Christmas, or the more generic âholiday season,â always brings a rush of emotions, but none more than 2020 because of political and COVID-19 anxieties and isolation.
The Christmas season is a mixture of traditional, religious, commercial and cultural aspects that can overload even the steadiest and carefully-minded among us. This year most of us will travel less, window-shop less, visit family and friends less, socially celebrate less. We will have to work at it to make it a âHolly Jolly Christmasâ or to be âHome for Christmas (if only in our dreams).â
The modern American Christmas tradition stems from the popularization of Clement Mooreâs 1822 âTwas the Night Before Christmasâ that presented a fairy tale alternative to the Christian tradition of St. Nicholas celebrated widely throughout Europe. The poem is the basis for the modern notion of Santa Claus with his cheerful, rotund white-bearded face, calling his reindeer by name and bring
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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump are toasting their last White House Christmas in style.
The first couple donned matching black tuxedos for their final official Christmas portrait, which was taken on Dec. 10 and released on Friday.
In the portrait, by the official Trump White House photographer Andrea Hanks, Trump and Melania are all smiles while posing together on the festive grand staircase of the White House in Washington, D.C. Merry Christmas from President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, tweeted the first lady, who posed with her left hand in her pocket in the photo.
Today’s post is written by Cody White, Archivist at the National Archives at Denver and Subject Matter Expert for Native American Related Records.
On November 14th, 1962, the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (DRGRR) pulled two 53 foot flat cars, numbers 21025 and 2106, into Salida, Colorado. On hand were several U.S. Forest Service (USFS) officials as well as the DRGRR Vice President of Traffic, R.K. Bradford, all to oversee the loading of the VIP cargo – that year’s National Christmas Tree. It wasn’t an entirely smooth evolution. The tree was so massive that the bottom 15’ of branches wouldn’t fold and so they were cut off, to be reinserted when, after three more railroads and nearly 1800 miles of travel, the tree would arrive in the nation’s capital. A few days later, the forest supervisor wrote Colorado Senator Gordon Allott and sent along a San Isabel Forest hard hat joking “…as you may have heard some San Isabel trees get out of control at times.”
Christmas: Eco-friendly alternative trees
If you ve decided to give up on traditional Christmas trees this year but still want something to hang your lights on, give these eco-friendly ideas a try.
It doesn t have to be the real thing this season
Nothing says Christmas is here! like setting up the tree and covering it in sparkly lights and baubles.
But as environmental and climate awareness grows, many people are starting to look around for alternatives.
One seemingly obvious substitute is the artificial tree. But it s not as eco-friendly as it might seem. Hugely popular in some parts of the world, and designed to look like the real thing, their fake needles are made from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) which can take hundreds of years to break down. In fact, you d have to use your plastic Christmas tree for 20 years for it to be as environmentally-friendly as using a real one just once.
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