BY SPECIAL REQUEST: A LITTLE SATIN CHRISTMAS BALL HISTORY...THE UNLIKELY ORNAMENT KING OF GASTONIA

The Unlikely Ornament King of Gastonia - The true story of how a Jewish man from Gastonia became the world’s largest maker of Christmas ornaments, and so much more. Written by Jeremy Markovich

Yes, it is obviously ironic that Marshall Rauch, a Jewish man, was once the largest Christmas ornament maker in the world. He is 93 years old, and has heard — and told — every possible joke about it. The man put a doormat emblazoned with “Shalom” outside one of his ornament factories in Gastonia. He once called himself the Jewish Santa Claus. “All my friends used to tease me: ‘How do you feel about making ornaments for the Christian religion?’ ” Rauch says. “I said, ‘I have no problem. One of our guys started Christianity.’” READ MORE HERE.