Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, is observed this year from December 25th through January 2nd. The celebration commemorates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem during the Maccabean Revolt, in 164 B.C. Simon Maccabeus [...]
Do you have a date tonight? Did you receive flowers or chocolates from your Valentine? Heart-shaped treats haven’t always been used to celebrate this day in mid-February. The early pagan festival of Lupercalia, celebrated on the Ides [...]
Rutledge Thomas Blasengame Parham resided only briefly in Troup County, but he is a key figure in one of our most enduring legends. We think he arrived here in late summer of 1864, as a patient in [...]
Students at the old Unity School meet with Santa around a Christmas Tree, 1949. Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert celebrate around a Christmas tree in 1848. Images like this prompted a craze [...]
Texas Juneteenth Day Celebration, 1900. Credit: Austin History Center Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) is the official name of the holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. Observed annually on June 19, [...]
Vintage Christmas Greeting Card 1922 Christmas 1921 The front page of the LaGrange Graphic, December 15, 1921, was devoted entirely to children’s letters to Santa. At the time, these were simple requests from children, however, [...]
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