Early American Christmas and the Puritans

Alice Morse Earle, writing more than 100 years ago about Christmas in early New England, said "Of the first Pilgrim Christmas we know but little, save that it was spent, as was many a later one, in work." Read more about colonial Christmases: Early American Christmas and the Puritans

_{Image: Puritan Winter from Alice Morse Earle, "Customs and Fashions in Old New England," 1903, © 2000 www.arttoday.com}