Carol Schultz of Florida, N.Y., planted a 4 foot Norway spruce in her yard in spring 1959. She wasn’t sure it would survive. Sixty years later, she watched as the tree was cut down in her yard, lifted ...

This week, two holidays are being celebrated across the country, as the first night of Hanukkah falls on the same day as Christmas. The Jewish celebration of the Festival of Lights begins at sundown ...

How my parents made friends one Christmas in Germany, 1959.

Here's a double-barreled greeting to cover a lot of religious territory today: Merry Christmas, and happy first night of Hanukkah. For the first time since 1959, and only the fourth time in the past ...

A few days before Christmas 1959, a middle-aged man in a checkered tweed jacket hovered near a jewelry counter in downtown Tulsa, where — unknown to him — a dark-haired young woman was watching from ...

A Christmas birthday wish and a few New Year’s stories. It is officially a hodge-podge. George Gherardi has a treasured photo from 1959. He was born on Christmas Day in Mishawaka’s St. Joseph Hospital ...

Great Christmas songs, and great versions of great Christmas songs, are as plentiful as letters to Santa Claus. It’s the holiday for which various-artists compilations were seemingly created (and why ...