Festive magic fueled by nostalgia has been credited for the "astonishing" sale of a Christmas tree, "bought for pennies" more than a century ago, for 3,411 ($4,328) at auction on Friday. The 31-inch ...

Travel back in time to celebrate Christmas with James McCormick, his wife and their eight children at the Grand Traverse Lighthouse in Northport. In 1922, James McCormick became keeper of the Grand ...

Visitors can step back in Christmastime of a century ago at one of Charleston's plantations. Magnolia Plantation and Garden's inaugural "Home for the Holidays" exhibit through Jan. 6 showcases how ...

The home of F. W. Ruppert, 335 E. Beach St., Watsonville, lit up for Christmas and captured by photographer Ossian Hagman ...

A showplace at any time of year, Hearst Castle becomes a Christmas spectacle beginning Thanksgiving weekend. The castle is decorated as it might have been during the 1920s and ’30s, when W.R. would ...

World War I was still fresh on the minds of many in Berks County at Christmastime 1920. Though the fighting ended on Nov. 11, 1918, more than two years earlier, the horrors brought on by trench ...

What Christmas was like the year you were born | To see how Christmas has changed over the last century, Stacker explored how popular traditions, like food and decorations, emerged and evolved from ...

The Houser family lived in the Bow-Edison area, between Mount Vernon and Bellingham. There were eight children; I was one of them. Some people considered us poor because it was such a large family. If ...

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(STACKER) — On Christmas Day in 1914, British and German troops emerged from the trenches of World War I as weeks of bad weather cleared and called a truce. It was spontaneous and not approved by any ...