Make a joyful Christmas Light Handprint Craft with simple materials (construction paper, marker, scissors, glue). This easy ...

“’Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.” These words come from the first two lines of immensely popular poem “A Visit from St.

Christmas garlands are the perfect thing to decorate anything from a mantelpiece and stair bannister to a doorway or even the dinner table for that special festive touch. And while you can, of course, ...

Where Does the Time Go? Hopefully your business emails and frantic work texts have slowed to a trickle by now. The Christmas season offers us a time to reflect on the year past and to consider what ...

In 1906, a new carol appeared in “The English Hymnal,” an influential collection of British church music. With words by British poet Christina Rossetti, set to a tune by composer Gustav Holst, it ...

Editor’s Note: Clement Clarke Moore (1779 – 1863) wrote the poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” also known as “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” in 1822. It is believed that a family friend sent a copy ...

Nov. 24—JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — Four years after local author Robet Forte's Christmas poem "A Tale of Christmas" was first published, the magical tale can now be found in hardcover print, complete with ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was an intensely public poet and an intensely private man. His own griefs, and they were considerable, barely make an appearance in all the large body of his ...

It is one of the most famous poems in the English language—almost as famous as Christmas itself. A single word is enough to get going: “‘Twas”. You know the rest, or probably quite a bit of it.

‘Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: / ‘God is not dead, nor doth He sleep,’” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow proclaims in the tremendous final verse of his 1865 Civil War poem “Christmas Bells.” We ...

This Christmas garden poem was written for this column more than 30 years ago. It is still the most requested encore of any column I have written and, as a gift to my readers, I grant copywrite ...

Midge Bilbrey posed with some of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren at Christmastime in 2016. Karla Ward [email protected] For as far back as I can remember, my mom has been giving poems ...