While gingerbread had been around since ancient Greece, Queen Elizabeth I was the first to decorate ginger cookies, having them sometimes turned into caricatures of people visiting the royal court in ...

Greece, N.Y. — Our Bright Spot shines on a Christmas tradition for one Greece family dating back more than a century. “Our father always said, your family is the most important thing in your life and ...

Christmas is one of the most globally celebrated holidays in the world. But not everybody celebrates the same way—or even on the same day. While Christmas is, at its core, a Christian holiday ...

As a kid, I spent all my summer and winter holidays in my parents’ hometown of Methana, a small Greek peninsula with an active volcano, beautiful beaches, and a wild, windswept sort of nature. It’s ...

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All traditions are human inventions that last briefly or, sometimes, forever. Some of those innovations are extremely useful, and last, others vanish, only to be replaced by better alternatives. We ...