LENOX — Bonnie Eastwood’s fascination with the Victorian and Gilded Ages started early, tracing back to a childhood spent in the homes of her great-grandmother and nana, where the style of those eras ...
Join David Bouchier for the annual Victorian Christmas program -- an afternoon of seasonal music and stories about the traditions, myths and entertainments of Christmas a century and more ago. It airs ...
Editor’s note: This story is an update of one that ran in 2013. Read the original here. Many of our American society’s most enduring Christmas traditions come from the Victorian Age. Our idea of Santa ...
On a chilly December night in Sandy Spring, Md., dozens of people crammed into the Woodlawn Manor for a Victorian-era Yuletide dance lesson, the wood floors creaking under the uncertain steps of ...
Visitors are being invited to step back in time at Burton Constable Hall with a new immersive festive experience, ’Twas the Night Before Christmas. Set on Christmas Eve in the 1850s, the experience, ...
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Early Christians didn’t annually celebrate Jesus’ birth; the Dec. 25 tradition emerged in the fourth century and ...
Join David Bouchier for the annual Victorian Christmas program -- an afternoon of seasonal music and stories about the traditions, myths and entertainments of Christmas a century and more ago. It airs ...
Today, people consider "Yule" synonymous with "Christmas." But centuries ago, Yule meant something different — a pagan mid-winter festival,... How cozy Yuletide traditions got their start with raging ...