This is the home on the Internet of The Witte Times, proof positive that some people have too much time on their hands, and that "some people" includes me.

The Witte Times is a Christmas newsletter that started out modestly enough in 1994 as a two-page black and white missive.  It experienced a four year hiatus and in 1999 re-emerged as a full color, four page wretched excess, which has been its status pretty much every year since then.

I write and edit this thing in Word, which I must say is a lousy desktop publishing program.  I probably should use some other program, but here at The Witte Times, we're all about tradition, even when it involves punishment.

We send out somewhere between 200 and 250 copies of this monstrosity a year.  I know, I am a glutton for abuse.

The editions have been converted to PDFs.  The Word files are so huge that trying to convert them directly results in crashing a computer or two and maybe the server, so instead I made my secretary scan them and convert them to PDFs.  (What a nice boss!)  As a result, there's some loss of resolution, but I think you'll get the gist of it.

So without further embellishment, here they are.  If you don't have Adobe Acrobat by now, you never will.  Please be warned that the 1999 and later editions are quite large and will take some time to download.

1994

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006 (cleaner PDF and smaller file!)

2007

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