Kids in the US have been writing letters to Santa for well over a century. Those letters are a fascinating, hilarious and sometimes jaw-dropping window into our own history.
My middle kid is obsessed with “Carol of the Bells,” but even he’s a little stunned by this one.
Today in 1965, CBS broadcast “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” It's one of the iconic TV holiday specials today, but pretty much everyone who put the TV special together thought it was going to be a failure.
The cover says “Please don’t listen to this record.” Don’t say he didn’t warn you!
Thanks, Charles Osgood, for spending one more Sunday morning with us.
This is purely about words, with absolutely no other connotations. What on earth are you suggesting, reader?
Nothing says the holidays like a creepy devil creature hitting you with sticks! In some European countries, there are parades focused on Father Christmas's evil counterpart, Krampus.
A bouncy, upbeat version of a holiday standard, from a band that deserves another listen.
This month in 1893, the formal start of an effort to build a new kind of seagoing vessel: a ship with rolling wheels.
They point out that Kris Kringle “wore long hair and a fuzzy beard/Before any hippie was ever here.” Because the Sixties.
