbaden, Germany in 1992. At a Weihnachtsmarkt I bought, directly from the artisan, a limited edition Christopher Columbus nutcracker marking the five-hundredth anniversary of his 1492 voyage to the Americas. I display it every Christmas.
We pronounce "Leavenworth" like leavened bread if you live in Washington state.
Thanks for being my buddy with historical facts.
I made the same mistake when i moved out this way towards Seattle hahah
It also the same in Kansas. Lock your doors when the sirens sound.
@@ryandavis7593 Fort Leavenworth is the home of the Command and General Staff College. All senior officers from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines have to attend there if they aspire to full Colonel or Commander.
Shoot! I was going to add that information! I have been enjoying THG and finally had some information to add. Here's one tidbit: the nutcracker museum in Leavenworth is actually the personal collection of one couple. When we visited, the wife was running the museum. It's clearly a valuable collection, but don't ask about the cost or present value, she won't answer.
It's usually Puyallup that gives gives non pnw trouble.
Oh, I'm going to send a link to this episode to my mother. She had around three dozen xmas nutcrackers, most of them Steinbach's, and a lot of them signed by Mr. Steinbach, the former owner and operator of the Steinbach nutcracker company, and the descendant of the original founder. The Mr. Steinbach who signed my mother's nutcrackers--and who used to make regular visits to a shop in my city that was small, but sold only Steinbach nutcrackers and smokers, and Bavarian cuckoo clocks, and they sold a lot--is now long retired and passed away, but his son and grandson still run the business, I believe.
My mother LOVES to decorate for xmas, and in the past decade has found renewed enthusiasm and vigor, and my brother and I finally--FINALLY!--gave her some grandchildren (to their credit, I didn't know how crazy for grandkids my parents were until after a few actually arrived, as they didn't want to be weird and meddle with something so personal). However, there will be no more nutcrackers purchased: what she has now is the collection. In part, that is because there is simply a finite amount of places to display them around the house, and they're really quite large, not to mention delicate, which has to be considered wherever young children and expensive delicates share space.
But the single most determining reason my mother had to quit buying nutcrackers was the space they take up the other 11 months out of the year. Again, they're big and delicate; they often have articulated parts, and pieces not attached like hats, brushes, bags, etc. The safest, most efficient way to store the nutcrackers and their accompanying parts is in their original boxes (that's best for collection/resale value too), and each box is about the relative dimensions of a shoebox, but much larger--anywhere between double to quadruple the size of a shoebox, depending upon the specific nutcracker. Multiply that size by 30 or 40, and youre looking at A LOT of storage space, in my parents' case, about half of a normal sized unfinished bedroom in the basement of an average suburban home.
"...represents some 40% of the ticket sales for many ballet companies in the US."
Sounds to me like the Nutcracker is responsible for the survival of many of these companies. I doubt Tchaikovsky saw that coming when he grudgingly agreed to compose the music for it.
The ballet was a yearly tradition in our family. Ballet West’s presentation each year is almost universally subscribed to by many families for Christmas and has been for I believe for half a century. Thanks for the memories.
I had a dear friend that passed away on the 1rst. She collected nutcrackers. So much so that every time I'd see them throughout the years I thought of her. When I seen this post I though "how appropriate passed it along to her daughter and one of her dear friends. Little did you know how your videos are cherished in many different ways. Thank you.
Mom took my sister and I to see Mikhail Baryshnikov in The Nutcracker in the 70's. It was terrifying. A true Russian fairy tale.
That was my favorite. I used to watch it every year on PBS, in New York.
When you were listing the types of figurines, I thought you were going to add "and even pirates, cause don't all good stories involve pirates?"
Hope you and yours have a good and productive new year.
I saw the pirate one amongst the various examples and was thinking the same thing!
huh, even Julius Caesar was kidnapped by pirates now that I think about it...
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This vid was nuts! Cracked me up!
