num_pages: 355
description: The holidays that we celebrate are relatively unchanged from their origins in faraway lands. This book is a tribute to the diversity of imagination surrounding some of America s most honored &amp; sometimes offbeat cultural traditions. Beginning on New Year s Day &amp; following the calendar year, it presents a montage of newspaper accounts, oral histories, &amp; journal entries traditions, beliefs, legends, charms, riddles, gifts, superstitions, proverbs, recipes, poems, parades, songs, dances, games, contests &amp; plays. Hundreds of observances are associated with the more than 60 weird &amp; wonderful holidays!
language: English
title: America Celebrates!: A Patchwork of Weird and Wonderful Holiday Lore
titlecomplete: America Celebrates!: A Patchwork of Weird and Wonderful Holiday Lore
publisher: Visible Ink Press/Gale