In our last issue, I wrote about how we (many of us, at least) celebrate Christmas in Sweden. I went through it all, from Dec. 1 and Swedish Public Service’s advent calendar TV show, through the ...
McLaughlin coordinates both Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. The mayor funds the Christmas dinner herself ... Owner Cathy Chubbles and her husband Roy started the tradition to bring the community ...
And in Puritan England, in New England, they did also. In Scotland they did. So in places where they took that very seriously, they don’t have very strong Christmas traditions. And I think in a way ...
It's often claimed that many of today's Christmas traditions derive from the pre-Christian observances of pagan cults suppressed by Roman authorities. The story goes that, after Christianity ...