“Silent Night”: How a beloved Christmas carol was born of war and disaster 200 years ago
On Christmas Eve in 1818, two guys with a small guitar entered a church in Oberndorf, Austria, and also prepared to sing a brand new Christmas carol. Times were bad in Oberndorf, by which lots of individuals worked on the water, manning the salt barges that plied the Salzach River. The upheaval in central Europe
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