Reliable, Trustworthy Reporting, Capturing The Heartbeat Of Our Community
Reliable, Trustworthy Reporting, Capturing The Heartbeat Of Our Community
Author Gail Rock remains proud of her Valley roots. Rock's story became "The House Without a Christmas Tree," a television movie. Rock turned it into a novel and began her career as an author.
Gail Rock credits an unusual collaborator that inspired a 1970s holiday season staple and launched her career as an author: a mouse.
The mouse, which scurried atop the stove in a friend's home, triggered a series of events that birthed "The House Without a Christmas Tree," a television movie that aired each Christmas season on CBS from 1972 to 1977. It eventually became a novel, written by Rock, and led to several TV movie spinoffs.
The story centers on a young girl who longs for a Christmas tree, a request her widowed father rejects for years following the death of the girl's mother.
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