The collectionSix hundred Nativity sets.The tiniest artifactA Nativity rendered out of pinto beans and glued onto an overturned salsa dish.The best method of procurementOne set came by way of a New York dumpster, where it was trashed when a Hallmark store went out of business.Of all the holiday decor present this time of year—the Santa hats, the sprigs of garland—the Nativity set remains the sole figurative representation of the reason for the Christmas season.Growing up visiting her grandparents in Flatonia, a town about an hour southeast of Austin, Veronica Koliba remembers how her grandmother would forgo the snowmen and elves in favor of a lone Nativity set, with its classic ceramic figurines of Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus, the three wise men, and all the animals…
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