Evangelist Franklin Graham has announced he is abandoning the Republican Party in disgust over the move by the GOP-led Congress last week to pass a budget that Graham said was "wasteful" and provided funding for Planned Parenthood, which he compared to the Nazis.
Graham has previously said he has no faith in any political party, but his apparent renunciation of his Republican affiliation is an indication of anger on the right and the strong interest many disaffected evangelicals have shown in populist outsiders such as Donald Trump.
While it looks like we won't be having a White Christmas in Boston this year, that doesn't mean we can't set the mood for the holiday season. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, one of our most famous "local" poets loved the outdoors. And here, we present a rendition of one of his more famous poems, "Snow-Flakes," performed by Allison Olivia Choat for the myStanza poetry channel.
Choat is an Associate Director and founding member of MoonBox Productions headquartered in Cambridge. Her most recent production, a revival of Neil Simon's classic comedy "Barefoot in the Park," just finished a successful run at the Boston Center for the Arts.
