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The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
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Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
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Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
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The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
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The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
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Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
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Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
*****************
Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
****************************************
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
*******************************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
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Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
*****************
Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
****************************************
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
*******************************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
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Hashtag metadata tag
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Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
*****************
Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
****************************************
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
*******************************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
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Hashtag metadata tag
#MerryChristmas #HappyChristmas #Christmas #ChristmasParty #ChristmasTown #CharlesDickens #Dickens #DickensFestival #CharlesDickensFestival #AChristmasCarol #EbenezerScrooge #Scrooge #LongIsland #NY #NewYork #PortJefferson #Victorian #Victorianera #Victorianfashion #UK #UnitedKingdom #British #English #England #GreatBritain #Britain #VictorianChristmas #VictorianFestival #ChristmasVillage #Festival #Holiday #winter #snow #theater #theatre #family #familyevent #ChristmasCarol #Ebenezer #book #books #literature #EnglishLiterature #Christmasevent #ChristmasEve #FancyDress #costume #costumes #art #fun #Yule #Jól #Yuletide #Yuletime #Yulefest #YuleTree #Mistletoe #Wintersolstice #Winter #midwinter #WinterFestival #Saturnalia #Befana #BefanaWitch #BefanaChristmasWitch #Santa #SantaClaus #PortJeff #PortTown
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Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
*****************
Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
****************************************
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
*******************************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
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Hashtag metadata tag
#MerryChristmas #HappyChristmas #Christmas #ChristmasParty #ChristmasTown #CharlesDickens #Dickens #DickensFestival #CharlesDickensFestival #AChristmasCarol #EbenezerScrooge #Scrooge #LongIsland #NY #NewYork #PortJefferson #Victorian #Victorianera #Victorianfashion #UK #UnitedKingdom #British #English #England #GreatBritain #Britain #VictorianChristmas #VictorianFestival #ChristmasVillage #Festival #Holiday #winter #snow #theater #theatre #family #familyevent #ChristmasCarol #Ebenezer #book #books #literature #EnglishLiterature #Christmasevent #ChristmasEve #FancyDress #costume #costumes #art #fun #Yule #Jól #Yuletide #Yuletime #Yulefest #YuleTree #Mistletoe #Wintersolstice #Winter #midwinter #WinterFestival #Saturnalia #Befana #BefanaWitch #BefanaChristmasWitch #Santa #SantaClaus #PortJeff #PortTown
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Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
*****************
Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
****************************************
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
*******************************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
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Hashtag metadata tag
#MerryChristmas #HappyChristmas #Christmas #ChristmasParty #ChristmasTown #CharlesDickens #Dickens #DickensFestival #CharlesDickensFestival #AChristmasCarol #EbenezerScrooge #Scrooge #LongIsland #NY #NewYork #PortJefferson #Victorian #Victorianera #Victorianfashion #UK #UnitedKingdom #British #English #England #GreatBritain #Britain #VictorianChristmas #VictorianFestival #ChristmasVillage #Festival #Holiday #winter #snow #theater #theatre #family #familyevent #ChristmasCarol #Ebenezer #book #books #literature #EnglishLiterature #Christmasevent #ChristmasEve #FancyDress #costume #costumes #art #fun #Yule #Jól #Yuletide #Yuletime #Yulefest #YuleTree #Mistletoe #Wintersolstice #Winter #midwinter #WinterFestival #Saturnalia #Befana #BefanaWitch #BefanaChristmasWitch #Santa #SantaClaus #PortJeff #PortTown
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Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
#RockefellerCenter 89th Annual #ChristmasTreeLighting #🎄 December 1st 2021
#RockCenterNYC @rockcenternyc
30 #RockefellerPlaza Midtown neighborhood Manhattan Island borough NYC 🌃 New York State 10111 zip code #USA country North America continent
#Winter ❄️ season
Wednesday December 1st 2021 from 7-9pm
#RockCenterXmas @RockCenterXmas
#ChristmasInRockefellerCenter broadcast live on #NBC4NY @nbcnewyork NASDAQ #CMCSA $CMCSA -
Live performances in 2020 included #DollyParton #KellyClarkson
Rockefeller Center has been designated a #NationalHistoricLandmark this site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the #UnitedStatesOfAmerica 1987 #NationalParkService @nationalparkservice United States #DepartmentOfTheInterior @usinterior -
The first #ChristmasTree a 20 foot Balsam Fir was brought by #ConstructionWorkers in 1931 -
The 2021 #tree is a 79 foot #NorwaySpruce donated by Devon and Julie Price, parishioners at Immaculate Conception Church in Elkton, Maryland
lit with 50,000 #LEDLights and topped with a #SwarovskiCrystal star ⭐️ containing 3 million Swarovski crystals designed by #DanielLibeskind @DanielLibeskind in 2018
The Christmas Tree 🌲 will be lit daily from 6am-12am. On Christmas Day, the Tree is lit for 24 hours and on New Year’s Eve it is lit from 6am to 9pm
The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree will be on display to the public until Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022.
#Epiphany #ThreeKingsDay Thursday January 6th 2022
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112
After Rockefeller Center the tree will be donated to #HabitatForHumanity @habitatforhumanity to help build a new home 🏡 -
@apple @iPhonePhotography Merry Christmas #🎅 #Yule photos by Ryan Janek Wolowski / @ryanjanekwolowski - @nytimes @rockcenterrink @instagram @nycchristmas @christmas.in.nyc @christmasnyc @_nyc_christmas @christmas_in_new_york_city @iloveny @ilove_newyo @visitnyc @swarovski @stpatrickscathedral @saks @bergdorfs I❤️NY
*************** Christmas Origins *****************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
****************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
****
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Yule Winter solstice shortest day of the year
Birthplace of Jesus, the town of Bethlehem of Judea, about six miles south of Jerusalem (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
The first Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration was held in 1904
The first New Year’s Eve Ball lowering celebration atop One Times Square was in 1907
First Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center NYC was erected in 1931, during the Depression-era construction of Rockefeller Center, when workers decorated a smaller 20 foot balsam fir with "strings of cranberries, garlands of paper, and even a few tin cans"
1933, a Rockefeller Center publicist decided to make the tree an annual tradition, and they held the first official lighting ceremony with a 50-foot tree.
