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Pumpkin Pie and Christmas
Pumpkin Pie and Christmas
Christmas News

Pumpkin Pie and Christmas Day

  • Jeff Westover
  • Posted onJul 28, 2021 at 3:12 PM
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Pumpkin pie is a historic ingredient of Christmas. December 25th is National Pumpkin Pie Day in the United States, a fact that very few know. Pumpkin pie today is as popular as it has ever been and yet few see its relation to Christmas. Strangely it is one national day …

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Christmas Fireworks
Christmas Fireworks
Christmas HistoryChristmas Features

Thank Christmas for Your 4th of July Fireworks

  • Jeff Westover
  • Posted onJul 4, 2020 at 12:46 AM
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Fireworks at Christmas are not a thing many people think about. For many folks, Christmas is long associated with snow, stockings and jingle bells. None of that seems to fit with the colorful summer traditions of fireworks. But the truth is that without Christmas you likely would not celebrate Independence …

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Coronavirus Christmas Story
Coronavirus Christmas Story
Christmas News

A Coronavirus Christmas Story

  • Jeff Westover
  • Posted onApr 27, 2020 at 3:40 AM
  • 1 Comments
(Special to MyMerryChristmas.com) – America can be a place of fences. Not so much “back East” (as they call it). But “out west” (as they also call it) where the suburbs that sprawled during the 1940s through the 1980s it is not uncommon to find what they call “tract homes” …

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Coronavirus at Christmas
Coronavirus at Christmas
Christmas News

What Coronavirus Means for Christmas

  • Jeff Westover
  • Posted onMar 4, 2020 at 4:00 PM
  • 2 Comments
In 1918 the Spanish Flu pandemic hit in three waves – once in the spring, then again in the fall and once again in the new year of 1919. The second wave of the flu was the most deadly, killing more than 195,000 people during that stage of the event. …

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Finding Christmas in Thanksgiving

  • Jeff Westover
  • Posted onNov 4, 2018 at 9:30 AM
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A recent survey revealed sharp divisions in when the celebration of Christmas begins. Nearly a third said Christmas begins right after Halloween, a third said Christmas begins right after Thanksgiving and for another third the celebration of Christmas is something done every day. In recent years many have insisted that …

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Christmas HistoryChristmas NewsSacred Christmas

Understand Easter to Understand Christmas

  • Jeff Westover
  • Posted onMar 21, 2017 at 12:00 AM
  • 1 Comments
In a world growing more secular by the day there seems to be a serious decline in the understanding of what makes Easter so significant. A quick Google search about the “facts” of Easter reveals stunning statistics on how many chocolate eggs are consumed, how much fake grass is purchased …

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Christmas and death
Christmas and death
Sacred Christmas

Christmas Connection with the Dead

  • Jeff Westover
  • Posted onNov 1, 2016 at 10:02 AM
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Many limit the Christmas connection with the dead as merely something from the imagination of Charles Dickens. As Scrooge is haunted by Marley he encounters many of the dead from his family and youth – and that has a huge connection to all that was sacred to those who celebrated …

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Christmas
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Christmas in a Political Year

  • Jeff Westover
  • Posted onOct 14, 2016 at 11:00 AM
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I recently engaged in conversation with one of our international members who observed, “You Americans ruin Christmas every four years”. Her reference, of course, was to the rancor of this particular election and how divisive it has been for everyone – even those out of the country. I had to …

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Christmas FeaturesChristmas News

More than a Half Million Lights on One Tree

  • Jeff Westover
  • Posted onNov 28, 2015 at 6:00 PM
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Australia isn’t to be outdone by anyone in the world when it comes to Christmas. There’s no snow, few natural Christmas trees, and little that actually originates in Australia when it comes to Christmas. But they celebrate it big time and they want the world to know it. From their …

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Ancient Connections of Thanksgiving and Christmas

  • Jeff Westover
  • Posted onNov 24, 2015 at 10:42 AM
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Here is some fodder for your Thanksgiving day discussions around the turkey — which is the more sacred holiday in America, Thanksgiving or Christmas? Check your learning of history at the door. This history of both holidays goes back further than you know — and both are related to each …

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Christmas FeaturesChristmas Memories

Christmas in Billings, Montana 1954

  • Jeff Westover
  • Posted onSep 18, 2015 at 4:59 AM
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Early last week, James Carroll of Tyler, Texas, came to Billings for the second time in his life. It was an enjoyable visit, but it was hard to top that first one, on Christmas Eve 1954. Carroll was a 23-year-old Army private at the time, just out of basic training …

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Racism and Christmas

  • Jeff Westover
  • Posted onAug 30, 2015 at 11:33 PM
  • 1 Comments
Christmas has endured many controversies over the course of its history. Most usually center on religious disputes or how much Christmas imposes of itself on parts of society that do not want it. But in recent years Christmas has seemingly become embroiled in an important ongoing societal dialogue: racism. The …

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