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Entries by Jeff Westover
Best New Christmas Music 2020: Angels We Have Heard on High Lindsey Stirling
Angels We Have Heard on High is the very fresh new video put out by Lindsey Stirling: I’m not going to lie, I’ve been a bit disappointed in Stirling the past few years. But in this video she hits the right chords in terms of messaging. Angels We Have Heard on High is based upon […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Capra’s Other Christmas Movie: Pocketful of Miracles
Pocketful of Miracles is a 1961 Frank Capra movie that is full of Christmas. Like Capra’s other Christmas movie, It’s a Wonderful Life, Pocketful of Miracles is not exactly a Christmas movie but one that enjoys cult status at Christmas time. The movie, after all, has Christmas music, Christmas trees and plenty of Christmas sentiment […]
