Original Christmas play, stories, and poems which reflect the holiday celebration of particular historical periods, or ethnic or cultural groups, such as a 1640 Puritan Christmas, a sharecropper Christmas, a Bayou-French Christmas and others.
A fictional retelling of the experiences of twelve-year-old Mary Jemison, who after being captured by a Shawnee war party during the French and Indian War, is rescued and subsequently adopted by two Seneca sisters with whom she ultimately chooses to stay.