I am thinking some members of the boomer generation are getting a little worn out with the gift-giving, card-writing, house and tree decorating, two months of Christmas songs and television ...

Something of an odd item in the Los Angeles Times. It ranges from the forecast of snow on Christmas day in Little Rock to the 1957 school crisis and Elizabeth Eckford’s torment on her lonely walk to ...

The 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' 1957 book has been made into three different films The holidays mean green Christmas trees and the green "mean one" — the Grinch. Every December, the Grinch movies ...

Bray Cualann Historical Society’s James Scannell looks back at what happened in Bray and surroundings during the 1957 festive period A train driver from Bray was killed in a crash before Christmas in ...

MARTINSVILLE – “To me the song catches you as soon as that guitar lick comes in. I don’t think anybody doesn’t recognize that.” The riff Rob Helms refers to was laid down just before Christmas 1957 ...

00:01, Mon, Dec 18, 2017 Updated: 10:17, Mon, Dec 18, 2017 Independent television, which had started in 1955, was hitting its stride, in August 1957, STV (Scottish TV) became the first regional ITV ...

Rationing was finally at an end and there was a mood of optimism in the air as the people of Lancashire put the finishing touches to their Christmas preparations 60 years ago. Local historian Keith ...

A rare 1957 Christmas Day broadcast of Miles Davis, reportedly the earliest surviving televised images of the jazz great, has been unearthed in France, ahead of Friday’s release of a posthumous record ...

Great Christmas songs, and great versions of great Christmas songs, are as plentiful as letters to Santa Claus. It’s the holiday for which various-artists compilations were seemingly created (and why ...