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.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreA personal tragedy inspires great Christmas time charity in “An Incident of the Strike at the Bonny Belle Mine.”
Read MoreTraditional English Christmas pudding and cake recipes from 1859, including Twelfth Cake and Gingerbread.
Read MoreThis article about the song and legend of The Mistletoe Bough appeared in an early 20th century children’s encyclopedia (1911), The Book of Knowledge. I’ve included a clip from a silent film of the same title that I found on Archive.org. Then there was Thomas Haynes Bayly. We do not know his songs so well as our grandfathers and grandmothers used to know them; but we know at least “The Mistletoe Bough,” and we have heard of “She wore a Wreath of Roses,” and of “Oh, no! We Never Mention Her,” of “I’ll hang my Harp on a Willow Tree,” and...
Read MoreThe origin of the Christmas Tree is explained in this German Folk-Tale by J. Stirling Coyne, adapted by Frances Jenkins Olcott.
Read MoreHistory Spinner is an eclectic archive of curious old stories, historical articles, obscure poetry, and forgotten tales, featuring antique photographs and images from our personal collection.