HOLIDAY LEGACY: If family traditions were a burden, Trish McLain would be squashed flat this season. View full sizePhotos by Rusty Costanza / The Times-PicayuneTrish McLain's trove of vintage ...

Some of the prettiest trees in Christmas shops this season are labeled Victorian. Decorated with lacy, beribboned confections in pastel colors, they are lovely to look at and reminiscent of holidays ...

NACOGDOCHES, TX (KTRE) - Victorian ornaments reflect quickly a Christmas past. We can't go back in time, but a visit to the Cole Art Center in downtown Nacogdoches this holiday season will be the next ...

If you like an old-fashioned Christmas, you can enjoy the decor and atmosphere of one even older than, well, the 20th century. Eckley Miners Village Associates have recreated a Victorian Christmas in ...

Paper cones filled with candy, wax candles hung on the tree and celery displayed in a vase may not seem like typical Christmas decorations, but in the late 1800s these items were holiday staples.

Many of the Christmas traditions we enjoy today in America come from the period of Queen Victoria’s reign in the United Kingdom, known as the Victorian era. Overland Trail Museum Curator Kay Rich ...

A Riverside house is decked out for Christmas from top to bottom — without twinkling electrical lights. Welcome to Heritage House, which is giving tours this holiday season of its authentic ...

PLACENTIA — “People walk in and say, ‘Wow! Wow! Wow!'” Betty Martin says. Wow is right. Betty, who lives on Athens Avenue, decorates her house in French Victorian style to a level of ornateness that ...

THE SHOPPERS AND THE SHOPKEEPERS. OLD RISING OF THE SUN. THE HISTORIC STREETS OF NEVADA CITY COME ALIVE WITH THE TRADITIONS OF THE VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS. YEAH, I ALWAYS FEEL VERY NOSTALGIC, WHICH IS ONE ...