Let Yule Begin Ae Front Door
Christmas in the house begins at your front door with a cheerful stocking. Decorate with greenery gifts and a yard long stockings stripe in red and white. Use brown paper for a pattern and green cuff edged with red fringe.
Turkey Holiday Cross Tradition Draws Three Boys
In Turkey a Christmas Day tradition has the head of the church tossing a wooden cross into the Bosporus. Three boys dive to recover the cross and, as the finder, tour house to house receiving food and gifts from households allowed to see it.
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The Nation’s Christmas Tree Legacy Across Time
A tribute to Christmas trees from Roosevelt’s White House ban to the annual Washington Pageant of Peace. It recalls Gifford Pinchot, Franklin Pierce lineage, and the 267 foot General Grant sequoia as symbols of peace and tradition.
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Franklin Pierce
United States
Washington, D.C
Washington Monument
Sierras
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