For the better part of the year, Garnett and Grace Gill’s Shepherdsville home looks like an average abode. But once the holidays approach, they begin filling every corner of their 2,800-square-foot ...

The special holiday event begins at 3:30 p.m., with last admission at 6 p.m. Visitors will enter through the secondary entrance off Straits Avenue, where lanterns will guide them to the palisaded ...

There were no video games or cellphones to unwrap, no electric stoves or microwave ovens to cook a festive feast. But there was dancing along with red bows and plenty of garland. There were paper ...

WILLIAMSBURG — A hundred years ago, the man who many would call the “Father of Colonial Williamsburg” arrived in town. It wasn’t John D. Rockefeller Jr., the wealthy New York financier who famously ...

Hundreds of people came out to Smallwood State Park in Marbury on Saturday for the annual Colonial Christmas event, a celebration of local history and the holidays. Visitors enjoyed a number of ...

Grand illumination The holidays in Colonial Williamsburg kick off with the “Grand Illumination and Fireworks” on the evening of Dec. 6. Seven-foot iron cresset torches, bonfires, lanterns and candles ...

MACKINAW CITY, Mich. -- Hot cocoa, coriander cookies, and crackling fires in cozy stone hearths are a few of the delights in store during this year’s A Colonial Christmas event at Fort Michilimackinac ...

Housed on the corner of 10th Street and Main, a beautiful Dutch Colonial revival stands as a bridge between the past and present. The light blue paint job decorated with stenciled garland beneath the ...

WILLIAMSBURG -- Martha Marquardt carefully examined a magnolia leaf. "That's blemished. I wouldn't use it," she said, tossing it into a garbage can. Leaves that do pass inspection are tucked into a ...