Tolopka Christmas Newsletter Archive

Tolopka Christmas Newsletters

If you're looking for Steve & Janet's Christmas newsletters, you've come to the right place! Every edition of The Tolopka Tattler ever published is now available (be still my heart!!!).

The online version of The Tolopka Tattler contains all the features you've come to expect from our printed newsletters over the years: boring reminiscence, genuine color photos, sophomoric humor, and a marked inability to Know When to Quit. But wait! You get more! The online versions of The Tattler use patented[1] Hyperlinking Technology® to connect you with even more photos, video, music, and semi-useless information. You just can't get this sort of stuff in the print version of the Tattler. Follow those links!

Hints for Reading The Tattler (2009+)

Beginning with the 2009 Edition, the Tolopka Tattler is published in PDF format. Clicking on the links below will bring you the appropriate PDF.

All photos in the PDF contain links to the full-size versions of the corresponding photo; just click to see us in a size that's certain to disturb your digestion.
Other links in the PDF (blue underlines) are also live and will take you to additional material that you may (or at least we do) find interesting.

Hints for Reading The Tattler (2002-2008)

Hints for Reading the Tattler (1981-2001)

There's no magic here; these are just PDFs containing page scans of the original newsletters. Oh -- and it didn't officially become the Tattler until the 1998 edition; before that it was just the annual Christmas Newsletter.

Current Edition of The Tattler

OK, no more waiting - click right here for the current edition of The Tolopka Tattler. Happy Holidays!

Back Issues

Feeling nostalgic for last year's edition of the Tattler? New to our mailing list and wish you'd been getting these for years? Bored enough so that your eyes will roll up in your head if you don't do something, anything????? Well, have we got a deal for you! Back issues of the Tattler are available right here.

Even Further Back Issues

In the days before the Internet, when the Earth was young and all O Best Beloved, we didn't have fancy markup languages to use for Christmas Newsletters. We used Word, or PageMaker, or troff, or even (God help us!) a typewriter, and then we did an amazing thing: WE PRINTED THEM OUT AND PHOTOCOPIED THEM AND MAILED THEM!!! Sometimes we even pasted them onto paper with cute borders. Oh, the humanity ...

Editions published prior to 1998 didn't have "official" edition names because they weren't Tolopka Tattlers yet. We've given them "after the fact" names here so that they can hold up their heads in company with the other newsletters and not feel too bad.

Anyway -- it's good to get a glimpse back to that simpler time when Versatecs printed on long rolls of paper, a 1200 baud modem could be the height of technology, and the Enter key didn't exist because (kids, close your ears) YOU HAD TO SHOVE THE CARRIAGE BACK TO THE RIGHT WITH MANUAL LABOR! Herewith, the deep-core archives.