Monthly Archives: February 2015
HISTORIC ORNAMENTS: SNOW GLOBES
The first snow globe I had as a child contained a model of Windsor Castle that I happily subjected to snowstorms whenever the mood struck me. Also known as snow domes and water globes, these child-pleasing ornaments first put in an appearance in France sometime in the nineteenth-century France and were definitely a hot souvenir […]
HISTORIC CELEBRATION: CANDLEMAS
Candlemas is the last holiday of the Christmas season. Candlemas is a Christian celebration, or festival, of the Feast of Purification of the Virgin Mary. It also celebrates the annual blessing of candles used by the church. According to Jewish customs, women were considered “unclean” after the birth of a child. The unclean period lasted […]
Time Travelling With Kids 