CHILDRESS — In 1897, the editor of “The New York Sun,” Francis B. Church, penned the famous, “Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus” editorial.
Church’s answer to eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon proclaims that “He [Santa Claus] exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist. And you know they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy.”...