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Members of the Holy Name Choir sing Christmas carols at the gazebo in Kimball Park during the light-up ceremony Friday night at Ebensburg’s 19th annual Dickens of a Christmas celebration.

The Queen took a shine to a diamond ring worn by Charles Dickens during his lifetime and quipped “I won’t nick it” after ...

Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol to raise awareness of some of the problems in Victorian society. He thought that many of these problems could be solved if people were kinder to each other.

The Christmas of our imagination — and, indeed, our dreams — is resolutely white. Yet why is this, when so rarely does the big day bring a blanket of snow? At first glance, it seems logical to credit ...