Chuck's Adventures: A Merry Christmas (via an oldie-but-goodie)

Friday, December 11, 2009

A Merry Christmas (via an oldie-but-goodie)

The stop-motion animated short HARDROCK, COCO AND JOE: THE THREE LITTLE DWARFS (1951) has been a Yuletide favorite on Chicago television since it first aired on WBKB-TV back in 1952. It was also released to the home-movie market by Castle Films. (This film is in Public Domain.)

Read about HARDROCK, COCO AND JOE: THE THREE LITTLE DWARFS and Chicago kids shows such as GARFIELD GOOSE, ELMER THE ELEPHANT, RAY RAYNER AND FRIENDS, KIDDIE-A-GO-GO, GIGGLESNORT HOTEL and SUPER CIRCUS in the book THE GOLDEN AGE OF CHICAGO CHILDREN'S TELEVISION available from Lake Claremont Press at www.lakeclaremont.com

And read about Castle Films in the book CASTLE FILMS: A HOBBYIST'S GUIDE available from iUniverse at www.iuniverse.com

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Featuring Chuck's adventures in Nature, adventures with family and friends, adventures in music, and adventures with words.

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Adventure begins where your comfort zone ends.

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Nothing adventured, nothing gained!
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The older I get, the better I was!
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Like G. B. Shaw, I want to be all used up when I die!
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I want to die young at an advanced age.
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A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. - John Barrymore
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The closest place to heaven is being out in Nature.

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I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

--Henry David Thoreau

But in every walk with Nature, one receives far more than he seeks.

--John Muir

Now voyager, sail thou forth to seek and find.
--Walt Whitman

Every journey has to end, and the end of the journey is always called Home.
--Nelson DeMille

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
--Susan Sontag

Twenty years from now, you will be disappointed more by the things you didn't do, than by the ones you did do. Explore. Dream. Discover.

--Mark Twain

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
--Frank Lloyd Wright

It's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly understood; an inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
--G.K. Chesterton

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now.
- -Chinese Proverb

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
--Vance Havner
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