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Thomas Parrish Appalachian Heritage, Volume 23, Number 2, Spring 1995, pp. 9-10 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1995.0097 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/437280/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:19 GMT from JHU Libraries The Santa Claus That Stayed Thomas Parrish Some years ago, spealdng at a retirement dinner honoring a Berea College library director, Al Perrin offered a characteristic description of his own relationship to the library. Commenting that Santa Claus traditionally pays very brief visits to houses, entering and leaving by way of the chimney, Perrin described himself as a different kind ofSanta Claus—one who "came down the chimney and then stayed." Nobody was surprised at the tone and candor ofthe remark. It merely acknowledged what everybody knew—that he was not only a leading do- nor of money and books to the library but also, as a volunteer bibliogra- pher, spent a great deal of time at his desk in the special-collections area of the building. The remark was typical of Perrin because it had nothing either boastful or falsely modest about it; it simply represented, with a humorous twist, an objective fact. A native ofMichigan, Perrin graduated from the
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