CHILDRESS — In 1897, the editor of “The New York Sun,” Francis B. Church, penned the famous, “Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus” editorial.
Church’s answer to eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon proclaims that “He [Santa Claus] exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist. And you know they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy.”
Church, who died in 1906, and Virg…
