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  • December fifteenth, the First American Christmas Tree (1832). Unitarian Minister Charles Follen delighted his son and party guests with a Christmas tree as he had growing up in Germany.
    December 15
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    December fifteenth, the First American Christmas Tree (1832)....
  • December fourteenth, “I Heard the Bells On Christmas Day” (1865). Unitarian Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Wrote "Christmas Bells" (a poem later set to music and renamed "I Head the Bells On Christmas Day") just months before the end of the Civil War.
    December 14
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    December fourteenth, “I Heard the Bells On Christmas Day” (1865). Unitarian Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Wrote "Christmas Bells" (a poem later set...
  • December thirteenth, first department store Santa (1890). Department storeowner James Edgar delighted customers’ children by walking about the store on weekends dressed in a Santa costume.
    December 13
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    December thirteenth, first department store Santa (1890). Department storeowner James Edgar delighted customers’ children by walking about the store on...
  • December twelfth, Christmas Day is Clara Barton’s Birthday (1821). Clara Barton, Universalist and founder of the American Red Cross is a hero of our liberal religious faith. We remember her around the holidays season since she was born Christmas day, 1821
    December 12
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    December twelfth, Christmas Day is Clara Barton’s Birthday (1821). Clara Barton, Universalist and founder of the American Red Cross, is a hero of our...
  • December eleventh, Charles Dickens’ "A Christmas Carol" (1842). Unitarian Charles Dickens impacted the way Christmas is celebrated today more than any other individual.
    December 11
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    December eleventh, Charles Dickens’ "A Christmas Carol" (1843). Unitarian Charles Dickens impacted the way Christmas is celebrated today more than any...
  • December tenth, Christmas Scenes in "Little Women" (1868). Unitarian Louisa May Alcott wrote over a dozen Christmas themed stories and poems in addition to the Christmas scenes in "Little Women.”
    December 10
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    December tenth, Christmas Scenes in "Little Women" (1868)....
  • "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” was written by Unitarian Minister Hamilton Sears while recovering from a nervous breakdown. The melancholy carol’s conspicuous omission of any reference to Jesus or his birth has drawn criticism from orthodox Christians.
    December 9
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    December ninth, "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" (1849)....
  • In 1912, President William Howard Taft’s daughter Helen arranged to have a Christmas tree in the White House Blue Room (the first of what has since become a tradition).
    December 8
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    December eighth, first Christmas Tree in the White House Blue Room (1912). From the New York Times, December 26, 1912: "With the President and Mrs....
  • December sixth, The Modern Look and Lore of Santa Claus (1863). Universalist Thomas Nast produced over 70 illustrations of Santa. It is from Nast that the world first learned of Santa's red suit, that he gives coal if you're naughty....
    December 6
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    December sixth, The Modern Look and Lore of Santa Claus (1863). Universalist Thomas Nast produced over seventy illustrations of Santa....
  • December fifth, "Jingle Bells" (1857). First performed at a Thanksgiving event by the Sunday school children from the Unitarian Church in Savannah, GA.
    December 5
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    December fifth, "Jingle Bells" (1857)....