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Recycling Your Tree: Real Christmas Trees are Recyclable". National Christmas Tree Association. Archived from the original on 6 April 2013 . Retrieved 18 December 2012.

Homelessness is bleak, but when this becomes normality, little things do bring joy. This doesn't take away from the situation. Yanofsky, David (21 December 2017). "What the Christmas tree industrial complex looks like from space". Quartz. Archived from the original on 24 December 2017 . Retrieved 24 December 2017.Foley, Michael P. (6 September 2022). Why We Kiss under the Mistletoe: Christmas Traditions Explained. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-68451-281-2. In 1895 the President of the USA, Grover Cleveland, had the tree in the White House decorated with lights as his young daughters liked them! The tradition of the National Christmas Tree on the White House lawn started in 1923 with President Calvin Coolidge. The ham is first boiled, then painted and glazed with a mixture of egg, breadcrumbs and mustard. Lutfisk is dried ling or sathe soaked in water and lye to swell before it is cooked. Concerns have been raised [ by whom?] about people cutting down old and rare conifers, such as the Keteleeria evelyniana and Abies fraseri, for Christmas trees. [ citation needed] The early 19th century was a period of class conflict and turmoil. During this time, unemployment was high and gang rioting by the disenchanted classes often occurred during the Christmas season. In 1828, the New York city council instituted the city’s first police force in response to a Christmas riot. This catalyzed certain members of the upper classes to begin to change the way Christmas was celebrated in America.

BLM and Forest Service Christmas tree permits available". Bureau of Land Management. 30 November 2004. Archived from the original on 14 January 2014 . Retrieved 18 December 2012. Belk, Russell (2000). "Materialism and the Modern U.S. Christmas". Advertising & Society Review. 1. doi: 10.1353/asr.2000.0001. S2CID 191578074. Archived from the original on 6 May 2014 . Retrieved 5 October 2014.The most commonly used species are fir ( Abies), which have the benefit of not shedding their needles when they dry out, as well as retaining good foliage color and scent; but species in other genera are also used. Left: Tallinn Christmas Market in Estonia; Right: Christmas tree with Hanukkah Menorah next to it in Pariser Platz The Nativity. You've sung the carols, you've written the cards... but have you recalled The Christmas Story. For Christian families, this is the origin of all the celebrations.

Christmas Tree 'skirts' started as Christmas Tree 'carpets'. They were made from heavy fabric, often decorated and with fancy frills around the edges, and were used either on the floor, or on tables, and went under the trees and their stands - rather than 'around' them. They were used to catch the needles from the trees and also protect the floor or table tops from dripping wax coming from the candles on the trees. a b "Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Christmas trees—A study ends the debate over which Christmas tree, natural or artificial, is most ecological". Ellipsos Inc. 16 December 2008. Archived from the original on 1 December 2012 . Retrieved 18 December 2012. Christmas Tree Safety". About.com. Archived from the original on 7 January 2012 . Retrieved 20 December 2011. Modern Christmas trees have been related to the " tree of paradise" of medieval mystery plays that were given on 24 December, the commemoration and name day of Adam and Eve in various countries. In such plays, a tree decorated with apples (representing fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and thus to the original sin that Christ took away) and round white wafers (to represent the Eucharist and redemption) was used as a setting for the play. [6] Like the Christmas crib, the Paradise tree was later placed in homes. The apples were replaced by round objects such as shiny red balls. [13] [14] [22] [23] [24] [25] Sutton’s saturated watercolors create rich, folk-art-style scenes that reflect the classic spirit of the story. Its gentle, uplifting message is well suited for holiday sharing, while the beautiful illustrations invite lingering looks. Readers will be happy to see that the little tree’s story doesn’t end with the Christmas season, but extends into a fulfilling future.Fortin, Cassandra A. (26 October 2008). "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas (1958)". The Baltimore Sun. Archived from the original on 11 December 2013 . Retrieved 18 December 2012. The record for the most Christmas trees chopped down in two minutes is 27 and belongs to Erin Lavoie from the USA. She set the record on 19th December 2008 on the set of Guinness World Records: Die GroBten Weltrekorde in Germany. Tinsel and The Legend of the Christmas Spider

Ball, Ann (1997). Catholic Traditions in Crafts. Our Sunday Visitor. p.19. ISBN 978-0-87973-711-5. [ permanent dead link] Swedes often travel many a mile during the holiday period. Christmas Day with the Anderssons, Boxing Day with the Johanssons, quite a few also go for a week of skiing in the mountains with the Svenssons. A Study Guide for William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" (2ed.). Cengage Learning. 2016. p.29. ISBN 9781410361349. Twelfth Night saw people feasting and taking down Christmas decorations. The king cake is traditionally served in France and England on the Twelfth Night to commemorate the journey of the Magi to visit the Christ child. Werner, Emmy E. (2006). In Pursuit of Liberty: Coming of Age in the American Revolution. Greenwood Publishing Group. p.115. ISBN 9780275993061.The custom was practiced by the peasants until the early 20th century, particularly in the regions of Lesser Poland and Upper Silesia. [39] Most often the branches were hung above the wigilia dinner table on Christmas Eve. Beginning in the mid-19th century, the tradition over time was almost completely replaced by the later German practice of decorating a standing Christmas tree. [40] 18th to early 20th centuries [ edit ] Adoption by European nobility [ edit ] German Christmas tree, book illustration (1888) As Americans began to embrace Christmas as a perfect family holiday, old customs were unearthed. People looked toward recent immigrants and Catholic and Episcopalian churches to see how the day should be celebrated. In the next 100 years, Americans built a Christmas tradition all their own that included pieces of many other customs, including decorating trees, sending holiday cards and gift-giving. Mince pies were originally filled with meat as well as dried fruit and spices. It’sthought they were brought to Britain in the 13th-Century by returning Crusaders who’d enjoyed Middle Eastern dishes combining meat, fruit and spices. In the early 17th century, a wave of religious reform changed the way Christmas was celebrated in Europe. When Oliver Cromwell and his Puritan forces took over England in 1645, they vowed to rid England of decadence and, as part of their effort, cancelled Christmas. By popular demand, Charles II was restored to the throne and, with him, came the return of the popular holiday. Their use at public entertainments, charity bazaars and in hospitals made them increasingly familiar however, and in 1906 a charity was set up specifically to ensure even poor children in London slums "who had never seen a Christmas tree" would enjoy one that year. [66] Anti-German sentiment after World War I briefly reduced their popularity [67] but the effect was short-lived, [68] and by the mid-1920s the use of Christmas trees had spread to all classes. [69] In 1933 a restriction on the importation of foreign trees led to the "rapid growth of a new industry" as the growing of Christmas trees within Britain became commercially viable due to the size of demand. [70] By 2013 the number of trees grown in Britain for the Christmas market was approximately eight million [71] and their display in homes, shops and public spaces a normal part of the Christmas season.