Rockefeller Center skating rink was opened below the tree in the plaza in 1936 and that year they put up two trees for the celebration
Rockefeller Center has been designated a National Historic Landmark this site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States Of America 1987
Rockefeller Center Christmas tree every year since 2007, lumber milled from the Christmas tree has been given to Habitat for Humanity to help a family build a new home
The National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C. was lit for the first time by US President Calvin Coolidge Republican on Christmas eve December 24th 1923
Carnaval de Québec Canada first opened in 1984 which ran from January 29 to February 3
Canarsie Brooklyn Christmas Lights in NYC first beginning in 1963
Dyker Heights Christmas Lights Brooklyn NY cited to be started by Lucy Spata when she moved to the neighborhood in the 1980s
The Annual Port Jefferson Charles Dickens Festival on Long Island in New York State started in 1996
#MerryChristmas #HappyChristmas #Christmas #ChristmasParty #ChristmasTown #NY #NewYork #ChristmasVillage #Festival #Holiday #winter #snow #theater #theatre #family #familyevent #USA #book #books #literature #AmericanLiterature #Christmasevent #ChristmasEve #art #fun #Yule #Jól #Yuletide #Yuletime #Yulefest #YuleTree #Mistletoe #Wintersolstice #Winter #midwinter #WinterFestival #Saturnalia #Befana #BefanaWitch #BefanaChristmasWitch #Santa #SantaClaus
*************
Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max Smartphone 4K night video
*****
Photos and videos by RyanReporting #RyanReporting
November 13th 2021
#RockefellerCenter 89th Annual #ChristmasTreeLighting #🎄 December 1st 2021
#RockCenterNYC @rockcenternyc
30 #RockefellerPlaza Midtown neighborhood Manhattan Island borough NYC 🌃 New York State 10111 zip code #USA country North America continent
#Winter ❄️ season
Wednesday December 1st 2021 from 7-9pm
#RockCenterXmas @RockCenterXmas
#ChristmasInRockefellerCenter broadcast live on #NBC4NY @nbcnewyork NASDAQ #CMCSA $CMCSA -
Live performances in 2020 included #DollyParton #KellyClarkson
Rockefeller Center has been designated a #NationalHistoricLandmark this site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the #UnitedStatesOfAmerica 1987 #NationalParkService @nationalparkservice United States #DepartmentOfTheInterior @usinterior -
The first #ChristmasTree a 20 foot Balsam Fir was brought by #ConstructionWorkers in 1931 -
The 2021 #tree is a 79 foot #NorwaySpruce donated by Devon and Julie Price, parishioners at Immaculate Conception Church in Elkton, Maryland
lit with 50,000 #LEDLights and topped with a #SwarovskiCrystal star ⭐️ containing 3 million Swarovski crystals designed by #DanielLibeskind @DanielLibeskind in 2018
The Christmas Tree 🌲 will be lit daily from 6am-12am. On Christmas Day, the Tree is lit for 24 hours and on New Year’s Eve it is lit from 6am to 9pm
The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree will be on display to the public until Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022.
#Epiphany #ThreeKingsDay Thursday January 6th 2022
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112
After Rockefeller Center the tree will be donated to #HabitatForHumanity @habitatforhumanity to help build a new home 🏡 -
@apple @iPhonePhotography Merry Christmas #🎅 #Yule photos by Ryan Janek Wolowski / @ryanjanekwolowski - @nytimes @rockcenterrink @instagram @nycchristmas @christmas.in.nyc @christmasnyc @_nyc_christmas @christmas_in_new_york_city @iloveny @ilove_newyo @visitnyc @swarovski @stpatrickscathedral @saks @bergdorfs I❤️NY
*************** Christmas Origins *****************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
****************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
****
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Yule Winter solstice shortest day of the year
Birthplace of Jesus, the town of Bethlehem of Judea, about six miles south of Jerusalem (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
The first Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration was held in 1904
The first New Year’s Eve Ball lowering celebration atop One Times Square was in 1907
First Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center NYC was erected in 1931, during the Depression-era construction of Rockefeller Center, when workers decorated a smaller 20 foot balsam fir with "strings of cranberries, garlands of paper, and even a few tin cans"
1933, a Rockefeller Center publicist decided to make the tree an annual tradition, and they held the first official lighting ceremony with a 50-foot tree.
Rockefeller Center skating rink was opened below the tree in the plaza in 1936 and that year they put up two trees for the celebration
Rockefeller Center has been designated a National Historic Landmark this site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States Of America 1987
Rockefeller Center Christmas tree every year since 2007, lumber milled from the Christmas tree has been given to Habitat for Humanity to help a family build a new home
The National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C. was lit for the first time by US President Calvin Coolidge Republican on Christmas eve December 24th 1923
Carnaval de Québec Canada first opened in 1984 which ran from January 29 to February 3
Canarsie Brooklyn Christmas Lights in NYC first beginning in 1963
Dyker Heights Christmas Lights Brooklyn NY cited to be started by Lucy Spata when she moved to the neighborhood in the 1980s
The Annual Port Jefferson Charles Dickens Festival on Long Island in New York State started in 1996
#MerryChristmas #HappyChristmas #Christmas #ChristmasParty #ChristmasTown #NY #NewYork #ChristmasVillage #Festival #Holiday #winter #snow #theater #theatre #family #familyevent #USA #book #books #literature #AmericanLiterature #Christmasevent #ChristmasEve #art #fun #Yule #Jól #Yuletide #Yuletime #Yulefest #YuleTree #Mistletoe #Wintersolstice #Winter #midwinter #WinterFestival #Saturnalia #Befana #BefanaWitch #BefanaChristmasWitch #Santa #SantaClaus
*************
Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max Smartphone 4K night video
*****
Photos and videos by RyanReporting #RyanReporting
November 13th 2021
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
*****************
Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
****************************************
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
*******************************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
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Photo
Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
*****************
Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
****************************************
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
*******************************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
****************
Hashtag metadata tag
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Photo
Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
#RockefellerCenter 89th Annual #ChristmasTreeLighting #🎄 December 1st 2021
#RockCenterNYC @rockcenternyc
30 #RockefellerPlaza Midtown neighborhood Manhattan Island borough NYC 🌃 New York State 10111 zip code #USA country North America continent
#Winter ❄️ season
Wednesday December 1st 2021 from 7-9pm
#RockCenterXmas @RockCenterXmas
#ChristmasInRockefellerCenter broadcast live on #NBC4NY @nbcnewyork NASDAQ #CMCSA $CMCSA -
Live performances in 2020 included #DollyParton #KellyClarkson
Rockefeller Center has been designated a #NationalHistoricLandmark this site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the #UnitedStatesOfAmerica 1987 #NationalParkService @nationalparkservice United States #DepartmentOfTheInterior @usinterior -
The first #ChristmasTree a 20 foot Balsam Fir was brought by #ConstructionWorkers in 1931 -
The 2021 #tree is a 79 foot #NorwaySpruce donated by Devon and Julie Price, parishioners at Immaculate Conception Church in Elkton, Maryland
lit with 50,000 #LEDLights and topped with a #SwarovskiCrystal star ⭐️ containing 3 million Swarovski crystals designed by #DanielLibeskind @DanielLibeskind in 2018
The Christmas Tree 🌲 will be lit daily from 6am-12am. On Christmas Day, the Tree is lit for 24 hours and on New Year’s Eve it is lit from 6am to 9pm
The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree will be on display to the public until Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022.
#Epiphany #ThreeKingsDay Thursday January 6th 2022
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112
After Rockefeller Center the tree will be donated to #HabitatForHumanity @habitatforhumanity to help build a new home 🏡 -
@apple @iPhonePhotography Merry Christmas #🎅 #Yule photos by Ryan Janek Wolowski / @ryanjanekwolowski - @nytimes @rockcenterrink @instagram @nycchristmas @christmas.in.nyc @christmasnyc @_nyc_christmas @christmas_in_new_york_city @iloveny @ilove_newyo @visitnyc @swarovski @stpatrickscathedral @saks @bergdorfs I❤️NY
*************** Christmas Origins *****************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
****************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
****
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Yule Winter solstice shortest day of the year
Birthplace of Jesus, the town of Bethlehem of Judea, about six miles south of Jerusalem (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
The first Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration was held in 1904
The first New Year’s Eve Ball lowering celebration atop One Times Square was in 1907
First Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center NYC was erected in 1931, during the Depression-era construction of Rockefeller Center, when workers decorated a smaller 20 foot balsam fir with "strings of cranberries, garlands of paper, and even a few tin cans"
1933, a Rockefeller Center publicist decided to make the tree an annual tradition, and they held the first official lighting ceremony with a 50-foot tree.
