Holiday Classics

A modern American folktale, Willem Lange's Favor Johnson is the story of a hound named Hercules, Doctor Jennings, homemade fruitcake and neighborliness in a Vermont village at Christmas.

After 42 years of marriage, Alice's husband, Ray, passed away. Surrounded by loneliness, she heads out into the snow to plow a neighboring farmer's drive…

Willem Lange's "Christmas on the Party Line" is the heart warming story of an isolated old couple who were saved from an impossible winter by a group of…

A holiday favorite, this highly anthologized short story is read by the late author Grace Paley."The Loudest Voice" is an amusing tale about a little…

A perennial favorite for VPR listeners, VPR commentator William Lange's reading of this classic tale comes to life.An opportunity to step away from the…