BOSTON – Hours of sunlight decrease and temperatures drop as Americans once again reopen the now-yearly debate over what to call this time of year – the Christmas season? The holiday season? December?
Yet few Americans know that this debate, in various forms, arises almost as regularly as the season and dates back to the 17th century and the Pilgrims. Christmas was for a generation in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and for centuries people in Massachusetts went to school and work as usual on most Christmas days.
