cartoon

Peanuts was a beloved comic strip that ran in thousands of newspapers.  Americans processed many of the cultural changes of the 60's through Peanuts: "jogging", an obsession with "cool", psychotherapy, idealism, cynicism, and commercialization. At the same time, many of the themes explored by the Peanuts gang were timeless and deeply personal:  depression, unrequited love, identity, trust and belonging, for example. These are great subjects for starting and sustaining meaningful conversation. What did Peanuts mean to you then? What about now?

Peanuts was a beloved comic strip created by Charles Schulz.  Children and adults alike would wait for the paper to see what Charlie Brown and his friends would do next.

In the 1960's they were adapted for television.  The broadcast of Charlie Brown's Christmas special became a tradition.

In this story, Charlie Brown and his friends seek the true meaning of Christmas in the production of a school pageant, decorating a tree, and the selection of Christmas music.  Eventually Linus sorts it out and explains the true meaning of Christmas.