The special holiday event begins at 3:30 p.m., with last admission at 6 p.m. Visitors will enter through the secondary entrance off Straits Avenue, where lanterns will guide them to the palisaded ...

In 18th century Colonial Williamsburg, there were no strings of Christmas lights. Holiday decorations were made out of sugary pastries and marzipan arranged on banquet tables of the wealthy. During a ...

WILLIAMSBURG — In colonial times, Santa figurines, Christmas trees, tinsel strands and poinsettia plants played no part in holiday decorations. So, as members of Green Spring Garden Club plan their ...

There were no video games or cellphones to unwrap, no electric stoves or microwave ovens to cook a festive feast. But there was dancing along with red bows and plenty of garland. There were paper ...

“Now Christmas comes, ‘tis fit that we,Should feast and sing and merry be.Keep open house, let fiddlers playA fig for cold, sing care away.”— Virginia Almanac, 1765 It was the holiday season in the ...

WILLIAMSBURG — The St. George Tucker House, an 18th century home in the heart of the city’s historic area, may be the site of where an endearing holiday tradition began. Its namesake was a ...

MACKINAW CITY, Mich. -- Hot cocoa, coriander cookies, and crackling fires in cozy stone hearths are a few of the delights in store during this year’s A Colonial Christmas event at Fort Michilimackinac ...

For the better part of the year, Garnett and Grace Gill’s Shepherdsville home looks like an average abode. But once the holidays approach, they begin filling every corner of their 2,800-square-foot ...

It was the holiday season in the colony of Virginia in 1774. At his house in Williamsburg, Peyton Randolph and his wife, Elizabeth, gathered with their household and friends, including his cousin ...