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An Old-Time Christmas
Small American flags and candles in tin holders
decorate a tree in the Henry Ford birthplace. The
flag idea came from a picture in an 1866 magazine.
Ford, the car builder, remembered a tree decorated
just this way.
Children of today watch while a craftsman shows
how wooden toys were made many years ago.
Craftsmen also demonstrate how to make wreaths,
dolls, quilts, cookies and brooms.
A suckling pig on the dining room table is featured
in this well-to-do Maryland plantation home of the
1650s. (A suckling pig is a baby that was still
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Sleigh rides give holiday visitors a glimpse of winters past.
Dearborn, Michigan ?
Greenfield Village is an
unusual place.
It is a site that contains
nearly 100 historic
buildings.
Old stores, offices,
businesses and factories
have been moved here
from many parts of the
country.
Some of the buildings
are homes. Some of the
homes once belonged to
famous Americans.
Each year at
Christmastime, 40 of
these buildings are
decorated the way they
were in years past.
Thousands of visitors
flock to see the joys of an
old-time Christmas.
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Strings of popcorn and candles
decorate this t'arly tree1 in
the Wright brothers' home. This
year marks the 75th anniversary
of the Wright brothers' first
(light at Kitty Hawk. NX'., on
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A kissing bell made with laurel, mistletoe,
apples and candles hangs from the ceiling
in an 1840s* house. The story is that
young couples would make a game of
trying to bite the apples and while doing
it, c-xchange a kiss.