Charlie Poole, a spiritual predecessor to musicians like Bob Dylan and Jerry Garcia, was born March 22, 1892, in North Carolina.

Princess Anne's daughter, Zara Tindall, puts a spring twist on her velvet Christmas suit from the Princess of Wales' 'Together at Christmas' carol service as she attended Cheltenham Festival with ...

A Christmas Carol will enjoy its tenth festive season at the Old Vic. Matthew Warchus’ production, adapted by Jack Thorne, has played to almost half a million people in London over the last decade. It ...

Every year in January, renowned apple grower John Bunker of Maine gathers friends, neighbors, and local farmers together for a wassail. John Bunker: The wassail is a super old celebration of the apple ...

On the first day of Christmas, astrology gave to me... 12 zodiac signs doing the most Getty The holidays are full of traditions, but few are as instantly recognizable as the "12 Days of Christmas." ...

A Christmas Carol is usually read as a Victorian morality tale about capitalism and compassion. Yet an autographed script written by Charles Dickens during the American Civil War raises the ...

Settlers in frontier Appalachia — many of them Scots-Irish — faced hard journeys on rough roads and trails through terrain crisscrossed with mountain ridges and valleys cut by rivers and creeks. In ...

From “Silent Night” to “Jingle Bells,” Christmas carols are some of the most familiar songs of the season, and some of the oldest. Stephanie Sy explores why most popular music changes with time, but ...

Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, and her daughter, Princess Charlotte, opened the “Together at Christmas” carol service with a piano duet that delighted audiences across the United Kingdom. The ...

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Have you ever wondered what "figgy pudding" is while belting out your favorite Christmas carol? Or puzzled over whether sugar plums are really plums while listening to the Nutcracker? Old Christmas ...