G M L <setexman57@...> wrote: 1. What country are you from? I come from Malta 2. What is your favorite Christmas tradition? Setting up the Crib. I have...
A TV station in Syracuse, New York asked me for some help with a Christmas Day program they were planning. The theme they selected was "Silent Night." I sent...
Please invite your friends to join this group. It would be nice to have more members from your area. Bill http://groups.yahoo.com/group/christmasinternational/...
Welcome Dorrie! Its so nice to hear how other people celebrate Christmas, especially from countries that we might not know a lot about. Would love to hear more...
Dear Jane and Dale, Nice to hear from you. Well..... Malta is a very little island just south of the Sicily - right smack in the middle of the Mediterranean...
Thanks Dorrie, Now I have an idea of where Malta is located. Sounds like the "Global warming, or Freezing" has affected your little part of the world too....
About a half an hour north of Detroit is a small Bavarian town named Frankenmuth. There you will not only find a charming Bavarian settlement but you will also...
In some parts of the high Pyrenees, especially along the Spanish- French border, Christmas snows make the mountains so impassable that the Nativity is...
This is the celebration of the ritual purification of Mary, which, as required by Jewish law, took place forty days after the birth of her child. Candlemas is...
CEREMONY UPON CANDLEMAS EVE by Robert Herrick Down with the Rosemary, and so Down with the Baies and Mistletoe; Down with the Holly, Ivie, all Wherewith ye...
When New Year's Day is past and gone; Christmas is with some people done; But further some will it extend, And at Twelfth Day their Christmas end. Some people...
Bill - Is there any way the rest of us can see, or purchase, the video? Thanks. ... From: Joey B To: christmasinternational@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday,...
A Christmas memory from the late Broadway superstar Gwen Verdon (Damn Yankees, Sweet Charity, Chicago, New Girl in Town) ---- I was about four years old and...
Here's a true Christmas story that was written nearly a half century ago by France's well-known singing star Edith Piaf: My father was a circus performer in a...
The "Search" box for messages in this group does not search anything that was posted here before Yahoo converted this from a "club" to a "group." Since there...
In St.Vincent and the Grenadines, Vincentians have found a unique way of celebrating Christmas with activities that take place from 2 am for the nine days ...
Thanks to Lucy for the information about the seven fish --- I am of Italian descent and my family still follows the Christmas Eve tradition of a meatless meal....
Salvadorans, like most if not all Latin Americans, value family and put it first during Christmas celebrations. Family gatherings begin at about 7:00 pm (on...
Long, long ago, in a land far away, lived a perfect little tree named Small Pine. Small Pine hoped to maintain its perfect form and be selected by the Queen as...
A charming story is told of Pepita, a poor Mexican girl who had no gift to present the Christ Child at Christmas Eve Services. As Pepita walked slowly to the...
The word "chrysanthemum" comes from the Greek words meaning "golden flower," but a German legend refers to another of the many colors of chrysanthemums. One...
After the band had concluded its part of the concert, Jane Hicklin was putting her instrument away when she heard the choir begin to sing. "It was `Silent...
Jacquie Anning of Prairie Village, Kan., a suburb of Kansas City, recalled Christmas Eve 1949, when she was a 10-year-old in the choir at St. Paul's Episcopal...
Before the Communist Revolution of 1917, Christmas and Epiphany celebrations included visits from Saint Nicholas, the Baboushka (an elderly woman somewhat like...
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