The Man Who Invented Christmas

Name: The Man Who Invented Christmas
Start: 2024-12-05T18:30:00-06:00
End: 2024-12-05T20:00:00-06:00
Location: 401 5th St, Hudson, IA, United States, Iowa 50643

Schedule

Thu Dec 05 2024 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

401 5th St, Hudson, IA, United States, Iowa 50643 | Hudson, IA

Would you believe Christmas used to be a very low-key affair? Until the mid-19th century, people did little to mark it and businesses didn’t consider it a holiday. Yet by 1900 it was our largest and most popular annual celebration. What changed society’s view of Christmas? The answer may be Charles Dickens and "A Christmas Carol".
Historian Kathy Wilson investigates how a novel about social reform transformed Christmas from a date on the church calendar into the holiday we know today.