An old-fashioned tradition from England, Christmas crackers are the ultimate interactive treat. Wrapped in colorful paper, the crackers double as a table decoration if you place them on plates at ...

Susan Harrison Wolffis With any luck, I’ll be writing out Christmas cards this weekend.It’s one of my favorite traditions, one that feels oddly reminiscent of simpler, bygone times ...

Even in the Digital Age, old-fashioned Christmas cards still mean something to most people, requiring only an envelope, a stamp and a kind thought. ...

Shreveport's Ogilvie-Wiener Mansion, better known for its appearance on True Blood, is decorated for Christmas, and open for visitors this weekend. News Today's news ...

My father recently showed me some telegrams my grandfather had sent my grandmother in 1943 when he was a Marine fighting abroad in World War II. It made me think about how much tougher it was for ...

For scenes straight out of a box of old-fashioned Christmas cards, head to England. Many classic Christmas trappings, from caroling to mince pie and wassail, have been part of English tradition ...

A new survey out of Ireland shows 68 percent of people still want to get a handwritten Christmas card from family and friends.

Christmas these days might be all about the latest computer games, fibre-optic trees and fighting over the remote control, but that doesn’t stop us harking back to the time when it was a ...

WHILE writing Christmas cards can be a chore for some MELANIE says she love the chance to say hello to names from the past and to send a message to those she doesn't get to see very often.

Don’t let the title of Hallmark Channel’s “An Old-Fashioned Christmas” fool you. Sure, it’s set in the 1860s, when news traveled by letter and gentility was cherished. But at the heart ...