Covid Christmas
Covid Christmas
Christmas MusicChristmas News

Best of New Christmas Music 2020: Covid Christmas by Dara Schindelka

The Covid Christmas is the thing of 2020 so why not sing about it. That’s the theme of this new song from Canadian singer Dara Schindelka: As she told CTV News, Schindelka did not write this song for making a record. She wrote it as a coping mechanism for dealing with, well, COVID. “Schindelka is a music and arts education teacher at the public school in La Ronge. She said …

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Satoshi Gogo
Satoshi Gogo
Christmas MusicChristmas News

Best New Christmas Music 2020: Satoshi Gogo

We’re pleased to introduce you to our first selection of the Best of New Christmas Music Videos 2020, from Satashi Gogo’s Winter Wishes Christmas album and his acoustic rendition of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas: Satoshi Gogo is a Japanese composer / acoustic guitarist based in Japan. He was born in 1988 and started playing the guitar at the age of 12. In 2004, he won the first prize …

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Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Christmas LegendsChristmas NewsChristmas PastChristmas Stories

The Tears of Charles Dickens

It is said the tears of Charles Dickens were shed as he wrote A Christmas Carol. During a brief period in the fall of 1843 Dickens would take late-night strolls on the streets of London as he mulled the story he was creating over and over in his head. The more the story came together, the more he wept. Some historians claim the story was written out of desperation. They …

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Thanksgiving

The 19th Century Thanksgiving

The 19th century Thanksgiving is much like the Christmas celebrated in the 19th century: it is very misunderstood. While most know that Thanksgiving was officially declared a national holiday during the later half of the 19th century they do not know how much Thanksgiving was celebrated before it became an official “day” on the national calendar. Thanksgiving long before the 19th century in America was a time-honor family tradition. In …

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Virtual Thanksgiving
Virtual Thanksgiving
Christmas NewsChristmas TrendsThanksgiving

The Virtual Thanksgiving

The Virtual Thanksgiving is nothing new. We have been doing it for years. What makes it different now is that many, many people will have to do it due to restrictions on family gatherings. Without getting into the politics the fact that Thanksgiving has to go virtual is not the end of the world. In fact, it can be a fun event that kicks off a whole new level of …

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A Visit from St. Nicholas
A Visit from St. Nicholas
Christmas HistoryChristmas LegendsRetro ChristmasVintage Christmas

The Story of A Visit from St. Nicholas

A Visit from St. Nicholas is both a story and a poem that has survived nearly two centuries of Christmas celebration. It is arguably the only published work that can even come close to rivaling Dicken’s A Christmas Carol in both fame and annual reading. But do you know the story behind the story? Picture it: it’s a snowy Christmas Eve around the year 1821 in New York state. Clement …

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Shop Early for Thanksgiving
Shop Early for Thanksgiving
Christmas NewsThanksgiving

Shop Early for Thanksgiving

You will need to shop early for Thanksgiving this year. Word got out fast about early Christmas shopping but few know of the problems coming in shopping for Thanksgiving. Significant food shortages on traditional Thanksgiving items are already showing with Thanksgiving now about a month away. Major food distributors in the United States are scrambling to meet the anticipated needs. Some are now saying that items such as boxed stuffing, …

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Victorian Era Snowball fight
Victorian Era Snowball fight
Christmas VideoVintage Christmas

Victorian Era Snowball Fight

A Victorian Era snowball fight is going viral and we just have to pile on. The two videos below show the early technology of film-making met with 21st century technology — and the results are stunning. Take a look, in color, at this everyday snowball fight from 124 years ago: This film has been known about for a long time. The 1896 French short silent film was directed and produced …

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Thanksgiving 2020
Thanksgiving 2020
Christmas NewsThanksgiving

Families Carefully Planning Thanksgiving 2020

Thanksgiving 2020 is going to happen. The annual holidays survey commissioned by MyMerryChristmas.com shows that Thanksgiving has been on the mind of a lot of people nearly all year – and they are not going to skip it. 77 percent of people are expecting a slightly bigger family gathering and a whopping 84% say Covid will not be a factor in celebrating Thanksgiving. ~ Careful with Covid ~ However, that …

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Christmas News

Halloween at Home: Just 1 in 10 Plan to Trick or Treat

Halloween will see only 1 in 10 braving the elements to trick or treat this year. Survey respondents of MyMerryChristmas.com’s annual survey of holidays said that long before the CDC recommended folks forego the door-to-door tradition this year. It is just one many holiday trends shifting in 2020. World events such as the pandemic, election year politics and civil unrest have changed everything about holiday celebration, as we shared previously …

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Christmas Trends 2020
Christmas Trends 2020
Christmas NewsChristmas Trends

Christmas Trends Shift for 2020

Christmas trends are shifting significantly for 2020 — to the surprise of almost no one. While nobody saw this coming last Christmas the cold realities of 2020 have spelled for a different Christmas thanks to a variety of factors: a pandemic, widespread unemployment, retail closures and election year politics. For more than two decades MyMerryChristmas.com has conducted an annual survey of Christmas trends. The survey is always conducted offline and …

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Queen Charlotte
Queen Charlotte
Christmas History

Heroes of the 18th Century Christmas

The 18th century Christmas is kind of the ugly step-sister to Christmas of the 19th century. The Victorian Era of Queen Victoria, Charles Dickens and other Christmas superstars seems to hog the holiday limelight. Yet we could not have had the 19th century Christmas without some key movers-and-shakers in the 18th century. It was a critical time in world history. The British Empire had so expanded to nearly every corner …

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