Short Poems for Christmas and The New Year
A selection of old-fashioned Christmas and New Year’s verses and short poems. Welll suited for crafting your own holiday cards to celebrate the season.
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Category: Christmas
Little Jim: An Incident of the Strike at the Bonny Belle Mine
A personal tragedy inspires great Christmas time charity in “An Incident of the Strike at the Bonny Belle Mine.”
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Traditional English Christmas Puddings and Cakes
Traditional English Christmas pudding and cake recipes from 1859, including Twelfth Cake and Gingerbread.
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The Mistletoe Bough: Sad Songs That Our Grandmothers Used to Sing
This article about the song and legend of The Mistletoe Bough appeared in an early 20th century...
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The Christmas Fairy of Strasburg
The origin of the Christmas Tree is explained in this German Folk-Tale by J. Stirling Coyne, adapted by Frances Jenkins Olcott.
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