Showing posts with label tradition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tradition. Show all posts
Thursday, December 12, 2024

Old-Fashioned Holidays

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Having recently discovered we own a copy of Washington Irving's SKETCH BOOK, published around 1820 (one of the books we inherited from m...
Thursday, November 23, 2023

Thanksgiving and Traditions

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Happy American Thanksgiving! Ordinarily we spend the weekend after Turkey Day at ChessieCon, formerly Darkover Grand Council, which has trad...
Thursday, December 08, 2022

Commercialized Holidays

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Recently I saw a Facebook post lamenting the materialistic nature of the Christmas season nowadays. The holidays focus too much on buying an...
Thursday, December 23, 2021

Anti-Santas

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You've probably heard of Krampus, the horned, hairy, bipedal monster from Austrian legend who prowls in December, mainly on Saint Nichol...
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Thursday, December 31, 2020

Happy New Year

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Here's a page of New Year's customs from around the world: New Year's Traditions One immediately notices the universal them...
Thursday, March 28, 2019

What Makes Private Property Private?

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Cory Doctorow's latest column explores the doctrine of "terra nullius" (nobody's land), which he traces back to John Locke...
Thursday, January 03, 2019

New Year Customs

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Happy New Year! Do you eat black-eyed peas for luck on New Year's Day? Although my grandmother, who grew up in rural North Carolina, o...
Thursday, December 22, 2016

Inventing Traditions

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I think I've previously mentioned one of my favorite seasonal books, THE BATTLE FOR CHRISTMAS, by Stephen Nissenbaum. The "Battle...