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Judith Flanders’ “Christmas: A Biography” manages to be not only a timely history of the festive season but also an overdue re-evaluation of some of the common assumptions about it.
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It’s a familiar show. For more than four decades, 1.5 million people have delighted in the storytelling, music and Scrooge’s unforgettable discovery of kindness, generosity and love. Ten directors, eight
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Richard Malone stared hard through the windshield, trying to see past the fog on the glass, past the twitch of the wipers, past the streaks of snow and into the
Read moreOn the Monday after Thanksgiving, at precisely 9 a.m., Dorothy Robertson unlocked the doors to the Hillsdale Senior Center, the fluorescent bulbs blinking to life behind her. They revealed a
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It was December 1986; and after being apart for six months (John in Fort Bragg and me in Korea) it was our first Christmas together. Everything was good! My boys
Read moreChristmas is both a sacred religious holiday and a worldwide cultural and commercial phenomenon. For two millennia, people around the world have been observing it with traditions and practices that
Read moreI finally got around to decorating my house for Christmas this past weekend. The ordinary knickknacks got carried to the dining room table in prep for being wrapped and placed
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