This list originally ran on December 3, 2022. We’re republishing it in honor of the season. Listen to enough versions of “Winter Wonderland” — say, more than 150 — and it’s hard not to start picking ...

Most everyone knows the song “Winter Wonderland” but few people outside of Honesdale, Pa. know the story or man behind it. A local man, Richard Smith, wrote the lyrics in 1934 while he was at the West ...