Peanuts

How Victoria de Puy and her daughter Geraldine came to understand their relationship through the friendship of Snoopy and Woodstock.

What do you get when you combine the sweet sounds of an obscure West Coast jazz composer with the most popular comic strip of all-time to create an animated Christmas special? “A Charlie Brown Christmas” — one of the most enduring and endearing cultural phenomenons of the last 50 years.

Victoria de Puy and her daughter Geraldine read “Peanuts” in Panama City, and the comic strip taught them about the United States ?- but were there really so many leaves to rake?

The soundstrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas certainly isn’t new, but it does stand out. Christmas music is filled with jingle bells and snowmen, but not so with Vince Guaraldi’s work. His soundtrack has been recognized and preserved in the National Recording Registry from the Library of Congress.

Peanuts comic strip creator Charles Schulz led a much darker life than anyone ever realized, and he put his troubles into the funny pages every day.