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Life In the Berkshires

CONNECTIONS: Old-fashioned New England New Year’s celebrations

The New Year celebration far outstripped the celebration of Christmas in New England.

by Carole Owens
Posted on December 31, 2019
Life In the Berkshires

CONNECTIONS: Christmas — as we know it — began in Stockbridge

Christmas as we know it—the trees and wreaths, bells and caroling, gifts and good food—is a 19th-century invention. The authors, literally, of the modern celebration were a Stockbridge spinster and a German immigrant: Catharine Sedgwick and Charles Follen.

by Carole Owens
Posted on December 18, 2018
Life In the Berkshires

CONNECTIONS: Puritans banned Christmas, Stockbridge restored it

The road from outlawing the celebration of Christmas to Christmas as we know it was a long one: 207 years from 1659 to 1856.

by Carole Owens
Posted on December 12, 2017
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