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A Wisconsin Christmas tradition returns as Jim Miller brings his solo performance of Dylan Thomas' beloved holiday story A Child's Christmas in Wales to the Family Learning Center in Menomonie. The retired theatre professor and actor first performed his 30 minute solo rendition of the short story locally in 1990 and for many in the area attending the annual recitation of Thomas’ classic memoir became an essential part of their own seasonal celebration. With only a few props and simple set pieces, Miller gives voice to the author’s recollection of a 1920's boyhood spent in Swansea, Wales. The poet remembers Christmas as a time of ice cakes and blazing pudding, postmen and snowmen, caroling at strange dark doors and snowballing the neighborhood cats."