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`Christmas' in September
The creator of a holiday classic gets a merry little tribute from the hometown he loved to hate

Everybody has to be from somewhere. Ernest Hemingway hailed from Oak Park. Saul Bellow comes from Chicago. Two hometowns fight over who gets to claim Mark Twain. In the literary hometown sweepstakes, Hammond scored big. Hammond has Jean Shepherd...

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