Blue Christmas (not the song)

[Hugo]

> Some Googling brings up a 2005 hit as the earliest, from a
> Pennsylvania church. The link doesn't take you to the actual 2005
> announcement; it takes you to the church's most current page, but here's
> what's visible on the Google search page:
>
>
>       Pennside Presbyterian Church
>       <
> http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=books&cd=1&ved=0CDEQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pennsidepresby.org%2F&ei=AJWqUuLdK8mfrQGB2YGABA&usg=AFQjCNHWlCR6Avo3xehDdkkPYnT4J484PA&bvm=bv.57967247,d.aWM
> >
>
> www.pennsidepresby.org/?
> May 27, 2005 - 6PM - Temple Biblico - Spanish /Church Service/. Sunday,
> December 8 2nd Sunday of Advent 9AM - Sunday School 10AM - Worship
> Service 4:30PM - /Blue Christmas/ Service of Remembrance & Reflection.
> Wednesday, December 11 12:30PM

This can't have been 2005. For one thing, May is a bit soon for listing Christmas services. Second, December 8th 2005 was a Thursday. December 8 2013, however, was a Sunday.

Here's the Blue Christmas event cached on another site, that shows one of the others as 2013:

http://www.gigablast.com/events?id=22994441084.18138962177267029143

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Here's a December 17, 2004, I bet there's some earlier:
http://archives.umc.org/interior.asp?ptid=2&mid=6306

Hugo

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