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@@MrAndyBearJr there's a kernel of truth in what you said.
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Very good. They didn't cashew sleeping.
Thank you for this presentation. I saw a musical performance directed by an exceptionally talented music teacher before the Christmas break. She taught a grammar school children's orchestra to learn a portion of this classic.
happy new year history guy !! keep up the great work . . .
Loved this ,When my husband was a kid ,I guess most every yr for Christmas his Grandma would by him a nutcracker so he started a collection ,once We got married ,I loved them as much as he did so we bought another one ,then when we had our children ,they too loved them and we started trying to buy a new one every Christmas our Daughter has a few of her own ,.This is what we do we get them out when we decorate for Christmas,and usually do something like this with them
Steubenville, Ohio, named after Baron von Steuben has a nutcracker festival each year from Thanksgiving through early January. I think they have 300+ 6' tall soldiers lining a park and in front of various businesses that sponsor them. A neat way to spend a late fall, early winter afternoon, walking around and looking at them.
Thanks History Guy
I went to see the Nutcracker for the 100th anniversary in 1992 when I was 5, I was hooked. Although we don't go every year, my family does make a trip every few years to see the ballet and it just isn't Christmas if I don't listen to the music of the Nutcracker.
I love nutcrackers. I have a huge collection of the wooden lads
Years ago we bought a 4 foot tall decorative nutcracker at a Goodwill shop. He was missing his left arm which, no doubt, was due to whatever action he had seen. He still holds a place of honor in our home every year.
Fascinating history of the Ballet and the toy/tool/decoration
This has special meaning for me as my daughter danced in a production of The Nutcracker. Your videos are not only full of facts but they truly have heart, and my heart was touched by this. Happy new year to you and yours HG.
It always fascinates when someone from long ago was reluctant to move forward with something that later becomes some iconic aspect of culture.
Good old Leavenworth. It's pretty touristy, but I still wish everyone could visit at least once.
Smart money's on visiting in the summer, though. It's pretty in the winter, to be sure, but those crowds are intense.
Excellent installment, sir. I remember a nutcracker brought home from Germany after my uncle's service during the '60s. We even used it for it's intended purpose, as it looked to be made of walnut; it was a capable wood for this purpose. We used it on walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds, pecans, and brazilian nuts as well. I have many fond memories of it. My aunt and uncle also brought back a cuckoo clock, which my mom still has.
I'm a 66 year old Brit, and don't think I've ever even seen a picture of a decorative wooden nutcracking device until today...only the more traditional metal variety! Do the wooden ones work very well?
No, he mentions this at 9:37. Cheers!
They were once tools, but now most are built purely for decoration.
I'm a 51 year old Brit and I came here to say the same thing. Surprised to hear they're European in origin yet I've only ever seen the metal scissor-type ones.
The wooden ones are more traditional, even if German/British aristocrats were late enough to introduce them back to the UK that industrial production favored metal work.
As someone who wasn't allowed to play with any until I was 4 years old in fear of serious injuries, I would argue that the soon roughed up holding surface and long levers are equally or more suitable for the job.
As a Brit you may not be familiar with Target, think 'Morrisons' or 'Sainsbury's'.
Since the Nutcracker Ballet is played so often in so many places every stagehand has seen and heard it numerous times, maybe hundreds after enough years. Don't forget all the rehearsals also! Most stagehands feel strongly that if they are hearing any of the Nutcracker, they should be getting paid for it! Nonetheless, the stagehands have developed a body of stories about the ballet, most of them involving mishaps. Locally, the Pikes Peak Center is famous from coast to coast for once having dumped the entire snow bag- with two shows worth of snow- right at the beginning when the guests are arriving. I personally witnessed one of the mice getting shot in the ass with the cannon- no damage, just singed the tail. And another time when they built up the cold dry ice fog behind the scrim and when it was raised all the cold air plunged into the pit and knocked all the strings and timpani out of tune. It goes on and on. Whenever stagehands gather the Nutcracker stories could start.
