An Alcott Family Christmas

An Alcott Family Christmas
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996
Genre: Christmas stories
ISBN: 9780823412655

Christmas is coming and Louisa May and her family are very excited. The Alcotts are poor and Louisa and her sisters can't buy Marmee and Pa presents. But Louisa, who plans to be a famous writer someday, has written a play that the girls will perform. Afterward the biggest treat of all will be their Christmas dinner, the first big meal they've had in a long time. But when a poor neighbor comes calling for their help, the Alcotts do what they must in the true spirit of Christmas.

Home for the Holidays

Home for the Holidays
Author: Heather Vogel Frederick
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2012-10-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1442406860

Four girls continue their mother-daughter book club, reading Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol," but from unexpected blizzards to a sledding disaster, nothing goes as planned.

Colonial Food

Colonial Food
Author: Ann Chandonnet
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2013-06-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0747813795

Of the one hundred Pilgrims who settled at Plymouth in 1620, nearly half had died within months of hardship, starvation or disease. One of the colony's most urgent challenges was to find ways to grow and prepare food in the harsh, unfamiliar climate of the New World. From the meager subsistence of the earliest days and the crucial help provided by Native Americans, to the first Thanksgiving celebrations and the increasingly sophisticated fare served in inns and taverns, this book provides a window onto daily life in Colonial America. It shows how European methods and cuisine were adapted to include native produce such as maize, potatoes, beans, peanuts and tomatoes, and features a section of authentic menus and recipes, including apple tansey and crab soup, which can be used to prepare your own colonial meals.

Americana

Americana
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 522
Release: 1986
Genre: Americana
ISBN:

Christmas in Ritual & Tradition: Christian and Pagan (Illustrated Edition)

Christmas in Ritual & Tradition: Christian and Pagan (Illustrated Edition)
Author: Clement A. Miles
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2023-12-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan is a study of the history and folklore surrounding Christmas holidays in several countries. It is an amazing collection of Christmas-related traditions from the first introductions of Christianity to the early 20th century. The book covers the history of Christmas as a Christian feast day and how that developed. It also discusses pre-Christian festivals and observances and how a lot of them survived by being given a Christian veneer although the overt paganism disappeared. Clement A. Miles (1881-1918), an author and translator, was a member of the Folk-Lore Society. He had been for many years on T. Fisher Unwin's literary staff and he was the author of an important work: Christmas in Ritual and Tradition. Miles possessed a wide knowledge of European languages, and translated numerous works from French and Italian.