The Met says thanks Annual holiday gala is scrunched into a one-day downtown bash.(LIFE)

From: The Fresno Bee (Fresno, CA) | Date: November 21, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Felicia Cousart MatloszThe Fresno Bee

All that's missing from this scene is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, but he might be stowed deep inside one of two semitrailers sitting behind the Fresno Metropolitan Museum.

It's a recent afternoon near the downtown institution. The doors of the trailers, in an alley behind the museum, swing open for such people as Carli Morgan. She has a tent to create for Santa Claus, who's needed Saturday for the Met's "Celebr...

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