All the shrieks and crying over little bruised fingers, all the many decades of maniacal laughter of slightly older kids (older brothers, most likely): history that deserves to be forgotten.
the fascination in simple objects. happy new year.
the nutcracker seems to encompass human achievement; transforming a tool from a nondescript rock to more elaborate contraptions and finally to a fantastically celebratory choreography with musical accompaniment, a decorative piece that is no longer fit for purpose and a simple hinged metal handle that sits forgotten in the junk drawer.
Jim ewok, yeah, I hear ya! Great insight.
Firstly I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and I wish everyone a very Happy New Year.
Secondly I wish to thank The History Guy for this seasonal history which deserves to be remembered. I had often wondered about the origins of the nutcracker, especially the decorated version. So I especially enjoyed this video. Thanks for that.
The charm of the wooden nutcracker novelty seems to have passed us by here in the UK. Most of us would be only vaguely aware of their existence. Speaking from a position of complete ignorance, as I often do, they look fairly useless for actually cracking nuts with.
Thank you THG.
Yes the modern ones are decorative, he notes this at 9:37.
I have a set of 'British " nutcrackers. circa 1900 a gift from my grandparents. A two pivot joint with decorative handles and two picks. They see regular service as shellfish or pecan crackers.
I fell in love with Nuessknackers when I lived in Celle in West Germany in 1979. Now we have a host of nutcrackers that make our way to the mantle piece of piano shelf each holiday season. Thanks for the entertainment and research!
Happy New Year to The History Guy.You and your talented wife/partner continue to shine a light on the breadth of our world's story. Well done.
Not only do you make good vids about history, which I love, but you do it with class.
St. Valentine's Day will be with us in a couple of months. Valentines have a rich and interesting history. You could start looking at a man called Johnathan King, who had a a stationery shop in Islington in London at start of the 20th Century. He had a considerable collection, a large part of which is now in the Hallmark Museum in Massachusetts. He was also my great grandfather.
Love both the ballet and the musical score! It’s how I bring in the Christmas season!
Because of you, I just found and read the story of "The Nutcracker and the Mouse" by E. T. A. Hoffmann. This makes "The Nutcracker Suite" ballet make so much more sense! I'm 52 years old and it's the first time I heard of the book behind the ballet. It also does a lot to explain why they look so frightening and ugly, yet why the little girl loves him so much.
In the book, the nutcracker is described as having green eyes, and his handle in the back is described as a "thin wooden cape". And it seems to be implied that the nutcracker had carved teeth, because when he was given too tough a nut to crack several of his teeth broke off.
You're off to a great start for the new decade...I look forward to more History in the next episode
I really appreciate that you are able to entertain without being overly-simplustic or critical. I used to watch a couple other history channels that I ended up blocking when they covered a topic I knew about and I realized how biased they were haha.
Perfect! A topic I knew I'd interested in as soon as I saw the title, but not a thing I ever would have thought to research myself.
I've always been fascinated with nutcrackers so thank you for telling the history of them!
Russian fairytale to German toys with a nurishing function of cracking a tasty natural treat, to the ballet and Christmas. What a tribute to what so many think is the Christmas performance!
Happy New Year to you and your family.
Your storytelling and presenting skills continue to be great.
Watching your channel grow and the algorithm favor your channel - despite the rabid demonetization on history content that holds even the slightest hint of controversy - has been a joy. Your editing skill growth has not gone unnoticed; both in the videos and thumbnails. I remember the old intros, but I absolutely enjoy you getting right into the content.
