The famous words "'Twas the night before Christmas" shaped the holiday by popularizing stockings, reindeer, and even Santa Claus. But the classic poem also sparked a centuries-long controversy. Now, ...

The calendar might still say September but it's definitely beginning to look a lot like Christmas in a certain corner of Northumberland. And it's all down to a well known garden centre opening the ...

One bustling market town in the North East will truly come alive this December. Known as the gateway to the Durham Dales, Bishop Auckland is stunning at any time of year, but especially so when the ...

If you love nothing more than planning ahead when it comes to your Christmas decorations, you will most definitely want to pay a visit to Blaydon in the next few weeks. And that's because a successful ...

Gary Oldman, who stars as grumpy yet gifted spy boss Jackson Lamb in Apple TV+ hit “Slow Horses,” has been recruited by the real MI5 – to narrate a Christmas poem. In collaboration with the streaming ...

Every Christmas, I gather near with my family, I hold so dear. On this day, we go on an outing, dine, and play, and make memories along the way. A few days before, at school, we cheer and learn why ...

Editor’s Note: Clement Clarke Moore (1779 – 1863) wrote the poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” also known as “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” in 1822. It is believed that a family friend sent a copy ...

FARGO — For more than 200 years, people have been enjoying the melodic rhyming and nostalgic memories associated with Clement C. Moore's poem "Twas the Night Before Christmas." For almost half of that ...

Celebrate Christmas 2024 with kids by exploring simple Santa Claus and Christmas tree drawing ideas, along with fun poems and songs to inspire creativity. Christmas 2024 brings joy and creativity for ...

A new tradition and my Christmas gift to you, a poem I wrote for a year in review. Ring, ring, ring-a-ling. We’ve got some rhymes to sling. The prose can wait. All fun, no hate. Let’s try our first ...

The popular poem, actually titled “A Visit From St. Nicholas,” first appeared in The Times’s pages in 1896. By Tina Jordan “In thousands of homes and by hundreds of thousands of children these words ...

Reading “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” has become a ritual for millions. Who actually wrote the poem, however, is the question. The beloved poem was first published on Dec. 23, 1823, as an ...