Rockefeller Center skating rink was opened below the tree in the plaza in 1936 and that year they put up two trees for the celebration
Rockefeller Center has been designated a National Historic Landmark this site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States Of America 1987
Rockefeller Center Christmas tree every year since 2007, lumber milled from the Christmas tree has been given to Habitat for Humanity to help a family build a new home
The National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C. was lit for the first time by US President Calvin Coolidge Republican on Christmas eve December 24th 1923
Carnaval de Québec Canada first opened in 1984 which ran from January 29 to February 3
Canarsie Brooklyn Christmas Lights in NYC first beginning in 1963
Dyker Heights Christmas Lights Brooklyn NY cited to be started by Lucy Spata when she moved to the neighborhood in the 1980s
The Annual Port Jefferson Charles Dickens Festival on Long Island in New York State started in 1996
#MerryChristmas #HappyChristmas #Christmas #ChristmasParty #ChristmasTown #NY #NewYork #ChristmasVillage #Festival #Holiday #winter #snow #theater #theatre #family #familyevent #USA #book #books #literature #AmericanLiterature #Christmasevent #ChristmasEve #art #fun #Yule #Jól #Yuletide #Yuletime #Yulefest #YuleTree #Mistletoe #Wintersolstice #Winter #midwinter #WinterFestival #Saturnalia #Befana #BefanaWitch #BefanaChristmasWitch #Santa #SantaClaus
*************
Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max Smartphone 4K night video
*****
Photos and videos by RyanReporting #RyanReporting
November 13th 2021
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
*****************
Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
****************************************
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
*******************************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
****************
Hashtag metadata tag
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Photo
Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
#RockefellerCenter 89th Annual #ChristmasTreeLighting #🎄 December 1st 2021
#RockCenterNYC @rockcenternyc
30 #RockefellerPlaza Midtown neighborhood Manhattan Island borough NYC 🌃 New York State 10111 zip code #USA country North America continent
#Winter ❄️ season
Wednesday December 1st 2021 from 7-9pm
#RockCenterXmas @RockCenterXmas
#ChristmasInRockefellerCenter broadcast live on #NBC4NY @nbcnewyork NASDAQ #CMCSA $CMCSA -
Live performances in 2020 included #DollyParton #KellyClarkson
Rockefeller Center has been designated a #NationalHistoricLandmark this site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the #UnitedStatesOfAmerica 1987 #NationalParkService @nationalparkservice United States #DepartmentOfTheInterior @usinterior -
The first #ChristmasTree a 20 foot Balsam Fir was brought by #ConstructionWorkers in 1931 -
The 2021 #tree is a 79 foot #NorwaySpruce donated by Devon and Julie Price, parishioners at Immaculate Conception Church in Elkton, Maryland
lit with 50,000 #LEDLights and topped with a #SwarovskiCrystal star ⭐️ containing 3 million Swarovski crystals designed by #DanielLibeskind @DanielLibeskind in 2018
The Christmas Tree 🌲 will be lit daily from 6am-12am. On Christmas Day, the Tree is lit for 24 hours and on New Year’s Eve it is lit from 6am to 9pm
The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree will be on display to the public until Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022.
#Epiphany #ThreeKingsDay Thursday January 6th 2022
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112
After Rockefeller Center the tree will be donated to #HabitatForHumanity @habitatforhumanity to help build a new home 🏡 -
@apple @iPhonePhotography Merry Christmas #🎅 #Yule photos by Ryan Janek Wolowski / @ryanjanekwolowski - @nytimes @rockcenterrink @instagram @nycchristmas @christmas.in.nyc @christmasnyc @_nyc_christmas @christmas_in_new_york_city @iloveny @ilove_newyo @visitnyc @swarovski @stpatrickscathedral @saks @bergdorfs I❤️NY
*************** Christmas Origins *****************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
****************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
****
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Yule Winter solstice shortest day of the year
Birthplace of Jesus, the town of Bethlehem of Judea, about six miles south of Jerusalem (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
The first Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration was held in 1904
The first New Year’s Eve Ball lowering celebration atop One Times Square was in 1907
First Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center NYC was erected in 1931, during the Depression-era construction of Rockefeller Center, when workers decorated a smaller 20 foot balsam fir with "strings of cranberries, garlands of paper, and even a few tin cans"
1933, a Rockefeller Center publicist decided to make the tree an annual tradition, and they held the first official lighting ceremony with a 50-foot tree.
Rockefeller Center skating rink was opened below the tree in the plaza in 1936 and that year they put up two trees for the celebration
Rockefeller Center has been designated a National Historic Landmark this site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States Of America 1987
Rockefeller Center Christmas tree every year since 2007, lumber milled from the Christmas tree has been given to Habitat for Humanity to help a family build a new home
The National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C. was lit for the first time by US President Calvin Coolidge Republican on Christmas eve December 24th 1923
Carnaval de Québec Canada first opened in 1984 which ran from January 29 to February 3
Canarsie Brooklyn Christmas Lights in NYC first beginning in 1963
Dyker Heights Christmas Lights Brooklyn NY cited to be started by Lucy Spata when she moved to the neighborhood in the 1980s
The Annual Port Jefferson Charles Dickens Festival on Long Island in New York State started in 1996
#MerryChristmas #HappyChristmas #Christmas #ChristmasParty #ChristmasTown #NY #NewYork #ChristmasVillage #Festival #Holiday #winter #snow #theater #theatre #family #familyevent #USA #book #books #literature #AmericanLiterature #Christmasevent #ChristmasEve #art #fun #Yule #Jól #Yuletide #Yuletime #Yulefest #YuleTree #Mistletoe #Wintersolstice #Winter #midwinter #WinterFestival #Saturnalia #Befana #BefanaWitch #BefanaChristmasWitch #Santa #SantaClaus
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Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max Smartphone 4K night video
*****
Photos and videos by RyanReporting #RyanReporting
November 13th 2021
#RockefellerCenter 89th Annual #ChristmasTreeLighting #🎄 December 1st 2021
#RockCenterNYC @rockcenternyc
30 #RockefellerPlaza Midtown neighborhood Manhattan Island borough NYC 🌃 New York State 10111 zip code #USA country North America continent
#Winter ❄️ season
Wednesday December 1st 2021 from 7-9pm
#RockCenterXmas @RockCenterXmas
#ChristmasInRockefellerCenter broadcast live on #NBC4NY @nbcnewyork NASDAQ #CMCSA $CMCSA -
Live performances in 2020 included #DollyParton #KellyClarkson
Rockefeller Center has been designated a #NationalHistoricLandmark this site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the #UnitedStatesOfAmerica 1987 #NationalParkService @nationalparkservice United States #DepartmentOfTheInterior @usinterior -
The first #ChristmasTree a 20 foot Balsam Fir was brought by #ConstructionWorkers in 1931 -
The 2021 #tree is a 79 foot #NorwaySpruce donated by Devon and Julie Price, parishioners at Immaculate Conception Church in Elkton, Maryland
lit with 50,000 #LEDLights and topped with a #SwarovskiCrystal star ⭐️ containing 3 million Swarovski crystals designed by #DanielLibeskind @DanielLibeskind in 2018
The Christmas Tree 🌲 will be lit daily from 6am-12am. On Christmas Day, the Tree is lit for 24 hours and on New Year’s Eve it is lit from 6am to 9pm
The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree will be on display to the public until Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022.
