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New England Christmas Customs Through the Early Era
A Daughters of American Revolution talk recounts Puritan New England opposition to Christmas. Pilgrims worked on Dec 25, laws punished festive acts, and public Christmas observance was banned for decades. Judge Sewall documented attitudes as Christmas faded from colonial life.
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New England
Don Eplen
Daughters of American Evolution
Massachusetts
Bradford
Sewall
Church of England
Boston
Melcher
Old Narragansett