From a single viewer: Thank you for your content. I hope for another good year of history that deserves remembering.
the giving of gifts to children used to be, and in the Netherlands still is, tied to the feast of Saint Nicholas -> Sinterklaas -> Santa Claus, on the eve of december the 5th. During the Reformation, that Catholic feast was abandoned by many, and in Germany, the focus was shifted to Christmas, where it was promoted that the 'Christkindl', or the Christ Child, brought the presents. Thus, in the USA, the German immigrants *think Pennsylvania Dutch, which means 'Deutch', which means German) brought many of their Christmas traditions while the early Dutch who created the settlement New Amsterdam (which became New York) brought with them their Sinterklaas feast. The Swedish immigrants took with them their traditions of the tomte, the goblins/elves with the read pointed hats and the reindeer to add to the mix.
Happy New Years, my friend. Each of your offerings is a welcome calm in the maelstrom many of us wade through, day-to-day.
Wonderful vid! I've been collecting nutcrackers for over 12yrs now, (1 or 2 a year) they have their own room for Christmas 😁 I'd love to visit that museum, bucket list!
Living in a coast town in the south of Sweden. Germany is just across the sea. Still I had no idea this tradition existed. Funny how one can be so close and not know. Even more funny, being informed by someone from halfway across the planet :)
I am a 73 year old Dutchman, neighboring Germany and equally ignorant of this custom. Never too old to learn. Thanks THG and best wishes for 2020 !
Great segment. Love the Nutcracker ballet
I've been collecting for about 20 ish years and have had to repair a few over the years. I'm always looking for more though and have about 200 now.
I _LOVED_ this episode, especially since our daughter has danced in "The Nutcracker". Thank you so much! I am going to share this!
Again, another wonderful bit of history shared by our favorite Mr. The History Guy. Thanks to this video, I'm inclined to start a collection of "Nutcrackers".
Now, how about something on "Coo-Coo Clocks", please?
Happy New Year ! to you & Ms. HG :) I was surprised and delighted by your offering today. It brightens my life, like a quick visit from an old friend , when I find your new posts . Thank you for dropping by! . May you have the best that this new year,& decade have to offer.
History Guy, you rock. I loved this one. I have not seen The Nutcracker yet and this has motivated me to go to the ballet
Happy Neu Jahr to you and yours! Odd suggestions randomly popping into my head include early sound recordings, highlight the 1880 talking clock, plus oldest known intelligible recordings, there ate surprises there! Old Photography and motion picture methods, Secretary of State Seward, and not just his folly, Graf Zeppelin flight around the world, Captained by Hugo Eckener, and so many others! With you and Mrs History Gal so talented at researching and writing, I am sure you could make a silk purse out of my sows ear suggestions! Best Regards as always! David, a Faithful follower!
If you're ever in Saskatoon Canada around Christmas, stop in at the Humpty's restaurant on circle drive. You will find one of the largest nutcracker collection anywhere. I'd say there has to be a 1000 or more.
Finally! I was hoping someone would have made a video in this subject!
Thank you!
I keep my mother's vintage West German nutcracker on display year round. We did test it out once and it does indeed crack nuts like a champ.
I remember fondly visiting my grandparents for Christmas holidays, and meeting around a tall round "table" that was essentially a large wooden bowl full of mixed nuts. In the center of this bowl, a piece came up that had a tin, or metal cap, and it perfectly held a nut which you would then strike with unique hammers. There were a number of lever style nut crackers around too, and family would spend many hours enjoying nuts and conversation.
These videos ought to be required viewing in every world history class in every school class in the United States!
Awesome video!!! Still have my Nutcracker that I bought While stationed in West Germany in the 1980s. Was stationed in Nurnberg at that time and bought it at the Kristkindelmart (spelling??). It still stands guard over my TV station to this day!!
The girl in the painting 'St Nicholas feast' at 1:49 is not holding a nutcracker but a wooden doll of the saint John the Baptist. The feast of Saint Nicholas (december 6th) was a Catholic feast and thus a forbidden one in the Protestant Dutch Republic of Jan Steen, but the feast perservered and the Dutch still cling to their beloved Sinterklaas.
Another excellent episode.
Happy New Year THG, and I look forward to seeing more from your channel over the coming year.