#Epiphany #ThreeKingsDay Thursday January 6th 2022
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112
After Rockefeller Center the tree will be donated to #HabitatForHumanity @habitatforhumanity to help build a new home 🏡 -
@apple @iPhonePhotography Merry Christmas #🎅 #Yule photos by Ryan Janek Wolowski / @ryanjanekwolowski - @nytimes @rockcenterrink @instagram @nycchristmas @christmas.in.nyc @christmasnyc @_nyc_christmas @christmas_in_new_york_city @iloveny @ilove_newyo @visitnyc @swarovski @stpatrickscathedral @saks @bergdorfs I❤️NY
*************** Christmas Origins *****************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
****************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
****
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Yule Winter solstice shortest day of the year
Birthplace of Jesus, the town of Bethlehem of Judea, about six miles south of Jerusalem (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
The first Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration was held in 1904
The first New Year’s Eve Ball lowering celebration atop One Times Square was in 1907
First Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center NYC was erected in 1931, during the Depression-era construction of Rockefeller Center, when workers decorated a smaller 20 foot balsam fir with "strings of cranberries, garlands of paper, and even a few tin cans"
1933, a Rockefeller Center publicist decided to make the tree an annual tradition, and they held the first official lighting ceremony with a 50-foot tree.
Rockefeller Center skating rink was opened below the tree in the plaza in 1936 and that year they put up two trees for the celebration
Rockefeller Center has been designated a National Historic Landmark this site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States Of America 1987
Rockefeller Center Christmas tree every year since 2007, lumber milled from the Christmas tree has been given to Habitat for Humanity to help a family build a new home
The National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C. was lit for the first time by US President Calvin Coolidge Republican on Christmas eve December 24th 1923
Carnaval de Québec Canada first opened in 1984 which ran from January 29 to February 3
Canarsie Brooklyn Christmas Lights in NYC first beginning in 1963
Dyker Heights Christmas Lights Brooklyn NY cited to be started by Lucy Spata when she moved to the neighborhood in the 1980s
The Annual Port Jefferson Charles Dickens Festival on Long Island in New York State started in 1996
#MerryChristmas #HappyChristmas #Christmas #ChristmasParty #ChristmasTown #NY #NewYork #ChristmasVillage #Festival #Holiday #winter #snow #theater #theatre #family #familyevent #USA #book #books #literature #AmericanLiterature #Christmasevent #ChristmasEve #art #fun #Yule #Jól #Yuletide #Yuletime #Yulefest #YuleTree #Mistletoe #Wintersolstice #Winter #midwinter #WinterFestival #Saturnalia #Befana #BefanaWitch #BefanaChristmasWitch #Santa #SantaClaus
*************
Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max Smartphone 4K night video
*****
Photos and videos by RyanReporting #RyanReporting
November 13th 2021
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
*****************
Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
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The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
*******************************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
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Photo
Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
*****************
Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
****************************************
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
*******************************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
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Photo
Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
*****************
Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
****************************************
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
*******************************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
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Hashtag metadata tag
#MerryChristmas #HappyChristmas #Christmas #ChristmasParty #ChristmasTown #CharlesDickens #Dickens #DickensFestival #CharlesDickensFestival #AChristmasCarol #EbenezerScrooge #Scrooge #LongIsland #NY #NewYork #PortJefferson #Victorian #Victorianera #Victorianfashion #UK #UnitedKingdom #British #English #England #GreatBritain #Britain #VictorianChristmas #VictorianFestival #ChristmasVillage #Festival #Holiday #winter #snow #theater #theatre #family #familyevent #ChristmasCarol #Ebenezer #book #books #literature #EnglishLiterature #Christmasevent #ChristmasEve #FancyDress #costume #costumes #art #fun #Yule #Jól #Yuletide #Yuletime #Yulefest #YuleTree #Mistletoe #Wintersolstice #Winter #midwinter #WinterFestival #Saturnalia #Befana #BefanaWitch #BefanaChristmasWitch #Santa #SantaClaus #PortJeff #PortTown
Photo
Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
*****************
Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
****************************************
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
*******************************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
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Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
*****************
Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
****************************************
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
*******************************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
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Photo
Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
*****************
Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
****************************************
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
*******************************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
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Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
*****************
Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
****************************************
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
*******************************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
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Photo
Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
*****************
Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
****************************************
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
*******************************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
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Hashtag metadata tag
#MerryChristmas #HappyChristmas #Christmas #ChristmasParty #ChristmasTown #CharlesDickens #Dickens #DickensFestival #CharlesDickensFestival #AChristmasCarol #EbenezerScrooge #Scrooge #LongIsland #NY #NewYork #PortJefferson #Victorian #Victorianera #Victorianfashion #UK #UnitedKingdom #British #English #England #GreatBritain #Britain #VictorianChristmas #VictorianFestival #ChristmasVillage #Festival #Holiday #winter #snow #theater #theatre #family #familyevent #ChristmasCarol #Ebenezer #book #books #literature #EnglishLiterature #Christmasevent #ChristmasEve #FancyDress #costume #costumes #art #fun #Yule #Jól #Yuletide #Yuletime #Yulefest #YuleTree #Mistletoe #Wintersolstice #Winter #midwinter #WinterFestival #Saturnalia #Befana #BefanaWitch #BefanaChristmasWitch #Santa #SantaClaus #PortJeff #PortTown
Photo
Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
*****************
Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
****************************************
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
*******************************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
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Hashtag metadata tag
#MerryChristmas #HappyChristmas #Christmas #ChristmasParty #ChristmasTown #CharlesDickens #Dickens #DickensFestival #CharlesDickensFestival #AChristmasCarol #EbenezerScrooge #Scrooge #LongIsland #NY #NewYork #PortJefferson #Victorian #Victorianera #Victorianfashion #UK #UnitedKingdom #British #English #England #GreatBritain #Britain #VictorianChristmas #VictorianFestival #ChristmasVillage #Festival #Holiday #winter #snow #theater #theatre #family #familyevent #ChristmasCarol #Ebenezer #book #books #literature #EnglishLiterature #Christmasevent #ChristmasEve #FancyDress #costume #costumes #art #fun #Yule #Jól #Yuletide #Yuletime #Yulefest #YuleTree #Mistletoe #Wintersolstice #Winter #midwinter #WinterFestival #Saturnalia #Befana #BefanaWitch #BefanaChristmasWitch #Santa #SantaClaus #PortJeff #PortTown
Photo
Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
*****************
Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
****************************************
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
*******************************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
****************
Hashtag metadata tag
#MerryChristmas #HappyChristmas #Christmas #ChristmasParty #ChristmasTown #CharlesDickens #Dickens #DickensFestival #CharlesDickensFestival #AChristmasCarol #EbenezerScrooge #Scrooge #LongIsland #NY #NewYork #PortJefferson #Victorian #Victorianera #Victorianfashion #UK #UnitedKingdom #British #English #England #GreatBritain #Britain #VictorianChristmas #VictorianFestival #ChristmasVillage #Festival #Holiday #winter #snow #theater #theatre #family #familyevent #ChristmasCarol #Ebenezer #book #books #literature #EnglishLiterature #Christmasevent #ChristmasEve #FancyDress #costume #costumes #art #fun #Yule #Jól #Yuletide #Yuletime #Yulefest #YuleTree #Mistletoe #Wintersolstice #Winter #midwinter #WinterFestival #Saturnalia #Befana #BefanaWitch #BefanaChristmasWitch #Santa #SantaClaus #PortJeff #PortTown
Photo
Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
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Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
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Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
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The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
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The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
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Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
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Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
*****************
Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
****************************************
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
*******************************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
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Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
#RockefellerCenter 89th Annual #ChristmasTreeLighting #🎄 December 1st 2021
#RockCenterNYC @rockcenternyc
30 #RockefellerPlaza Midtown neighborhood Manhattan Island borough NYC 🌃 New York State 10111 zip code #USA country North America continent
#Winter ❄️ season
Wednesday December 1st 2021 from 7-9pm
#RockCenterXmas @RockCenterXmas
#ChristmasInRockefellerCenter broadcast live on #NBC4NY @nbcnewyork NASDAQ #CMCSA $CMCSA -
Live performances in 2020 included #DollyParton #KellyClarkson
Rockefeller Center has been designated a #NationalHistoricLandmark this site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the #UnitedStatesOfAmerica 1987 #NationalParkService @nationalparkservice United States #DepartmentOfTheInterior @usinterior -
The first #ChristmasTree a 20 foot Balsam Fir was brought by #ConstructionWorkers in 1931 -
The 2021 #tree is a 79 foot #NorwaySpruce donated by Devon and Julie Price, parishioners at Immaculate Conception Church in Elkton, Maryland
lit with 50,000 #LEDLights and topped with a #SwarovskiCrystal star ⭐️ containing 3 million Swarovski crystals designed by #DanielLibeskind @DanielLibeskind in 2018
The Christmas Tree 🌲 will be lit daily from 6am-12am. On Christmas Day, the Tree is lit for 24 hours and on New Year’s Eve it is lit from 6am to 9pm
The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree will be on display to the public until Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022.
