Be sure to listen to Matt Spalding discuss the history and importance of Christmas in America. Tune in here!
How did early Americans celebrate Christmas? Since Christmas is also a time of giving, what are traditional ways Americans have done so? Is there a particular story about Christmas from the founding or other times in America that is relevant today?
Be sure to tune in to hear Spalding answer these questions and more!
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We have two sets of Christmas tree decorations, which we alternate from year to year. The set with traditional colored lights and balls, toys and candy canes has traditional silver tinsel; and the set with white lights, seashells, sandpaper ornaments, strings of pearls, bottle green glass balls and feathered doves has iridescent plastic tinsel.
Tinsel finishes a tree and increases its luminescence.