244: Chatting about the Proof of Santa’s Existence and His Impact on Our World with Tom Jerman

Tom A. Jerman, a resident of Asheville, N.C., has bachelor’s degrees in philosophy and journalism and a juris doctorate degree from the University of Utah. Employed as a copy editor with The Salt Lake Tribune between 1974-78, he went on to practice labor and employment law for 35 years. In 2015, he took early retirement to pursue his desire to write something more interesting and enduring than legal treatises. A serious collector, Jerman has amassed some 4,500 Santa figurines and ornaments, and thousands of antique postcards printed between 1900 and 1910. The enormous diversity of figures — temporal, geographic, historical, size, attire, date of gift-giving, mode of travel — prompted him to write Santa Claus Worldwide, the first volume of a planned trilogy. For more information, please visit http://acollectionofsantas.com, or follow the author on Twitter at @tomajerman Grab his book Grab Santas Worldwide https://amzn.to/3pFnrly { Affiliate Link}