Lisa

What is your favorite holiday? Why? Tell something about the customs, traditions and/or food that you especially enjoy which are associated with this holiday and what their origins are. Using the internet, find a link that provides information about either the holiday itself or an interesting aspect of it. Also, you will need to find an image to include with your text.

My favorite holiday is Christmas. I like the many weeks of preparation that it takes to be ready for the big day. Shortly after Thanksgiving I begin my Christmas preparations by cleaning my entire house one room at a time. I even wash every dish and glass in the dining room china cabinet and change the dishes and glassware to Christmas! I like to listen to all types of Christmas music while I prepare. One of my favorite songs is O Holy Night. In the [|carol], the singer recalls the birth of [|Jesus]. It was translated into English by [|Unitarian] minister [|John Sullivan Dwight], editor of //Dwight's Journal of Music// in 1855, and lyrics also exist in other languages. On [|24 December] [|1906], [|Reginald Fessenden], a Canadian inventor, broadcast the first [|AM] radio program, which included him playing "O Holy Night" on the [|violin]. The carol therefore appears to have been the first piece of music to be broadcast on [|radio]. It later appeared in an edition of carols by Josiah Armes, published by [|Oxford] in 1936, subsequently increasing its popularity. Popular versions on records (or CDs) include Enrico Caruso's 1912 recording, Julius LaRosa's version from 1953, Josh Groban's 2002 recording, and hundreds of LP non-single recordings. The hailed most beautiful version is from the Asia's Songbird, [|Regine Velasquez].

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It is fun to celebrate with family and friends!