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SUMMARY:America 250 Book Club: The Battle for Christmas
LOCATION:Wilkinson Public Library\, 100 W Pacific Ave\, Telluride
DESCRIPTION:Time: 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM\n\nJoins us for the last in the Americ
 a 250/Colorado 150 Book Club series: The Battle for Christmas: A Cultural
  History of America's Most Cherished Holiday by Stephen Nissenbaum. The d
 iscussion will be led by Telluride Historical Museum's Executive Diretor\
 , Kiernan Landon. You can check out a copy from the libray or purcashe a 
 copy at 10% off from Between the Covers Bookstore.\n\nPULITZER PRIZE FINA
 LIST Drawing on a wealth of research\, this ”fascinating” book (The New Y
 ork Times Book Review) charts the invention of our current Yuletide tradi
 tions\, from St. Nicholas to the Christmas tree and\, perhaps most radica
 lly\, the practice of giving gifts to children.\n\nAnyone who laments the
  excesses of Christmas might consider the Puritans of colonial Massachuse
 tts: they simply outlawed the holiday. The Puritans had their reasons\, s
 ince Christmas was once an occasion for drunkenness and riot\, when poor 
 “wassailers extorted food and drink from the well-to-do. In this intrigui
 ng and innovative work of social history\, Stephen Nissenbaum rediscovers
  Christmas’s carnival origins and shows how it was transformed\, during t
 he nineteenth century\, into a festival of domesticity and consumerism.\n
 \nBursting with detail\, filled with subversive readings of such seasonal
  classics as “A Visit from St. Nicholas” and A Christmas Carol\, The Batt
 le for Christmas captures the glorious strangeness of the past even as it
  helps us better understand our present.\n\nMore info: https://telluridel
 ibrary.libcal.com/event/17606825
URL:https://telluride.gadzooklabs.com/e/wplLibCal-19928-17606825
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