Explore Carroll: Dayhoff: Greeting the new year with comfort, joy ... and a lack of debt

Explore Carroll: Dayhoff: Greeting the new year with comfort, joy ... and a lack of debt

"January, bleak and dreary,

First arrival of the year,

Month of all months most contrary,

Sweet and bitter January."

On Jan. 2, 1994, Joe Getty of Manchester (now a state senator-elect) greeted readers with that poetic tribute to January in a column he wrote for the Historical Society of Carroll County about New Year's celebrations in Carroll County in the late 1800s...  http://www.explorecarroll.com/opinion/5039/greeting-new-year-with-comfort-joy-lack-debt/

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