Every Christmas the large, heavy cut glass 'Nut Bowl' would come out. Filled with Walnuts, Almonds, Brazil nuts and Filberts, Hazel nuts. It took pride of place on the dresser with our old Victorian 'Nut Crackers' laying on top of the nuts. Whilst the family sat in the front room watching TV Dad would say pass the nuts then he proceeded to crack away passing the tasty kernels to each of us in turn. We all had our favourites Mum Walnuts my Sister and I Filberts and Almonds and Dad Brazils. This happened every Christmas growing up in the early 60s. Dad was the only one strong enough to operate the ancient Crackers and when we acquired a modern Screw set of Crackers in the 70s it kind of finished the old Christmas tradition and by then as a 13 year old I felt big enough to crack my own nuts, even copying Dad in being able to crack two Walnuts against each other in the palm of my hand. Amazing how this little documentary about Nut Crackers had me reminiscing about Family and Christmas' years ago. 🌲🎅😁 Thanks for posting. 👍
We've been collecting nutcrackers for several years, ever since my daughters started taking classical dance at a local academy. The academy does a yearly performance of the Nutcracker, and both my daughters have been the Sugarplum Fairy during each one's last year; both have been various other characters and dancers in many of the performances through their dance education. It and Swan Lake are my two favorite ballets.
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Happy Holidays! Because Christmas isn't the only one being celebrated.
I'm looking forward to many more historical documentaries from your channel. 🖖😊💕
The Great Geo. Balanchine was in a televised ballet in 1957? See, this is why I must visit The History Guy as often as my schedule can allow. However, it inevitably sends me in search of associated histories. Professor, you're making a bookworm (or is that a NETWORM) out of me.
In recent years there's been TV commercials where Mr Peanut (the mascot of the company Planters) outsmarts a German nutcracker figurine on several occasions. Quite funny.😄
A perfect history story for this time of year.🎄😁
Henry the 8th. Didn’t he get married to the widow next door, and wasn’t she married 7 times before. And I think everyone was a Henry.
Don't do it again, Matilda. (another Harry Champion song).
Is that what made him ‘the 8th?’
Yup: ua-cam.com/video/4mQGnpc10Is/v-deo.html
Hahaha now that’s a nutcracker!
Henry!
Love your channel. Now I have to go visit Lavenworth Washington.
What a fascinating history of this folk art! I'm very surprised that Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, a Christmas staple nowadays, wasn't all that well received at first and took so long to catch on!
Correction: The Suite is only a selection of the music. The entire ballet is The Nutcracker.
Subject request: can you do an episode on Chuck Peddle? He recently past away, but was the man who made home-computing possible in the late '70s. He should never be forgotten!
I appreciated that this history was not primarily about war or religion.
Thank you for this gift of knowledge.
Hey it's Leavenworth! I had a brief visit there in 1997. For a time on my first US tour, I somehow thought I'd visited Bavaria for real. The cornie part was our stay at the Bearvarian Inn! Is it still operating? Thanks HistoryGuy, I haven't visited your channel for a while. It's good to be back. Power to you!
First UA-cam video of the Decade and it reminded me of my eighth grade diving incident....
“Henry VIII gave Anne Boleyn several nutcrackers.” Trying to use them on her husband was a big mistake!
If she had, she might have lived longer. No chance for a male heir = no reason to change wives.
Sean Nolan Actually, Henry would have had her executed for treason anyway, if she had “literally” tried to “crack his nuts,” rather than doing so symbolically by (as he believed) cheating on him.
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I'm constantly amazed at American's penchant for appropriating others country's traditions and idiosyncrasies. I've lived my nearly 60 years between the UK and New Zealand, have had a wide spectrum of friends and have never seen one of these painted nutcrackers with my own eyes. Yet THG presents this video as if every English speaking person is intimately familiar with these odd things.
What a cracking great way to start the New Year!
