The Most Important Christmas Activity

During pioneer times, what was the most important Christmas activity?

a.      Visiting Santa

b.      Caroling

c.       Candy pulls

d.      The Christmas dance

Yesterday’s answer:

a.      The children going door to door stating, “Christmas gift”

The pioneers infrequently spoke of Christmas trees and Christmas caroling. Rather, they recalled putting up stockings, exchanging a simple gift, or eating an apple, a molasses cookie, or a plain-tasting cake. Many Christmas customs involved neighbors. A serenading fife-and-drum band might tour the neighborhood in an ox-drawn wagon. Or village children might pass from house to house chanting “Christmas gift, Christmas gift”—usually enough to win them a small reward.

Nearly Everything Imaginable, Walker, Ronald W., Doris R. Dant ed., (Provo, Utah: BYU Press, 1999), 62.

Merry Christmas to both my family and my Blog family!!!