[Pelham]

“He was definitely opposed by the sort of non-conforming teetotaling bluenose bible-beating bunko artists who would throw us all in jail for celebrating ...gasp ...Christmas! “

Those would be your yankee Puritan neighbors in Massachusetts. Christmas was routinely celebrated in Virginia and other points south.

[Kenny Bunk]

Unfortunately, Pel, Maine, although a haunt of the odd Anglican was the home of quite a few non-conformists, Baptists, Unitarians, Anabaptists, Friends,etc., and was part of Massachusetts until 1820 and disestablishmentarianism.

We are still in recovery.