BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20241208T200000Z DTEND:20241208T210000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:The Man Who Reinvented Christmas DESCRIPTION:Until the mid-19th Century\, people did little to celebrate Christmas and businesses didn't consider it a holiday. Yet by 1900 it was our largest & most popular annual celebration. What changed society's view of Christmas? The answer may be Charles Dickens and his book\, "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. Sponsored by Friends of the James Kennedy Public Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Until the mid-19th Century\, people did little to celebrate Christmas and businesses didn&rsquo\;t consider it a holiday. Yet by 1900 it was our largest &\; most popular annual celebration. What changed society&rsquo\;s view of Christmas? The answer may be Charles Dickens and his book\, "\;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. Sponsored by Friends of the James Kennedy Public Library. LOCATION:James Kennedy Public Library UID:e.2958.1532 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260525T221425Z URL:https://chamber.dyersville.org/events/details/the-man-who-reinvented-christmas-12-08-2024-1532 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR