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'Silent night' brings many memories

by ROGER GREGORY / Contributing Writer
| June 21, 2023 1:00 AM

In 1818, in a little town called Orbendorf, just north of Salzburg, Austria, it was Christmas time and the church needed a song for Christmas.

Joseph Mohr was a Roman Catholic Priest, he wrote the words; his friend was Franz Gruber, a school teacher and a music man, and he wrote the music...

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