The remnants of these overshadowed pagan traditions remain in our Christmas celebrations, for instance, and according to the free dictionary, the Scandinavian Winter Solstice festival of the Feast ...

Alongside the miracle of light from Hanukkah, I grew up celebrating Shab-e Yalda, the ancient Persian winter solstice tradition ... a reclamation of two traditions, thousands of years old.

In 1994, Congress decreed February as National Bird Feeding Month. Bird feeding is the activity of feeding wild birds other than from natural sources. “To feed or not or not to feed” supplemental bird ...

Winter might be seen as a cold period marked by dark days. But there's still a lot of interesting things going on between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. Leader Publishing Company of Salem ...

She said that as the winter solstice event has been going on for so long, it’s become something of its own tradition, with different traditions being picked over the years. “Because this is a ...

Makar Sankranti marks the Uttarayan—warmer months are close, and we are moving away from winter. What is Uttarayan? What do ...