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This was the family tree in 1980. It stood 14 feet tall and used 12 dozen balls and every ornament we could find or make. It cost 15 dollars at a nursery that was going out of business. Every tree on the lot was the same price. We trudged uphill over ten acres, dragging our tree that was covered in vines and other evidence of the passing years among the wilds. All the hard work, however, was worth the memories we have of
"OUR BIG TREE".
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THE CHRISTMAS TREE
The PINE TREE is said to be FIRST USED as a Christmas tree around the MIDDLE OF THE 16TH CENTURY ... in the South-Western part of Germany. People believed in wood spirits and the evergreen tree was said to be the "Tree of Life". People would bring an evergreen tree into their homes to provide the good wood ghosts a place to spend the frosty Winter and that also meant that the bad demons were outside. The FIRST DECORATED CHRISTMAS TREE documentations are around Alsace and the Black Forrest of Germany. The glassblowers of Thuringia discovered how to blow balls and bells in 1880, and those items soon became a widly used Christmas tree decoration. TINSEL is said to have started when a widow, who had a large family, decided to decorate a tree with what she could, in spite of her lack of funds. She wanted her children to have a happy time. So she secretly prepared a Christmas tree on the eve of Christmas, hoping to surprise her children. Spiders descended on the tree during the night and spun webs among all the branches. When the Christ Child saw the tree, he knew he had to spare this very good and giving mother the pain of her ruined tree. So he changed the spider webs into shining silver threads. What started out as a tradition steeped in
A CELEBRATION TO HONOR THE CHRIST CHILD.
THE HISTORY CHANNEL'S Information on the Christmas Tree.
Merry Christmas...
And a Happy New Year !!!
Wonder
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This was the family tree in 1980. It stood 14 feet tall and used 12 dozen balls and every ornament we could find or make. It cost 15 dollars at a nursery that was going out of business. Every tree on the lot was the same price. We trudged uphill over ten acres, dragging our tree that was covered in vines and other evidence of the passing years among the wilds. All the hard work, however, was worth the memories we have of
"OUR BIG TREE".
View a very special Christmas Card
From my favorite Internet card site.
YOU can become a member of this card site and send me a card.
I LOVE to get a Jacquie Lawson Internet card. End of commercial. HA!
THE CHRISTMAS TREE
The PINE TREE is said to be FIRST USED as a Christmas tree around the MIDDLE OF THE 16TH CENTURY ... in the South-Western part of Germany. People believed in wood spirits and the evergreen tree was said to be the "Tree of Life". People would bring an evergreen tree into their homes to provide the good wood ghosts a place to spend the frosty Winter and that also meant that the bad demons were outside. The FIRST DECORATED CHRISTMAS TREE documentations are around Alsace and the Black Forrest of Germany. The glassblowers of Thuringia discovered how to blow balls and bells in 1880, and those items soon became a widly used Christmas tree decoration. TINSEL is said to have started when a widow, who had a large family, decided to decorate a tree with what she could, in spite of her lack of funds. She wanted her children to have a happy time. So she secretly prepared a Christmas tree on the eve of Christmas, hoping to surprise her children. Spiders descended on the tree during the night and spun webs among all the branches. When the Christ Child saw the tree, he knew he had to spare this very good and giving mother the pain of her ruined tree. So he changed the spider webs into shining silver threads. What started out as a tradition steeped in superstition, became
A CELEBRATION TO HONOR THE CHRIST CHILD.
THE HISTORY CHANNEL'S Information on the Christmas Tree.
Merry Christmas...
And a Happy New Year !!!
Wonder
Another Holiday Page
View a very special Christmas Card
From my favorite Internet card site.
YOU can become a member of this card site and send me a card.
I LOVE to get a Jacquie Lawson Internet card. End of commercial. HA!
The PINE TREE is said to be FIRST USED as a Christmas tree around the MIDDLE OF THE 16TH CENTURY ... in the South-Western part of Germany. People believed in wood spirits and the evergreen tree was said to be the "Tree of Life". People would bring an evergreen tree into their homes to provide the good wood ghosts a place to spend the frosty Winter and that also meant that the bad demons were outside. The FIRST DECORATED CHRISTMAS TREE documentations are around Alsace and the Black Forrest of Germany. The glassblowers of Thuringia discovered how to blow balls and bells in 1880, and those items soon became a widly used Christmas tree decoration. TINSEL is said to have started when a widow, who had a large family, decided to decorate a tree with what she could, in spite of her lack of funds. She wanted her children to have a happy time. So she secretly prepared a Christmas tree on the eve of Christmas, hoping to surprise her children. Spiders descended on the tree during the night and spun webs among all the branches. When the Christ Child saw the tree, he knew he had to spare this very good and giving mother the pain of her ruined tree. So he changed the spider webs into shining silver threads. What started out as a tradition steeped in
THE HISTORY CHANNEL'S Information on the Christmas Tree.
Merry Christmas...
And a Happy New Year !!!
Wonder