The Red Kettle campaign, first started in San Francisco in 1891, has traditionally been The Salvation Army’s most prominent fund-raiser. In 2004, the Salvation Army raised over $100 million in communities nationwide, with the spare change all being put to good use in the towns where the money was deposited into the kettles.
The funds [...]

I recently did a radio interview with a station based out of Arkansas and we were discussing the differences between doing your Christmas shopping at the local mall versus shopping online. I made the point that many consumers still like to go the mall to get some of that Holiday vibe and the sense [...]

Food is as big — maybe even bigger — an element of the holiday season as music, decorating and Santa Claus. Everyone has their favorite Christmas foods. The great thing about traditional foods is that one can always put a fresh spin on things through unique recipes. And that’s where this site of [...]

Christmas is hands-on and we found a site — Kaboose.com’s Christmas Crafts — that will show you just how hands-on it can be. It is another winner of our Site of the Week honors.
Technically, Kaboose.com isn’t a Christmas site. It is a family/Mom portal featuring a plethora of parenting, schooling and family material.
But [...]

We’re pleased to announce Hymns and Carols of Christmas as winner of our Site of the Week honors.
Like all great Christmas sites, Hymns and Carols of Christmas began as a real-life, offline endeavor built upon the love of the season. Way back in 1996 Douglas Anderson was performing guitar as part of a bluegrass [...]

The Victorian era was a golden age in the history of Christmas. And nothing is more Victorian than the Christmas tree. That is the subject of this article found at Victoriana.com.
There’s something phony about Christmas trees these days. I’m not talking about artificial trees because even folks living in lands absent of pine trees [...]

You only need to look as far as this summer’s movies to figure out what could be hot in toys for Christmas:
Woolworths has tipped Dr Who, Spiderman and Transformers to top the Christmas sales charts.
Announcing its top ten forecast, the chain predicts that the hit 80’s robots, Transformers, will be among the big sellers [...]

By Jeff Westover
Christmas of 1826 was snowy, cold and lonely for the cadets of West Point. Though called “men” they were really teenage boys — some as young as 17 — and they wanted to celebrate Christmas. Young Jefferson Davis, future president of the Confederate States of America, was amongst them.
But West Point then, as [...]