With Christmas just around the corner, you've probably been busy preparing your house for the upcoming festivities. Cook up some holiday appetizers for your upcoming Christmas party? Check. Trim the ...
Christmas is such a special time of year filled with joy and goodwill. It's a time for Christmas pageants, singing carols, giving gifts and decorating homes. To further your festive spirit, you may ...
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If I were to package together all my favorite Christmas poems, wrapping them up for my friends and placing them under the tree, which would I choose? Having asked myself this question, I set about ...
Reading poetry on Christmas might not be a widespread tradition, but maybe it should be. With all the clamor of kids playing with their new toys, family members catching up with one another and ...
The most oft-recited Christmas poem is probably Clement Clarke Moore’s “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” which set the standard for the classic American Santa Claus goodie-drop as we’ve come to know it. By ...
The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light, I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight. My wife was asleep, her head on my chest, My daughter beside me, angelic in rest. Outside the snow ...
TROY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Troy, New York is the home of Uncle Sam, an iconic character in American history. The Collar City also helped launch one of the best-known Christmas poems in history, which is ...
Christmas, more than any other holiday in the Christian calendar, seems to spark the poetic impulse — an impulse that began, as the Episcopal priest, professor, and poet Chad Walsh (1914-1991) ...
A businessman paid $280,000 for an original 1860 handwritten copy of the classic poem that begins “’Twas the night before Christmas” and read it to friends at a party, an auction gallery said Tuesday.