[mairdie]

I became the Livingston descendant researching the controversy and making it public in 2000. I've worked with English lit Professor Don Foster at Vassar and Shakespearean scholar Professor Emeritus McDonald Jackson from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. For over 10 years, I traveled collecting documentation for Don, and worked with Mac to statistically analyze the phoneme pairs of both men and the poet of the poem. Phoneme pairs describe the last sound of one word and the first sound of the next. It corresponds to the movement of your tongue in your mouth as you recite aloud. Mac statistically proved that the favored sounds of Henry and the Christmas poet were similar and that the favored sounds of Clement Moore were statistically different. With that methodology, he was able to conclude that Henry Livingston was, indeed, the poet of Night Before Christmas.

[mairdie]

New York Times, 2000
https://henrylivingston.com/xmas/publicity/images/nytimes2000.htm

People Magazine, 2000
https://henrylivingston.com/xmas/publicity/images/people2000.htm

The Trial Before Christmas, 2014
https://henrylivingston.com/xmas/publicity/trial/index.htm

Who Wrote “The Night Before Christmas”?: Analyzing the Clement Clarke Moore vs. Henry Livingston Question, McDonald Jackson
https://www.amazon.com/Who-Wrote-Night-Before-Christmas/dp/1476664439

Henry Livingston, Jr.: The Christmas Poet You Always Loved, Mary S. Van Deusen
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01NAGIDZL

[mairdie]

Ping - Night Before Christmas Documentary

[Aquamarine]

Love your work, still one of my favorites JAG - One Toy Soldier

Have a Merry Christmas!

[Chainmail]

Nah -

The original version goes like this:

"A Marine Corps Christmas

T'was the night before Christmas and all through the Corps,

Not a soul had liberty, the troops were all sore.

They were all sacked out, every man in the lot,

On racks of nails, called Marine Corps cots.

When out on the grinder, I heard such a clatter,

I sprang from my rack to see what was the matter.

With bayonet in hand I moved to the door

I cautiously waited to see if there was more.

All of sudden I felt the air grow colder

when I saw four stars on his shoulder

It was Wilson, of course, there was never a doubt

For he had on his poncho, green side out.

He tiptoed around to each mans rack

he carefully inspected each rifle and pack

to a chosen few he gave a 96 chit

but the majority of us got a ration of s*it

As he pulled away in his gold plated tank

pulled by ten colonels all bucking for rank

I heard him exclaim, and he said with a shout

"Merry Christmas you Bastards you'll never get out".

So there!

[Tired of Taxes]

There’s no doubt in my mind that Mr. Livingston was the author. Enjoyed the video! Thanks for the ping, and Happy Christmas!

[Verginius Rufus]

Troy, New York, which is near Albany, was one of the towns visited by the Marquis de Lafayette on his tour of the United States in 1824-1825. That was mentioned by one of the speakers at a program on Lafayette held at Fairfield University on Sept. 7, 2024, which was rebroadcast today on C-SPAN.