A Christmas story

With no money for gifts, determination found a way

Everyone of a Certain Age has a holiday story; the older we get, the more they accumulate. This time of year brings them all back with the wistfulness and longing of memory.

Here is a story of the Christmas that has stayed with me for nearly five decades.

It was 1976 and I, the youngest of six, attended Buffalo State College, just a two-mile bike ride …