Experience a Colonial Williamsburg Christmas While Christmas certainly wasn’t as commercialized in the late 18 th Century as it is now, the historic area does have a full schedule of events for ...

Those song lyrics introduced “Perry Como’s Early American Christmas” special taped 40 years ago at locations in Colonial Williamsburg’s historic area, early in November and broadcast ...

Small bonfires burned in the dark streets of Colonial Williamsburg, and people gathered around cressets, pole-held iron baskets filled with blazing pine. Candles glowed in the windows of ...

Several hundred people came out for Colonial Williamsburg’s Community Christmas Tree Lighting across the street from the Colonial Courthouse. The ceremony began at 5 p.m., but visitors began … ...

Williamsburg's Colonial Christmas. Natural Displays Aim To Evoke Old Traditions. December 7, 2000. By Associated Press. WILLIAMSBURG -- Martha Marquardt carefully examined a magnolia leaf.

The origins of what is referred to as the Williamsburg-style Christmas, with fruits, shells and magnolia, goes back not to the 18th century but to the 20th.

Experience an 18th-century Christmas in Colonial Williamsburg. Want to plan your own colonial Christmas next year? Erin Spencer, a senior at the College of William and Mary and one of Traveler‘s ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia - There are no bright blinking lights in Colonial Williamsburg, no giant Christmas trees, no Santa Claus interpreters scoping out town chimneys. And yet, there are numerous ...

Leave your plastic Santas at home. And lose the tangle of multicolored lights. When Colonial Williamsburg gets decked out for Christmas, it’s in full 18th Century regalia.

Everywhere you turn in Colonial Williamsburg, there’s another long-held tradition to be discovered. Many of them have been around for generations, passed down and nurtured through the families ...