Illustration: “Twelfth Night Merry-Making in Farmer Shakeshaft’s Barn,” from Ainsworth’s “Mervyn Clitheroe,” by Phiz, c. 1850. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Traditional Celebrations for ‘Little Christmas’

By Melissa Berry on January 5, 2024

In this article – to celebrate the traditional end of the Christmas season – Melissa Berry describes the history and traditions of “Little Christmas.”.. (Read More)

Photo: carrying the Boar's Head at the Boar's Head and Yule Log Festival, University Christian Church, Fort Worth, Texas. Courtesy of the First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Corpus Christi, Texas.

Ye Olde Christmas Party, Part 2

By Melissa Berry on December 16, 2022

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry continues her story about a 1908 Christmas party in Boston that echoed the merriment of Old England... (Read More)

Illustration: traditional Christmas merry-making in the banqueting hall at Haddon Hall, Derbyshire, from "The Mansions of England in the Olden Time, Series I" by Joseph Nash (London, 1839). Courtesy of the University of Leicester, United Kingdom, Special Collections.

Ye Olde Christmas Party

By Melissa Berry on December 13, 2022

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes about a 1908 Christmas party in Boston that echoed the merriment of Old England... (Read More)

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