Myths, Oddities & Ironies

Christmas Myths & Other Trivia I hate to burst your bubble but here are several common misconceptions about Christmas beliefs/traditions: The song ‘Over The River And Through The Wood’ is NOT a Christmas song. The original title of the 1844 poem by Lydia Maria Child is “The New-England Boy’s Song about Thanksgiving Day” and the […]

  It was on October 28    two hundred forty-six years ago today…. A Hessian soldier, fighting during the Battle of White Planes, was decapitated when a cannonball shattered his head. No surprise that the remains of his head could not be retrieved when his comrades came to carry his body off the battlefield. The Hessian