Here’s a breakdown of the origin of the Christmas Tree and which culture is credited with the Christmas tree traditions we ...

A common image on Christmas greeting cards, in movies and storybooks, and holiday figurines is of an adult and a child pulling an evergreen tree on a sled through the snow. This image depicts the ...

A blue “Happy Hanukkah” ornament hangs on a Christmas tree. Traditionally, for Christian-Jewish families, the month of December is referred to as a “dilemma.” This time of year brings discussion about ...

God can be so cruel in his mockery of us. Who would have thought that divine laughter could sound like fungal growth? Or that a history of elms could reveal God’s disdain? Yet that appears to be one ...

Like the song says, it's time for mistletoe and holly. The holly tree has been a winter favorite throughout human history, ...

Much of what we think is new is old. It was in 1852 that Augustus T. Dowd, in search of a grizzly, stumbled across bigger game: a towering tree to be named a sequoia, after the famous Californian ...