In December of 1823, an anonymous submission arrived at The Sentinel, a newspaper in New York.  The submission was a Christmas poem called “A Visit From St. Nicholas” and the newspaper decided to publish it.  The poem became very popular and became known as ‘The Night Before Christmas’, yet nobody knew who wrote it.  

Several years later, a man named Clement Clarke Moore took credit for writing the poem and for a while, that was that.  Until a family reached out and said that it was not Clement Clarke Moore who wrote the poem, but Henry Livingston Jr.  So what is the origin of this classic poem?  And who wrote the words that are read by many every year on Christmas Eve?

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