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Sybil Bruncheon has been performing on stage, radio, TV, film, and in various Vaudeville, burlesque, church basement, county fair, and sideshow....uh..."venues" for most of her 29 years. She is available for bookings for just about anything and can be reached at bruncheon@hotmail.com and on her website sybilbruncheon.com. She is a proud member of the Actors Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild. Her erdo number is 16.

...and it was at that point that the Poka-Ma-Hola Ladies League of Public Decency began gathering up all the Christmas cards that they felt were frivolous, flippant, and irreligious to be burned in a great bonfire in the town square. Furthermore, the clerks working in the "Holiday Notions & Santa's Workshop" section of Stynkelton's Department Store were threatened with charges of heresy and witchcraft and told that even in their elf costumes they would be thrown into the fire as well if they didn't repent...

...and so, on December 21st, 1955, all of the children in Poka-Ma-Hola, Idaho saw a "Christmas Miracle"..... scores of "elves", middle-aged sales ladies, and unmarried perfume counter clerks kneeling and praying in the snow drifts in front of Stynkelton's Department Store beside the papier-mâché Nativity installation..... modern Idaho folks (oh, and elves!) mixed in with various “Bethlehem” villagers, cows, ducks, geese, and chickens, an ox-and-lamb combo, a drummer boy, an impolite innkeeper and his surly wife, three wise men (or two wise men and a drunk!), bales of hay, a leaky roof, and a giant aluminum "Star" on some fishing-line swinging back in forth in the wind, as the ashes of burning Christmas cards blew across the landscapes of both Bethlehem...and Poka-Ma-Hola.... while the Poka-Ma-Hola ladies yowled "Holy! Holy!! HOLY!!!!" in their cracked voices to Reverend Tinker's portable Hammond organ...

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