This email choked me up – thanks to Chris for letting us post it: Dear Holiday World and Splashin' Safari, Like most people who grew up in Southern Indiana,…
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A Friend from ’62
Wow. It's not just my Mom reading this thing. An email came in late yesterday afternoon from a lady asking about discounts. When I emailed her back with the information,…
Read More »Duck, duck … mouse?
Karen sent us a photo of her children, Derek and Elizabeth, who brought HoliDuck along with them on a cruise a few years ago. She included this note: "HoliDuck made…
Read More »Joy to the World
A wonderful grandma named Joy sent us this story: "My granddaughter is two and is in love with Holidog. She was having a little trouble with the idea of 'potty…
Read More »“Oh, heavens!”
If, in the past 65 years, you worked at Santa Claus Land or Holiday World & Splashin’ Safari, you will no doubt recognize that phrase. And who said it. Oh,…
Read More »“Excuse me, may I have this dance?”
Using this blog for little slice-of-life stories has been fun over the years. Here’s a memory from 2002 I’d like to share. It involves Mrs. Koch and a very special…
Read More »Retiring? Say it ain’t so!
We've known the day was coming since last year. Should have been plenty of time to accept and prepare. But still, it's a shock. Our friend Rich Davis from the…
Read More »Do you remember your first visit?
Steve does. He grew up visiting his grandparents in Bedford, Indiana, each summer … and remembers the "long, long" drive to Santa Claus Land back in the 1950s. His mom…
Read More »Birthdays are holidays, too …
… so let’s take a minute to say Happy Birthday to a very special man. Bill Koch was born in Evansville on January 10, 1915. He graduated from Reitz High…
Read More »A fowl memory of Santa Claus Land
We received a confession, of sorts, from Ginger via email this week. The Bloomington, Indiana, lady graciously gave us permission to make this a public confession. We searched our photo…
Read More »Santa Claus Land Children’s Choir
Has it really been 40 years? All these children are grown now, with children (and maybe even grandchildren) of their own. Time, it seems, flies as fast as Santa’s sleigh…
Read More »Frost warning calls for summer memories
Well, where’d that come from? We spent all summer (and much of fall) exclaiming over the extreme temps. The mercury is heading in the other direction tonight. Just as we…
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