Christmas customs in colonial America reveal sweet treats and plays
United Press International notes that trick or treating echoed a Spanish Christmas custom in colonial America with little angels asking for gifts. Housewives offered pies and fried bunsuelos while Los Pastores Nativity plays lit Christmas Eve in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles Pueblo
Los Pastores
Pennsylvania
New York City
Lessons and carols at Williams College Thompson Chapel
Williams residents will read lessons at 4 and 7 30 p m on Sunday December 14 at Thompson Memorial Chapel Williams College The service is open to the public and is sponsored by the Chapel Board Newman Association Music Department and the Choral Society The 100 voice Choral Society directed by Kenneth Roberts will perform works by Antes Billings Feliciano Ives Foote and Menotti plus Appalachian and Negro spirituals and American Christmas songs.
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William Greiter
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Christopher Ives
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Thomas Shaver
Lauren Stevens
John D. Eusden
Robert H. Stafford
St. Patrick’s Parish
Robert K. Buckwalter
First Congregational Church
North Adams
Williams College Choral Society
Kenneth Roberts
United States
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