#Epiphany #ThreeKingsDay Thursday January 6th 2022
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112
After Rockefeller Center the tree will be donated to #HabitatForHumanity @habitatforhumanity to help build a new home 🏡 -
@apple @iPhonePhotography Merry Christmas #🎅 #Yule photos by Ryan Janek Wolowski / @ryanjanekwolowski - @nytimes @rockcenterrink @instagram @nycchristmas @christmas.in.nyc @christmasnyc @_nyc_christmas @christmas_in_new_york_city @iloveny @ilove_newyo @visitnyc @swarovski @stpatrickscathedral @saks @bergdorfs I❤️NY
*************** Christmas Origins *****************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
****************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
****
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Yule Winter solstice shortest day of the year
Birthplace of Jesus, the town of Bethlehem of Judea, about six miles south of Jerusalem (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
The first Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration was held in 1904
The first New Year’s Eve Ball lowering celebration atop One Times Square was in 1907
First Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center NYC was erected in 1931, during the Depression-era construction of Rockefeller Center, when workers decorated a smaller 20 foot balsam fir with "strings of cranberries, garlands of paper, and even a few tin cans"
1933, a Rockefeller Center publicist decided to make the tree an annual tradition, and they held the first official lighting ceremony with a 50-foot tree.
Rockefeller Center skating rink was opened below the tree in the plaza in 1936 and that year they put up two trees for the celebration
Rockefeller Center has been designated a National Historic Landmark this site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States Of America 1987
Rockefeller Center Christmas tree every year since 2007, lumber milled from the Christmas tree has been given to Habitat for Humanity to help a family build a new home
The National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C. was lit for the first time by US President Calvin Coolidge Republican on Christmas eve December 24th 1923
Carnaval de Québec Canada first opened in 1984 which ran from January 29 to February 3
Canarsie Brooklyn Christmas Lights in NYC first beginning in 1963
Dyker Heights Christmas Lights Brooklyn NY cited to be started by Lucy Spata when she moved to the neighborhood in the 1980s
The Annual Port Jefferson Charles Dickens Festival on Long Island in New York State started in 1996
#MerryChristmas #HappyChristmas #Christmas #ChristmasParty #ChristmasTown #NY #NewYork #ChristmasVillage #Festival #Holiday #winter #snow #theater #theatre #family #familyevent #USA #book #books #literature #AmericanLiterature #Christmasevent #ChristmasEve #art #fun #Yule #Jól #Yuletide #Yuletime #Yulefest #YuleTree #Mistletoe #Wintersolstice #Winter #midwinter #WinterFestival #Saturnalia #Befana #BefanaWitch #BefanaChristmasWitch #Santa #SantaClaus
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Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max Smartphone 4K night video
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Photos and videos by RyanReporting #RyanReporting
November 13th 2021
#RockefellerCenter 89th Annual #ChristmasTreeLighting #🎄 December 1st 2021
#RockCenterNYC @rockcenternyc
30 #RockefellerPlaza Midtown neighborhood Manhattan Island borough NYC 🌃 New York State 10111 zip code #USA country North America continent
#Winter ❄️ season
Wednesday December 1st 2021 from 7-9pm
#RockCenterXmas @RockCenterXmas
#ChristmasInRockefellerCenter broadcast live on #NBC4NY @nbcnewyork NASDAQ #CMCSA $CMCSA -
Live performances in 2020 included #DollyParton #KellyClarkson
Rockefeller Center has been designated a #NationalHistoricLandmark this site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the #UnitedStatesOfAmerica 1987 #NationalParkService @nationalparkservice United States #DepartmentOfTheInterior @usinterior -
The first #ChristmasTree a 20 foot Balsam Fir was brought by #ConstructionWorkers in 1931 -
The 2021 #tree is a 79 foot #NorwaySpruce donated by Devon and Julie Price, parishioners at Immaculate Conception Church in Elkton, Maryland
lit with 50,000 #LEDLights and topped with a #SwarovskiCrystal star ⭐️ containing 3 million Swarovski crystals designed by #DanielLibeskind @DanielLibeskind in 2018
The Christmas Tree 🌲 will be lit daily from 6am-12am. On Christmas Day, the Tree is lit for 24 hours and on New Year’s Eve it is lit from 6am to 9pm
The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree will be on display to the public until Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022.
#Epiphany #ThreeKingsDay Thursday January 6th 2022
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112
After Rockefeller Center the tree will be donated to #HabitatForHumanity @habitatforhumanity to help build a new home 🏡 -
@apple @iPhonePhotography Merry Christmas #🎅 #Yule photos by Ryan Janek Wolowski / @ryanjanekwolowski - @nytimes @rockcenterrink @instagram @nycchristmas @christmas.in.nyc @christmasnyc @_nyc_christmas @christmas_in_new_york_city @iloveny @ilove_newyo @visitnyc @swarovski @stpatrickscathedral @saks @bergdorfs I❤️NY
*************** Christmas Origins *****************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
****************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
****
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Yule Winter solstice shortest day of the year
Birthplace of Jesus, the town of Bethlehem of Judea, about six miles south of Jerusalem (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
The first Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration was held in 1904
The first New Year’s Eve Ball lowering celebration atop One Times Square was in 1907
First Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center NYC was erected in 1931, during the Depression-era construction of Rockefeller Center, when workers decorated a smaller 20 foot balsam fir with "strings of cranberries, garlands of paper, and even a few tin cans"
1933, a Rockefeller Center publicist decided to make the tree an annual tradition, and they held the first official lighting ceremony with a 50-foot tree.
