Christmas
Home for the holidays
As the holidays approach, residents are preparing to celebrate despite the threat of coronavirus — they’re decorating their homes with lights, buying holiday movies, and getting into the festive spirit.
Just on a smaller scale.
Modern Christmas was delivered by Victorians
Christmas wasn’t always the highly commercialized gift-giving festival it has come to be known as.
Highline history professor Rachael Bledsaw says it wasn’t until the holiday’s date was shifted by the Roman Catholic Church that it became associated with the traditions in practice today.