celebration

HISTORY

Christmas music feels eternal, doesn't it? There's a reason for that. The carols filling shopping malls and church services today were composed generations ago. Each one carries stories from eras we can barely imagine.

THINGS

"New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls, and humbug resolutions." —Mark Twain For thousands of years, civilizations around the...



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