My husband and I were at a store YEARS ago, and found a Rat King Nutcracker. He loved it but, we didn’t buy it. We have not been able to find an identical one since. All other Rat Kings pale in comparison.
(I would just LOVE to go to a Christmas Market in Europe!)
A very Happy New Year to you History Guy. My grandmother has collected Nutcrackers for the last 15 years. She has so many different shapes and sizes. I think her biggest is 5 feet tall.
Most of my nutcrackers I purchased in West Germany, but I did buy one or two at Target :)
I just saw the History Guy on a History Channel documentary. Very cool.
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Happy New Year HG and Mrs. HG! Your presentations always amaze me. Your ability to take a simple story and craft it into a mesmerizing tale, well, ... it deserves to be remembered!
My favorite Nutcracker is the one at the factory. Happy New Year History Lovers !
Leavenworth is pronounced like the city in Kansas or like levinworth like bread rising. I grew up near by, and visit whenever we visit family. Washington state has many cites that are pronounced differently partly due to indian names. Love your content you are a bright star in finding history that needs to be remembered.
Leavenworth is a great little town, that has become a very overcrowded (during December) tourist destination for its Bavarian Christmas attractions.
Leavenworth is pronounced like heaven, heavenly, unleavened, or level.
I love nutcrackers! Every Christmas I seem to get at least one, it's delightful! What a simple, and yet beautiful, history, much like the little men themselves!
Happy New Year, History Guy! Glad to have found you, and proud to be a subscriber! Hope you and the Mrs. will have a great year!
That was fascinating. thank you so much.
Excellent re-run good Sir! 🖖
Lol, I clicked Like about two minutes into this. I told myself I could unclick if I felt I needed to, but I’ve watched so many of your videos and never once did not Like. Really, your videos need a Love button. I’m cheered, educated, delighted and impatient for your next one, always. In between, I pop up another one or two ‘older’ videos I haven’t seen yet - heck, it’s HISTORY! And you’re careful about facts. I would love your Greece and Adriatic cruise, but likely not survive long enough to get there as I’m disabled and seriously ill. But...I’m nearly twenty years past my ‘sell by date,’ so who knows?!
Thanks for a cracking good story THG! And I hope you and your family have a wonderful year!
Such a fun channel..... Thanx!
I didn't know that those nutcracker dolls were associated with Christmas before Tchaikovsky's ballet. As for plain metal nutcrackers, the best were made by Henry M. Quackenbush, and bore the HMQ logo. My parents and grandparents all had them. I found a set on eBay for which I paid $5 - $0.01 as the only bidder, and $4.99 shipping & handling.
BTW, if you want to hear a VERY interesting take on the Nutcracker Suite, check out Duke Ellington's arrangement
I continued to marvel at your ability to pronounce all those historical names - of course not knowing the proper pronounciation myself , you could be just “winging it “ like I would , and most of us would never know the difference ! Do really enjoy your vids . Happy new year too you and your lovely wife !
Happy new year! Mr & Mrs History Guy. Thank you so much for such a great channel, I love being able to share it with my kids.
Living in WA state our family has visited Leavenworth and the Nutcracker museum several times. Someday I may buy a nutcracker, for now I buy them already cracked.
Thank you for these great snippets of History. I wonder how many children have performed the "Nutcracker" in "Children's Theater" at Elementary Schools all across the US during Christmas season. Both of mine did. Of course they received rave reviews with a cast photo in the local newspapers for each production. A star for a day in "Smallville" Central Kentucky. ;-)
so a victim of The Plague Year was the super cute super packed physical shop of Nena Gifts, Gallery, & Vintage in Seattle ( justFB now, if you weren't on her email list )
but she just emailed a lengthy list of remaining stock suitable for Christmas gifts, including Many Nutckers she got on shopping trips to Germany
(my Mom has several too, and wood tree ornaments, made in 1970s East Germany -- I was a U S. Army kid in W. Germany for much of 1970s)