Arts & Culture

As a child, Jeanette Owen always looked forward to a weeklong gathering among family from Christmas until New Year's Day. When torrential rains threatened the get-together, her grandfather's ingenuity saved the season.

A woman, obviously sad, stopped to speak to the mall Santa. What could he say to help her?

Her father decided he wouldn't have a Christmas tree that year but handed over some ornaments and told his daughter to put them on her tree instead.

The preparations began after Thanksgiving, and some of the first signs of the holiday were the decorations at Cayce-Yost Department Store.

The scene at Bethlehem's annual Christmas tree ceremony depicts a world full of clamor and constant political tension.

The highlight of Christmas Day was visiting the grandparents.

An unexpected visitor, plus a big snow, create a special holiday for the teen from Mexico staying with a large American family.

It wasn't the Hallmark scene she had experienced a year earlier. But then, in the most unlikely place, she remembered the light of Christmas.