Welcome to 12 Days of an Eliza Hamilton Christmas!
Hope you all had a lovely Christmas. Haven’t you always wondered how the holidays were celebrated a few hundred years ago? If so, I’ve got a treat for you.
The tradition of 12 days of Christmas, or Christmastide refers to the time between Christmas Day (December 25) and Epiphany (January 6), with Day 1 on December 25 and Day 12 on January 5. For our purposes we are starting the day after Christmas, which some claim to be the more traditional. Who knows? We’re here to have fun!
Check in here every day, and find recipes, crafts, and wonderful blog posts from some of your favorite historical mystery authors: Christine Trent, Susanna Calkins, Mally Becker, Joyce Tremel, and Anna Lee Huber. In between will be a few posts from me. On some days, there will even be prizes. Check back in tomorrow, leave comments, and at the end of the 12 Days, I will be giving a $25 Amazon gift certificate to the person who comments the most! Cheers!
Thank you for all the research you and your guests did in finding these stories to share with us.
I wonder if we, as a population whole, would be happier if we lived with some of the simpler things like many of these people did. Especially the children in the story Another Kind of Christmas. I don't think we appreciate things like they did.
Growing up, we did this tradional celebration
The tree was put up on Christmas eve and not taken down until Jan 6th the Epiphany. I grew up thinking this was the norm and how strange when others put up a fake tree on Thanksgiving weekend. Traditions
I love the history! And the recipes.
Thank you for doing this.
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This sounds like a lot of fun to learn some history surrounding Christmas. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Cindi Knowles
What a treat! I am excited to read the Lace Widow, and it's great to learn more about various traditions. Growing up we always had a Christmas pudding :)