Rockefeller Center skating rink was opened below the tree in the plaza in 1936 and that year they put up two trees for the celebration
Rockefeller Center has been designated a National Historic Landmark this site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States Of America 1987
Rockefeller Center Christmas tree every year since 2007, lumber milled from the Christmas tree has been given to Habitat for Humanity to help a family build a new home
The National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C. was lit for the first time by US President Calvin Coolidge Republican on Christmas eve December 24th 1923
Carnaval de Québec Canada first opened in 1984 which ran from January 29 to February 3
Canarsie Brooklyn Christmas Lights in NYC first beginning in 1963
Dyker Heights Christmas Lights Brooklyn NY cited to be started by Lucy Spata when she moved to the neighborhood in the 1980s
The Annual Port Jefferson Charles Dickens Festival on Long Island in New York State started in 1996
#MerryChristmas #HappyChristmas #Christmas #ChristmasParty #ChristmasTown #NY #NewYork #ChristmasVillage #Festival #Holiday #winter #snow #theater #theatre #family #familyevent #USA #book #books #literature #AmericanLiterature #Christmasevent #ChristmasEve #art #fun #Yule #Jól #Yuletide #Yuletime #Yulefest #YuleTree #Mistletoe #Wintersolstice #Winter #midwinter #WinterFestival #Saturnalia #Befana #BefanaWitch #BefanaChristmasWitch #Santa #SantaClaus
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Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max Smartphone 4K night video
*****
Photos and videos by RyanReporting #RyanReporting
November 13th 2021
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
*****************
Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
****************************************
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
*******************************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
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Hashtag metadata tag
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Photo
Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
*****************
Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
****************************************
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
*******************************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
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Hashtag metadata tag
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Photo
Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
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Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
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The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
*******************************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
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Hashtag metadata tag
#MerryChristmas #HappyChristmas #Christmas #ChristmasParty #ChristmasTown #CharlesDickens #Dickens #DickensFestival #CharlesDickensFestival #AChristmasCarol #EbenezerScrooge #Scrooge #LongIsland #NY #NewYork #PortJefferson #Victorian #Victorianera #Victorianfashion #UK #UnitedKingdom #British #English #England #GreatBritain #Britain #VictorianChristmas #VictorianFestival #ChristmasVillage #Festival #Holiday #winter #snow #theater #theatre #family #familyevent #ChristmasCarol #Ebenezer #book #books #literature #EnglishLiterature #Christmasevent #ChristmasEve #FancyDress #costume #costumes #art #fun #Yule #Jól #Yuletide #Yuletime #Yulefest #YuleTree #Mistletoe #Wintersolstice #Winter #midwinter #WinterFestival #Saturnalia #Befana #BefanaWitch #BefanaChristmasWitch #Santa #SantaClaus #PortJeff #PortTown
Photo
Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
#RockefellerCenter 89th Annual #ChristmasTreeLighting #🎄 December 1st 2021
#RockCenterNYC @rockcenternyc
30 #RockefellerPlaza Midtown neighborhood Manhattan Island borough NYC 🌃 New York State 10111 zip code #USA country North America continent
#Winter ❄️ season
Wednesday December 1st 2021 from 7-9pm
#RockCenterXmas @RockCenterXmas
#ChristmasInRockefellerCenter broadcast live on #NBC4NY @nbcnewyork NASDAQ #CMCSA $CMCSA -
Live performances in 2020 included #DollyParton #KellyClarkson
Rockefeller Center has been designated a #NationalHistoricLandmark this site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the #UnitedStatesOfAmerica 1987 #NationalParkService @nationalparkservice United States #DepartmentOfTheInterior @usinterior -
The first #ChristmasTree a 20 foot Balsam Fir was brought by #ConstructionWorkers in 1931 -
The 2021 #tree is a 79 foot #NorwaySpruce donated by Devon and Julie Price, parishioners at Immaculate Conception Church in Elkton, Maryland
lit with 50,000 #LEDLights and topped with a #SwarovskiCrystal star ⭐️ containing 3 million Swarovski crystals designed by #DanielLibeskind @DanielLibeskind in 2018
The Christmas Tree 🌲 will be lit daily from 6am-12am. On Christmas Day, the Tree is lit for 24 hours and on New Year’s Eve it is lit from 6am to 9pm
The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree will be on display to the public until Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022.
#Epiphany #ThreeKingsDay Thursday January 6th 2022
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112
After Rockefeller Center the tree will be donated to #HabitatForHumanity @habitatforhumanity to help build a new home 🏡 -
@apple @iPhonePhotography Merry Christmas #🎅 #Yule photos by Ryan Janek Wolowski / @ryanjanekwolowski - @nytimes @rockcenterrink @instagram @nycchristmas @christmas.in.nyc @christmasnyc @_nyc_christmas @christmas_in_new_york_city @iloveny @ilove_newyo @visitnyc @swarovski @stpatrickscathedral @saks @bergdorfs I❤️NY
*************** Christmas Origins *****************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
****************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
****
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Yule Winter solstice shortest day of the year
Birthplace of Jesus, the town of Bethlehem of Judea, about six miles south of Jerusalem (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
The first Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration was held in 1904
The first New Year’s Eve Ball lowering celebration atop One Times Square was in 1907
First Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center NYC was erected in 1931, during the Depression-era construction of Rockefeller Center, when workers decorated a smaller 20 foot balsam fir with "strings of cranberries, garlands of paper, and even a few tin cans"
1933, a Rockefeller Center publicist decided to make the tree an annual tradition, and they held the first official lighting ceremony with a 50-foot tree.
Rockefeller Center skating rink was opened below the tree in the plaza in 1936 and that year they put up two trees for the celebration
Rockefeller Center has been designated a National Historic Landmark this site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States Of America 1987
Rockefeller Center Christmas tree every year since 2007, lumber milled from the Christmas tree has been given to Habitat for Humanity to help a family build a new home
The National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C. was lit for the first time by US President Calvin Coolidge Republican on Christmas eve December 24th 1923
Carnaval de Québec Canada first opened in 1984 which ran from January 29 to February 3
Canarsie Brooklyn Christmas Lights in NYC first beginning in 1963
Dyker Heights Christmas Lights Brooklyn NY cited to be started by Lucy Spata when she moved to the neighborhood in the 1980s
The Annual Port Jefferson Charles Dickens Festival on Long Island in New York State started in 1996
#MerryChristmas #HappyChristmas #Christmas #ChristmasParty #ChristmasTown #NY #NewYork #ChristmasVillage #Festival #Holiday #winter #snow #theater #theatre #family #familyevent #USA #book #books #literature #AmericanLiterature #Christmasevent #ChristmasEve #art #fun #Yule #Jól #Yuletide #Yuletime #Yulefest #YuleTree #Mistletoe #Wintersolstice #Winter #midwinter #WinterFestival #Saturnalia #Befana #BefanaWitch #BefanaChristmasWitch #Santa #SantaClaus
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Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max Smartphone 4K night video
*****
Photos and videos by RyanReporting #RyanReporting
November 13th 2021
#RockefellerCenter 89th Annual #ChristmasTreeLighting #🎄 December 1st 2021
#RockCenterNYC @rockcenternyc
30 #RockefellerPlaza Midtown neighborhood Manhattan Island borough NYC 🌃 New York State 10111 zip code #USA country North America continent
#Winter ❄️ season
Wednesday December 1st 2021 from 7-9pm
#RockCenterXmas @RockCenterXmas
#ChristmasInRockefellerCenter broadcast live on #NBC4NY @nbcnewyork NASDAQ #CMCSA $CMCSA -
Live performances in 2020 included #DollyParton #KellyClarkson
Rockefeller Center has been designated a #NationalHistoricLandmark this site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the #UnitedStatesOfAmerica 1987 #NationalParkService @nationalparkservice United States #DepartmentOfTheInterior @usinterior -
The first #ChristmasTree a 20 foot Balsam Fir was brought by #ConstructionWorkers in 1931 -
The 2021 #tree is a 79 foot #NorwaySpruce donated by Devon and Julie Price, parishioners at Immaculate Conception Church in Elkton, Maryland
lit with 50,000 #LEDLights and topped with a #SwarovskiCrystal star ⭐️ containing 3 million Swarovski crystals designed by #DanielLibeskind @DanielLibeskind in 2018
The Christmas Tree 🌲 will be lit daily from 6am-12am. On Christmas Day, the Tree is lit for 24 hours and on New Year’s Eve it is lit from 6am to 9pm
The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree will be on display to the public until Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022.
