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The Christmas Tree - Bringing In The Green
The Christmas tree tradition is generally attributed to Norse legends and German practices.  The German tradition is said to begin with Martin Luther who saw a group of snowy fir trees and was so impressed with the gentle quiet of the sight that he decorated a small tree in his house for his family.
Prior to the early 1800s, Christmas in this country was not celebrated the way it is now.  It was a drunken, sloppy, loud celebration and not conducive to anything religious or family.
Then two things happened - a lady's magazine article and a poem.
The traditional, annual tree began as ladies in the United States, enthralled with everything Queen Victoria did, began keeping up with the British Royal Family. 
Queen Victoria married her cousin, the German Prince Albert, in 1841.  She wore a white dress, which practice caught on in this country following publication of that announcement.
As a child Victoria remembered a Christmas tree being placed in every room.  By the mid 1840s the German tradition had caught on everywhere in Europe.  They called it "bringing in the green."  The tree she wanted placed in the dining room after her marriage to Prince Albert impressed even ... more

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