Michelle Prichard and her significant other, Matt Danner, have a strong German heritage in both of their families. With this ...

It was all good stories, good food and good beer at the annual Winterfest at the Lindenhof in Peoria on Sunday. Harmonie ...

For most theme parks, Christmas is a distant memory. However, one park's Christmas celebration only finished at the end of ...

The President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, delivered a message in favor of tolerance and coexistence on Thursday, ...

The Denver Christkindlmarket will move to a new location in the Mile High City. Plans are underway for a second German-style ...

A survey of 2,000 people from Talker Research found 45% of Americans feel keeping the festive momentum up long into the new ...

Mentally, you may still be feeding off the festive high, refusing to let your Christmas flame burn out ... to start thinking about taking down the decorations and kicking your fir to the curb ...

when should you put away your Christmas decorations and holiday wear? This seemingly innocuous question is not as simple as it seems. That is, if you want to follow certain traditions or even ...

it is still seen as the point when many people take down their Christmas decorations for the year to avoid bad luck. It all comes from a medieval notion that decorations left up after a certain point ...

An elephant grazes on Christmas tree during the feeding of animals with unused Christmas trees at the Zoo, in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Jan. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) An elephant feasts on ...

The decorations, which were traditionally put up on Christmas Eve, used to stay out until February 2 (the end of Candlemas). This used to be the official end of Christmas in Medieval England.

Evergreens like fir, holly, ivy, and mistletoe that thrived in winter despite the darkness and the cold were favourite decorations for the Christmas season. Illustration by Birket Foster for the ...