#Epiphany #ThreeKingsDay Thursday January 6th 2022
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112
After Rockefeller Center the tree will be donated to #HabitatForHumanity @habitatforhumanity to help build a new home 🏡 -
@apple @iPhonePhotography Merry Christmas #🎅 #Yule photos by Ryan Janek Wolowski / @ryanjanekwolowski - @nytimes @rockcenterrink @instagram @nycchristmas @christmas.in.nyc @christmasnyc @_nyc_christmas @christmas_in_new_york_city @iloveny @ilove_newyo @visitnyc @swarovski @stpatrickscathedral @saks @bergdorfs I❤️NY
*************** Christmas Origins *****************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
****************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
****
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Yule Winter solstice shortest day of the year
Birthplace of Jesus, the town of Bethlehem of Judea, about six miles south of Jerusalem (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
The first Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration was held in 1904
The first New Year’s Eve Ball lowering celebration atop One Times Square was in 1907
First Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center NYC was erected in 1931, during the Depression-era construction of Rockefeller Center, when workers decorated a smaller 20 foot balsam fir with "strings of cranberries, garlands of paper, and even a few tin cans"
1933, a Rockefeller Center publicist decided to make the tree an annual tradition, and they held the first official lighting ceremony with a 50-foot tree.
Rockefeller Center skating rink was opened below the tree in the plaza in 1936 and that year they put up two trees for the celebration
Rockefeller Center has been designated a National Historic Landmark this site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States Of America 1987
Rockefeller Center Christmas tree every year since 2007, lumber milled from the Christmas tree has been given to Habitat for Humanity to help a family build a new home
The National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C. was lit for the first time by US President Calvin Coolidge Republican on Christmas eve December 24th 1923
Carnaval de Québec Canada first opened in 1984 which ran from January 29 to February 3
Canarsie Brooklyn Christmas Lights in NYC first beginning in 1963
Dyker Heights Christmas Lights Brooklyn NY cited to be started by Lucy Spata when she moved to the neighborhood in the 1980s
The Annual Port Jefferson Charles Dickens Festival on Long Island in New York State started in 1996
#MerryChristmas #HappyChristmas #Christmas #ChristmasParty #ChristmasTown #NY #NewYork #ChristmasVillage #Festival #Holiday #winter #snow #theater #theatre #family #familyevent #USA #book #books #literature #AmericanLiterature #Christmasevent #ChristmasEve #art #fun #Yule #Jól #Yuletide #Yuletime #Yulefest #YuleTree #Mistletoe #Wintersolstice #Winter #midwinter #WinterFestival #Saturnalia #Befana #BefanaWitch #BefanaChristmasWitch #Santa #SantaClaus
*************
Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max Smartphone 4K night video
*****
Photos and videos by RyanReporting #RyanReporting
November 13th 2021
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
*****************
Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
****************************************
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
*******************************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
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Hashtag metadata tag
#MerryChristmas #HappyChristmas #Christmas #ChristmasParty #ChristmasTown #CharlesDickens #Dickens #DickensFestival #CharlesDickensFestival #AChristmasCarol #EbenezerScrooge #Scrooge #LongIsland #NY #NewYork #PortJefferson #Victorian #Victorianera #Victorianfashion #UK #UnitedKingdom #British #English #England #GreatBritain #Britain #VictorianChristmas #VictorianFestival #ChristmasVillage #Festival #Holiday #winter #snow #theater #theatre #family #familyevent #ChristmasCarol #Ebenezer #book #books #literature #EnglishLiterature #Christmasevent #ChristmasEve #FancyDress #costume #costumes #art #fun #Yule #Jól #Yuletide #Yuletime #Yulefest #YuleTree #Mistletoe #Wintersolstice #Winter #midwinter #WinterFestival #Saturnalia #Befana #BefanaWitch #BefanaChristmasWitch #Santa #SantaClaus #PortJeff #PortTown
Photo
Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
#RockefellerCenter 89th Annual #ChristmasTreeLighting #🎄 December 1st 2021
#RockCenterNYC @rockcenternyc
30 #RockefellerPlaza Midtown neighborhood Manhattan Island borough NYC 🌃 New York State 10111 zip code #USA country North America continent
#Winter ❄️ season
Wednesday December 1st 2021 from 7-9pm
#RockCenterXmas @RockCenterXmas
#ChristmasInRockefellerCenter broadcast live on #NBC4NY @nbcnewyork NASDAQ #CMCSA $CMCSA -
Live performances in 2020 included #DollyParton #KellyClarkson
Rockefeller Center has been designated a #NationalHistoricLandmark this site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the #UnitedStatesOfAmerica 1987 #NationalParkService @nationalparkservice United States #DepartmentOfTheInterior @usinterior -
The first #ChristmasTree a 20 foot Balsam Fir was brought by #ConstructionWorkers in 1931 -
The 2021 #tree is a 79 foot #NorwaySpruce donated by Devon and Julie Price, parishioners at Immaculate Conception Church in Elkton, Maryland
lit with 50,000 #LEDLights and topped with a #SwarovskiCrystal star ⭐️ containing 3 million Swarovski crystals designed by #DanielLibeskind @DanielLibeskind in 2018
The Christmas Tree 🌲 will be lit daily from 6am-12am. On Christmas Day, the Tree is lit for 24 hours and on New Year’s Eve it is lit from 6am to 9pm
The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree will be on display to the public until Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022.
#Epiphany #ThreeKingsDay Thursday January 6th 2022
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112
After Rockefeller Center the tree will be donated to #HabitatForHumanity @habitatforhumanity to help build a new home 🏡 -
@apple @iPhonePhotography Merry Christmas #🎅 #Yule photos by Ryan Janek Wolowski / @ryanjanekwolowski - @nytimes @rockcenterrink @instagram @nycchristmas @christmas.in.nyc @christmasnyc @_nyc_christmas @christmas_in_new_york_city @iloveny @ilove_newyo @visitnyc @swarovski @stpatrickscathedral @saks @bergdorfs I❤️NY
*************** Christmas Origins *****************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
****************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
****
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Yule Winter solstice shortest day of the year
Birthplace of Jesus, the town of Bethlehem of Judea, about six miles south of Jerusalem (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
The first Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration was held in 1904
The first New Year’s Eve Ball lowering celebration atop One Times Square was in 1907
First Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center NYC was erected in 1931, during the Depression-era construction of Rockefeller Center, when workers decorated a smaller 20 foot balsam fir with "strings of cranberries, garlands of paper, and even a few tin cans"
1933, a Rockefeller Center publicist decided to make the tree an annual tradition, and they held the first official lighting ceremony with a 50-foot tree.
