Holiday Has Many Rituals
The article notes Christmas customs vary by community and family. Traditions arise from history culture or deliberate efforts to express the season, becoming cherished, old fashioned community projects.
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Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1963
Page
4
Christmas customs across towns in the United States and Canada
The article surveys festive traditions from Putney Vermont to New Orleans and Richmond Virginia. It highlights Santa’s Land in Vermont, caroling at St. Louis Cathedral and La Petite École, Richmond’s candlelit city landscape, Reveillon feasts in French Canada, and Hanover actors spreading cheer in Barksdale theatre circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
St. Louis Cathedral
la Petite Ecole
Hanover
Barksdale Theatre and Friends
Warding Off Witches Led to Candy Canes
The Middle Ages story says Europeans carried glass canes filled with colored candy to distract witches. Witches supposedly forgo evil spells while sorting the candy, a belief cited by the Candy Chocolate and Confectionery Institute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Candy, Chocolate and Confectionery Institute
Christmas Customs in New Mexico
Indian and Spanish traditions blend with American Christmas in New Mexico. Taos Pueblo showcases a procession of torches and lumiaries light homes as Nine Day posada plays unfold in churches hotels and families. Santa Claus remains a festive highlight of the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Mexico
Taos Pueblo
Santa Claus
Christmas Tree Lane Ceremony at Altadena Lights Deodars
California holiday tradition features Altadena's Christmas Tree Lane where deodar cedars line a public throughfare. Thousands of bulbs illuminate the trees at dusk on Christmas Eve as motorists drive slowly to enjoy the spectacle. Captain Frederick J. Woodbury brought the cedars from seeds he collected in the Himalayas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Altadena
Frederick J. Woodbury
India
Himalayas
Tree Planting Along Principal Road to Woodbury Ranch 1885
On his ranch, the pioneer planted young trees in 1885 as his sons transplanted them along the main roadway leading to the Woodbury ranch, marking an early landscape effort and family involvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodbury Ranch
First Christmas in New France Brings Comfort Amid Hardship
In 1535 Jacques Cartier and 110 settlers at a St Charles River fortress near Quebec faced cold hunger and fear of locals. They kept Christmas with a log cabin mass, an improvised altar, evergreen decorations, carols, and a feast of scarce provisions despite sickness and danger.
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New World
St. Charles River
City of
Quebec
Canada
Jacques Cartier
Plover
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Putney
Santa’s Land
U.S.A
Santa
North Pole
Vermont
Green Mountains
S. C
Richmond
Colonial Williamsburg
Governor’s Mansion
Capitol
Tana
Harold
Punk
Charles
Walt Tom and
Marguerite
Jim
Jody
Edie
Our
Archie and
Doris Lake
Riverside Lumber Company
Tony, Alice, Fay and
Paul
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