The city of Wadena, Minnesota, has received a lot of press this holiday season, but one woman thinks there is something the media overlooked.

Back in November, city officials voted to remove a cherished nativity display from a local park after the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Wisconsin-based atheist activist group, threatened legal action.

Every year, the tiny city of roughly 4,000 would set up the beloved nativity in Burlington Northern Park, but the trouble began last year when the display was moved to a central location, TheBlaze reported previously.

“They were offended that we had put it out on city property,” Mayor George Deiss said. “When something is put up that many years it becomes a tradition to the city.”

But just recently a woman named Joan Anderson emailed TheBlaze, indicating that there is much more to this story.

Anderson, an Illinois native, was in Minnesota visiting her brother in a nearby town and decided to make a detour to see if there was any Christmas spirit left in Wadena.

What she found was what she describes as “a blue-collar town full of the Love of God and the birth of Jesus.”

The town, founded in 1858, has a long history of faith, with nine churches to serve its minuscule population.

Read the article “See What This City Did After Atheists Forced Them to Remove Public Nativity Display” on theblaze.com.