Ahh, Christmas Past, not to be confused with one of three spectral spirits who visited that miserly curmudgeonly blackheart of the Christmas spirit, Ebenezer Scrooge, in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas ...

Christmas Past, a homebred champion filly for the late Cynthia Phipps, was euthanized Dec. 13 at age 29 because of complications from the infirmities of old age. She was buried at the Marchmont ...

When English Puritans outlawed Christmas in 1647, it was not without good reason. When American Puritans, in turn, outlawed Christmas in Massachusetts between 1659 and 1681, it too was not without ...

In Part Five of the series I began to examine A Christmas Carol to discover why Ebenezer Scrooge changed so dramatically. I showed that we see the tiniest hint of his transformation in his interaction ...

Animated television specials are among the most cherished holiday traditions of yuletide revelers young and old. Mention “A Charlie Brown Christmas” (1965), “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (1964) or ...

‘Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents,” grumbles 15-year-old Jo March in “Little Women,” the 1868 novel by Louisa May Alcott. Jo’s complaint is a famous first line in American ...