The Everything Family Christmas Book (75 page)

Charles II, King, 13, 16

A Charlie Brown Christmas
(television program), 249, 293

Children

Christmas crafts for, 356–60

party ideas for, 340–41

A Child’s Christmas in Wales
(television program), 245

Chile, 315

China, 319

Christianity, early, 5

Christkind/Kris Kringle, 26, 34, 307–8

“Christmas–1863” (Longfellow), 194–95

Christmas around the World (television program), 242

Christmas at Pops
(television program), 241

Christmas bonus, 56–57

Christmas cards, 16, 54–55, 350, 358

Christmas Carol
(television program), 247

A Christmas Carol
(Dickens), 16, 88–147

“A Christmas Carol” (Rossetti), 199–200

A Christmas Carol
(television program), 245

Christmas carols, 11, 16, 203–31, 306

Christmas Comes to Willow Creek
(television program), 245

Christmas crackers, 305, 306

Christmas Eve, 27

around the world, 303, 304, 305, 308, 310, 312, 314, 316

traditions of, 35–36

Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
(television program), 242

Christmas in My Hometown
(television program), 248

Christmas in Vienna
(television program), 246

“Christmas Lights” (Irish), 191

Christmas pie, 61

Christmas Rose, 42, 302

Christmas seals, 55–56

“Christmas Secrets” (Irish), 192–93

A Christmas Special … With Love, Mac Davis
(television program), 242

Christmas stamps, 56

The Christmas Star (television program), 247

Christmas trees, 18, 41, 42, 46–50, 286, 305, 307, 309, 313, 318, 319, 334, 348

introduction of, 15

legends and history, 47–48

ornaments for, 50

safety precautions, 344

selection and set-up, 349

“Christmas Trees” (Frost), 187–89

The Christmas Wish
(television program), 248

Christmas with Luciano Pavarotti (television program), 243

Christmas with the King Family (television program), 240

Church, Francis P., 19, 31, 86, 87

Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, 38

Church of St. Nicholas, 22–23

Church of the Nativity, 5, 317

Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
(television program), 247

A Claymation Christmas Celebration (television program), 245

Cobweb parties, 61

Coca-Cola (Santa images), 19, 31, 279

Cole, Henry, 54 Colombia, 315–16

Constantine, Emperor, 5, 7, 23

Constantine XI, Emperor, 22

Coplon, Sam, 288

Coptic church, 316

Costa Rica, 39, 314

Cox, Channing H., 285

Crèches, 39, 302, 303, 313, 314, 315, 320

Cromwell, Oliver, 12 Czech Republic, 39, 312–13

Date of Christmas

alternative, 8–9, 311, 316, 317, 318, 320

setting, 6–9

“Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly” (carol), 207

Decorating, 347–60

creating traditions, 334

ideas for, 353–56

indoors, 349–50

natural trimmings, 351–53

outdoors, 350–51 parties, 338

safety precautions, 344–45

De La Mare, Walter, 186

Denmark, 27, 36, 48, 55, 309

Dickens, Charles, 16, 88, 147

Die Fledermaus
(television program), 246

Diff’rent Strokes
(television program), 243

Disney’s Christmas Fantasy on Ice
(television program), 246

Dix, William Chatterton, 230

Dobson, W. A., 54
Donny and Marie
(television program), 241

Doyle, Arthur Conan, 148, 166

Dr. Kildare
(television program), 237

A Dream of Christmas
(television program), 240

Druids, 53, 331

The Ed Sullivan Show (television program), 238

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 291

Elizabeth I, Queen, 11

“The Elves and the Shoemaker” (Grimm), 167–69

England, 17, 26, 27, 36, 46, 49, 52, 53, 54–55

beginning of Christmas in, 9

Christmas customs in, 305–6

gift giving in, 61–62, 305

outlawing Christmas in, 12–13

return of Christmas to, 13–14

Entertaining, 337–41, 345

Epiphany, 8, 9, 36–37, 60, 302, 305, 314, 315, 318

Epiphany Eve, 27, 304, 318

ER
(television program), 251

Ethiopia, 316 Europe

Christmas customs in, 302–13

dawn of Christmas in, 9–10

Evergreen chair swag, 352–53

Evergreens, 9, 41–42, 44, 352

Family
(television program), 242

Family activities, 334–35

Far East, 318–20

A Fat Albert Christmas (television program), 242

Father Christmas, 16, 21, 26, 27, 305, 306, 316, 317, 321

Father Frost, 27, 30, 311

Finland, 48, 311

“The First Noël” (carol), 208

Flanders (Belgium), 303

The Flip Wilson Show
(television program), 239

The Flying Nun
(television program), 239

Food/feasts, 16, 44–45, 326–27, 329, 330

Food poisoning, avoiding, 345 France, 26, 27, 52, 54, 302–3

Francis of Assisi, St., 39, 304

Friends
(television program), 249

Frost, Robert, 187, 189

Frosty the Snowman
(television program), 248

Fruit, drying and sugaring, 352

The Garfield Christmas Special (television program), 245

Garlands, homemade, 355

Germany, 14–15, 18, 26, 27, 28, 34, 39, 47, 48

Christmas customs in, 307–8

dawn of Christmas in, 10

Ghana, 316

Gift giving, 25, 27, 35–36, 59–71, 303, 304, 305, 306, 311, 314, 315, 316, 318, 319, 321

commercialism and, 62

by era, 62–68

on Hanukkah, 327

history of, 60

ideas, 68–71

introduction of custom, 16

reducing stress over, 342

during Saturnalia, 7–8

Secret Santa, 339–40

by social position, 10, 60

“The Gift of the Magi” (Henry), 170–74

Gift wrap, 354, 355

The GI’s Christmas Eve Special (television program), 238

Glass-ball ornaments, 354–55

“God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen” (carol), 209–10

Gomer Pyle
(television program), 238

“Good King Wenceslas” (carol), 211

Goodman, Ellen, 295

The Gospel According to St. Luke, 2–3, 37

The Gospel According to St. Matthew, 2, 4–5, 37, 38

Gray, Harold, 287

Great Depression, 63, 286

“The Greatest Gift” (Stern), 234

Greece, 23, 311

Greenery, 41–42, 50–54

Gregorian calendar, 9

Gregory I, Pope, 9

Gregory of Nazainzus, 8

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, 167, 169

Gruber, Franz Xavier, 225, 308

Guests, 336–37

Gunsmoke
(television program), 240

Haakan, King, 49

Hakon the Good, King, 10

Hallelujah
(television program), 247

Handel, George Frederick, 231

Hanukkah, 324–27

The Happy Elf
(television program), 251

Hardy, Thomas, 190

“Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” (carol), 212

Hazel
(television program), 237

Heart of Christmas
(television program), 238

Henry, O., 170, 174

Henry III, King, 10, 11, 60

Henry VIII, King, 11, 40

High Hopes: The Capra Years
(television program), 243

Hill, Richard, 11 Hinduism, 329

A History of New York (Irving), 18

Holboell, Einar, 55

Holiday, Christmas as, 8, 14, 57

Holiday in Your Heart (television

program), 248 Holland, 17–18, 26, 27–28, 30, 309

Holly, 42, 44, 53, 344

“The Holly and the Ivy” (carol), 213

“The Holly and the Ivy” (poem), 184

Holy Year Jubilee
(television program), 240

The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (television program), 241