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About Crechemania.com
Celebrating the world of paper nativities
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My first creche, a Greek fatni that has been part of my life since I was a young schoolboy, has been patterned on an Italian original.
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There it was, nestled among all the school books at window of the Dernikos bookstore on Ermou Street in Pyrgos, Ilias, in the early 1960s.
I was mesmerized! I had never seen anything like it—a fold-out creche. A simple opening motion is all that’s required to display the elements of the Nativity on five planes. I remember having to sing lots of Christmas Carols from house to house before I had enough money to buy it.
This paper creche has been a part of my life ever since. It’s a small miracle that it has survived at all after all these years. It has accompanied me on my family’s many moves to and from Greece; to my college dorm room; my army quarters; and has come to stay in our Midwest Victorian home.
It lies folded in a drawer most of the year. But when the days begin to grow shorter and the snow flakes start to swirl covering everything in a fresh blanket of glistening snow I know it’s time to unfold it. After all these years it has lost none of its power to inspire, and I still stare at it with the same wonder I did as I child. Its story, you see, is timeless.
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