Since the settling of Jamestown, Virginia, more than 350 years ago, Christmas in America has been evolving. From Massachusetts to New Mexico, from Florida to Alasks, Americans celebrate the holiday each year with vim and vigor, and being an ingenious lot, continue to think up new variations on old themes, mingling religious convictions and folk customs into something distinctly American. Over 140 Colorful pictures and home spun text tells of America's earliest christmases, the mixing of various cultural tradition through the centuries, and christmas as it is observed today.
