Gary Paul Bryant

The First Ride Gary Paul Bryant

This is the perfect stocking stuffer! The First Ride: The Real Story of Santa Claus relates the touching drama of a Connecticut farm family's experience with a mysterious new farm-hand and his extended family. Based on the diary of Max Pepin, who's real farm has become part of Hopeville State Park in eastern Connecticut. From reindeer to big chimney arrivals, from elves to toys, The First Ride makes sense out of some of the mythological origins of our curious and benevolent American Santa Claus. Gift it!