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How did the Christmas Tree Trimming Tradition Come to be? December 19, 1843….. That's the day Charles Dicken's short story "A Christmas Carol" was published. According to historian Ronald Hutton: Dickens sought to construct Christmas as a family-centered festival of generosity, in contrast to the community-based and church-centered observations, the observance of which had dwindled during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The holiday, remade as a family-centered rather than community-centered festival, carried its own set of contradictions: the practice of gift-giving created the possibility of commercialization, and the shift from community to familial focus further eroded the traditions...
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