Christmas is a grand time to visit the restored colonial capital of Virginia, where the celebration transcends mere nostalgia and reaches more than 200 years into history.

In addition to individual Christmas tunes, classical composers were writing cantatas and small symphonies having to do with the Nativity, Colonial Williamsburg’s Miller explained.

Christmas trees were unheard of during Colonial times, and gift-giving was not prevalent among these early Virginians. Children and servants were occasionally given small presents.

There are no pictorial references to Christmas decorations in colonial America, Powers explained, but English prints of the time show “single sprigs of holly in individual panes of windows.

St. Nicolas greeted children at the Colonial Plantation’s Christmas on the Farm event last Saturday. Here, he greets Kim Garrison of Aston at the entrance to the farmhouse’s formal parl… ...

In Colonial America, during nearly all of the 17th century and most of the 18th, it was actually against the law to celebrate on or near Christmas day as result of the Puritan thought of the time and ...

A traditional 18th-century Grand Illumination celebration on Dec. 8 will begin the Christmas holiday season with a bang at Colonial Williamsburg, the nation’s largest living history museum, i… ...

This is Christmas in Colonial Williamsburg. Today, the one-time capital of Virginia — about a nine-hour drive from Buffalo -— is the nation’s largest living-history museum, where actors in ...

The following is Part I of a series examining colonial Christmas traditions in New England and produced by the Needham History Center & Museum : 'Tis the season of good cheer! Even as adults, we ...

Dec. 25, 1659: Puritan settlers eschew Christmas celebrations, which are illegal in the colonies from 1659 to 1681 ...