Check out a large collections of Santa Claus ornaments, figurines, toys, pillows, carvings, Pez dispensers and more in a 9-minute video. The collection includes everything from 70-year-old antiques to new items fresh from the store […]
Cutout cookies of animal and Christmas shapes have been part of our Christmas celebration for at least four generations. The Christmas cookies are the product of a Pennsylvania Dutch recipe that hasn’t found its way […]
Among the new stamps available for Christmas 2016 from the U.S. Postal Service are a new Nativity stamp and a set of four Holiday Windows stamps. The Nativity stamp art features an image of […]
The Central Pennsylvania songwriting team of Bill Dan (lyrics) and Jack Servello (music) just before Christmas 2013 captured the warm and snuggly feelings of childhood Christmas past shared by the baby boomer generation in a […]
The putz is a miniature landscape of various buildings, fences, trees, shrubs, grass, waterways, humans, animals, wagons and much more around the base of the Christmas tree. While not the Nativity scene in a replica […]
Under the headline, “New Christmas Tree Lamps,” Scientific American magazine in its Nov. 12, 1910 issue reported on a new type of Christmas tree light: “The electrically lighted tree is now a feature of the […]
The week before Thanksgiving 1983 saw the release of a modest little film about a boy, Ralphie Parker (played by Peter Billingsly), and his quest to get adults in his life to understand that the […]
During World War II, across America the war effort was everything. Rationing was the norm on a wide range of everyday merchandise, both essentials and luxuries. Manpower was in short supply even in industries […]
Villages of cardboard houses have been decorating homes for the Christmas season since the late 19th century. The tradition began as a marketing ploy by Germany candymakers. Boxes of their chocolates and other sweets were […]
Originating in the Palatinate region of southwestern Germany, Belsnickel is an unpredictable, but generally crotchety, bringer of gifts for the children at Christmas. He dresses in ragged, tattered and dirty clothes trimmed with assorted and […]
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