While it looks like we won't be having a White Christmas in Boston this year, that doesn't mean we can't set the mood for the holiday season. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, one of our most famous "local" poets loved the outdoors. And here, we present a rendition of one of his more famous poems, "Snow-Flakes," performed by Allison Olivia Choat for the myStanza poetry channel.
Choat is an Associate Director and founding member of MoonBox Productions headquartered in Cambridge. Her most recent production, a revival of Neil Simon's classic comedy "Barefoot in the Park," just finished a successful run at the Boston Center for the Arts.
In European countries such as Germany, Christmas is celebrated with fervor even as Europeans debate how much to emphasize the holiday's religious significance. But the conflict is complex.
Much derives from a long-running debate over dividing church and state, said Alexander Görlach, the founder and editor-in-chief of "The European" magazine and a visiting scholar at Harvard University. He is researching the future of secularization.
