Merry Happy Epiphany
Through a couple bursts of historic research - for dinner party themes, a potential theater production, and a novel, I discovered that the original American Christmas was celebrated on Epiphany. Or January 6 th . December 25 th only really became popular in the Victorian era. My first Epiphany Most of my life we have celebrated Epiphany, too. I was often as excited about the Sunday on which it was observed as I was about waking up on Christmas morning. When I was a toddler, my mother started hosting an open house and continued doing this until two years ago. 40 years is a pretty good run. It was special because it was a day when I got to see my cousins again, but also family friends that we didn’t see on the holiday – or as life would have it – any other time in the year. Friends included neighbors from whom we moved away, my dad’s high school English teacher, my mom’s work colleagues, my high school/college/theater frie...
