Whether you celebrate with a real tree, a fake tree or no tree at all, have you ever wondered where and when the tradition of trimming the tree began? Many Christmas traditions are older than the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In addition to the staggering tree in St George’s Hall, a 16-foot-high Christmas tree was decorated in the Crimson Drawing Room, ...

WASHINGTON (WCSC) — President Calvin Coolidge lit the first national Christmas tree on White House grounds back on Christmas Eve of 1923, establishing a tradition that continues to this day. In the ...

When this year’s Christmas tree arrived at the White House just before Thanksgiving by horse-drawn wagon, the conveyance brought more than an evergreen: It also carried more than a century of history.

On December 22, 1882, a new kind of holiday magic flickered to life, forever changing how we celebrate Christmas. That day, Edward H. Johnson, an inventor and vice president of Thomas Edison’s ...

Senior Citizens created the “People Pleasing People” tree for the 1975 Christmas Tree Festival in Lima. For two centuries, the classic “O Tannenbaum” (which led to today’s “O Christmas Tree”) has been ...

Many Christmas staples feel timeless, but historians note they often began as games, folk customs or practical rituals. What we now call Christmas is a patchwork of theology, folklore, economics and ...

POTTSVILLE — In 1861, the year the Civil War started, Mary Mateer became the first United States postmistress in St. Clair. In 1923, Anne Werner became the first woman elected to the St. Clair borough ...

AMSTERDAM — Discussion of the history of Christmas tree ornaments as well as making ornaments will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 15, at the Walter Elwood Museum, 100 Church St. Christmas ...

Christmas is a Christian holiday that observes the birth of Jesus. But did you know that the earliest followers of Jesus did not annually commemorate his birth? Or that Santa Claus is inspired by the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whether you celebrate with a real tree, a fake tree or no tree at all, have you ever wondered where and when the tradition of ...