Christmas in America

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Christmas in America
Nancy S. Grant
With more than 140 full-color photographs
Some of our fondest memories are of Christmas—feasting, frolicking, decorating, wrapping and unwrapping, and visiting with family and friends. In America, no other holiday quite compares.
Since the settling of Jamestown, Virginia, more than 350 years ago, Christmas in America has been evolving. From Massachusetts to New Mexico, from Florida to Alaska, Americans celebrate the holiday each year with vim and vigor, and, being an ingenious lot, continue to think up new variations on old themes, mingling religious convictions and folk customs into something distinctly American.
Christmas in America brings to life the spirit of this magical and multifaceted time of the year in more than 140 full-color images by some of the world's leading photographers. A candlelight Christmas service in Cambridge, Ohio, a serape- and sombrero-clad Santa in San Antonio, Texas, a simple manger scene in Lafayette,... Tovább

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Christmas in America
Nancy S. Grant
With more than 140 full-color photographs
Some of our fondest memories are of Christmas—feasting, frolicking, decorating, wrapping and unwrapping, and visiting with family and friends. In America, no other holiday quite compares.
Since the settling of Jamestown, Virginia, more than 350 years ago, Christmas in America has been evolving. From Massachusetts to New Mexico, from Florida to Alaska, Americans celebrate the holiday each year with vim and vigor, and, being an ingenious lot, continue to think up new variations on old themes, mingling religious convictions and folk customs into something distinctly American.
Christmas in America brings to life the spirit of this magical and multifaceted time of the year in more than 140 full-color images by some of the world's leading photographers. A candlelight Christmas service in Cambridge, Ohio, a serape- and sombrero-clad Santa in San Antonio, Texas, a simple manger scene in Lafayette, Louisiana, and an elaborate display of lights on a hotel in Los Angeles, California, illustrate a few of the ways in which Americans choose to celebrate. Nancy S. Grant's homespun text tells of America's earliest Christmases, the mixing of various cultural traditions through the centuries, and Christmas as it is joyfully observed today.
Christmas in America, which captures both the splendor and spirituality of the season, will warm the heart and charm the soul. Vissza