All posts tagged "christmas week"

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  I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day – Hope Surfaces from Despair

  On Christmas day in 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was inspired to write the poem we now know as the Christmas carol, I...

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  The Revolutionary War Veterans Christmas Dinner in New Hampshire

  Benjamin Pierce, a war hero and father of future president Franklin Pierce, threw a Christmas dinner for 21 Revolutionary War veterans in 1824....

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  We Won’t Go Until We Get Some: New England Colonial Christmas Traditions

  Just how rowdy was a New England colonial Christmas? It depended on who was celebrating. But it bore little resemblance to Christmas...

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  New England Christmas Sayings and Superstitions

  To celebrate Christmas, we bring you some Christmas sayings and superstitions about the holiday from What They Say in New England, by...