Article: BACK STORIES BOOK TELLS THE TALES BEHIND POPULAR CHRISTMAS SONGS.(PREVIEW)

Byline: GREG HAYMES Staff writer

'Tis the season for chestnuts roasting by the open fire, making a list and checkin' it twice, jingle bells and red-nosed reindeer.

'Tis also the season for Ghent author James Adam Richliano, whose first book, ``Angels We Have Heard: The Christmas Song Stories,'' has been published just in time for the holiday season by the Chatham-based company Star of Bethlehem Books.

And what a whopper of a book it is -- a 464-page, full-color, 9-by-12-inch hardcover coffee-table volume telling the stories behind the songs that comprise the Christmas canon. Visually, the book is a treat -- chock-full of rare photographs, album ...

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