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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1996
Page
11
A fife and drum corps plays a Christmas tune at Colonial Williamsburg as the restored Virginia village recreates life before the Revolutionary War. The colonial period shows Christmas customs different from today with church feasts and gifts less common.
The Victorian era spanned 1837 to 1901 under Queen Victoria. In 1823 Clement Moore wrote A Visit From St Nicholas shaping Santa in a sleigh drawn by reindeer.
The frontier life was harsher than Eastern cities with strict religious settlers deeming Christmas sinful. Yet many pioneers celebrated as families back East did or followed customs from their ancestral homelands.
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