Rockefeller Center skating rink was opened below the tree in the plaza in 1936 and that year they put up two trees for the celebration
Rockefeller Center has been designated a National Historic Landmark this site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States Of America 1987
Rockefeller Center Christmas tree every year since 2007, lumber milled from the Christmas tree has been given to Habitat for Humanity to help a family build a new home
The National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C. was lit for the first time by US President Calvin Coolidge Republican on Christmas eve December 24th 1923
Carnaval de Québec Canada first opened in 1984 which ran from January 29 to February 3
Canarsie Brooklyn Christmas Lights in NYC first beginning in 1963
Dyker Heights Christmas Lights Brooklyn NY cited to be started by Lucy Spata when she moved to the neighborhood in the 1980s
The Annual Port Jefferson Charles Dickens Festival on Long Island in New York State started in 1996
#MerryChristmas #HappyChristmas #Christmas #ChristmasParty #ChristmasTown #NY #NewYork #ChristmasVillage #Festival #Holiday #winter #snow #theater #theatre #family #familyevent #USA #book #books #literature #AmericanLiterature #Christmasevent #ChristmasEve #art #fun #Yule #Jól #Yuletide #Yuletime #Yulefest #YuleTree #Mistletoe #Wintersolstice #Winter #midwinter #WinterFestival #Saturnalia #Befana #BefanaWitch #BefanaChristmasWitch #Santa #SantaClaus
*************
Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max Smartphone 4K night video
*****
Photos and videos by RyanReporting #RyanReporting
November 13th 2021
#RockefellerCenter 89th Annual #ChristmasTreeLighting #🎄 December 1st 2021
#RockCenterNYC @rockcenternyc
30 #RockefellerPlaza Midtown neighborhood Manhattan Island borough NYC 🌃 New York State 10111 zip code #USA country North America continent
#Winter ❄️ season
Wednesday December 1st 2021 from 7-9pm
#RockCenterXmas @RockCenterXmas
#ChristmasInRockefellerCenter broadcast live on #NBC4NY @nbcnewyork NASDAQ #CMCSA $CMCSA -
Live performances in 2020 included #DollyParton #KellyClarkson
Rockefeller Center has been designated a #NationalHistoricLandmark this site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the #UnitedStatesOfAmerica 1987 #NationalParkService @nationalparkservice United States #DepartmentOfTheInterior @usinterior -
The first #ChristmasTree a 20 foot Balsam Fir was brought by #ConstructionWorkers in 1931 -
The 2021 #tree is a 79 foot #NorwaySpruce donated by Devon and Julie Price, parishioners at Immaculate Conception Church in Elkton, Maryland
lit with 50,000 #LEDLights and topped with a #SwarovskiCrystal star ⭐️ containing 3 million Swarovski crystals designed by #DanielLibeskind @DanielLibeskind in 2018
The Christmas Tree 🌲 will be lit daily from 6am-12am. On Christmas Day, the Tree is lit for 24 hours and on New Year’s Eve it is lit from 6am to 9pm
The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree will be on display to the public until Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022.
#Epiphany #ThreeKingsDay Thursday January 6th 2022
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112
After Rockefeller Center the tree will be donated to #HabitatForHumanity @habitatforhumanity to help build a new home 🏡 -
@apple @iPhonePhotography Merry Christmas #🎅 #Yule photos by Ryan Janek Wolowski / @ryanjanekwolowski - @nytimes @rockcenterrink @instagram @nycchristmas @christmas.in.nyc @christmasnyc @_nyc_christmas @christmas_in_new_york_city @iloveny @ilove_newyo @visitnyc @swarovski @stpatrickscathedral @saks @bergdorfs I❤️NY
*************** Christmas Origins *****************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
****************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
****
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Yule Winter solstice shortest day of the year
Birthplace of Jesus, the town of Bethlehem of Judea, about six miles south of Jerusalem (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
The first Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration was held in 1904
The first New Year’s Eve Ball lowering celebration atop One Times Square was in 1907
First Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center NYC was erected in 1931, during the Depression-era construction of Rockefeller Center, when workers decorated a smaller 20 foot balsam fir with "strings of cranberries, garlands of paper, and even a few tin cans"
1933, a Rockefeller Center publicist decided to make the tree an annual tradition, and they held the first official lighting ceremony with a 50-foot tree.
Rockefeller Center skating rink was opened below the tree in the plaza in 1936 and that year they put up two trees for the celebration
Rockefeller Center has been designated a National Historic Landmark this site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States Of America 1987
Rockefeller Center Christmas tree every year since 2007, lumber milled from the Christmas tree has been given to Habitat for Humanity to help a family build a new home
The National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C. was lit for the first time by US President Calvin Coolidge Republican on Christmas eve December 24th 1923
Carnaval de Québec Canada first opened in 1984 which ran from January 29 to February 3
Canarsie Brooklyn Christmas Lights in NYC first beginning in 1963
Dyker Heights Christmas Lights Brooklyn NY cited to be started by Lucy Spata when she moved to the neighborhood in the 1980s
The Annual Port Jefferson Charles Dickens Festival on Long Island in New York State started in 1996
#MerryChristmas #HappyChristmas #Christmas #ChristmasParty #ChristmasTown #NY #NewYork #ChristmasVillage #Festival #Holiday #winter #snow #theater #theatre #family #familyevent #USA #book #books #literature #AmericanLiterature #Christmasevent #ChristmasEve #art #fun #Yule #Jól #Yuletide #Yuletime #Yulefest #YuleTree #Mistletoe #Wintersolstice #Winter #midwinter #WinterFestival #Saturnalia #Befana #BefanaWitch #BefanaChristmasWitch #Santa #SantaClaus
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Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max Smartphone 4K night video
*****
Photos and videos by RyanReporting #RyanReporting
November 13th 2021
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
*****************
Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
****************************************
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
*******************************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
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Hashtag metadata tag
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Photo
Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
*****************
Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
****************************************
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
*******************************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
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Hashtag metadata tag
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Photo
Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
*****************
Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
****************************************
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
*******************************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
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Hashtag metadata tag
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Photo
Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
#RockefellerCenter 89th Annual #ChristmasTreeLighting #🎄 December 1st 2021
#RockCenterNYC @rockcenternyc
30 #RockefellerPlaza Midtown neighborhood Manhattan Island borough NYC 🌃 New York State 10111 zip code #USA country North America continent
#Winter ❄️ season
Wednesday December 1st 2021 from 7-9pm
#RockCenterXmas @RockCenterXmas
#ChristmasInRockefellerCenter broadcast live on #NBC4NY @nbcnewyork NASDAQ #CMCSA $CMCSA -
Live performances in 2020 included #DollyParton #KellyClarkson
Rockefeller Center has been designated a #NationalHistoricLandmark this site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the #UnitedStatesOfAmerica 1987 #NationalParkService @nationalparkservice United States #DepartmentOfTheInterior @usinterior -
The first #ChristmasTree a 20 foot Balsam Fir was brought by #ConstructionWorkers in 1931 -
The 2021 #tree is a 79 foot #NorwaySpruce donated by Devon and Julie Price, parishioners at Immaculate Conception Church in Elkton, Maryland
lit with 50,000 #LEDLights and topped with a #SwarovskiCrystal star ⭐️ containing 3 million Swarovski crystals designed by #DanielLibeskind @DanielLibeskind in 2018
The Christmas Tree 🌲 will be lit daily from 6am-12am. On Christmas Day, the Tree is lit for 24 hours and on New Year’s Eve it is lit from 6am to 9pm
The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree will be on display to the public until Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022.
#Epiphany #ThreeKingsDay Thursday January 6th 2022
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112
After Rockefeller Center the tree will be donated to #HabitatForHumanity @habitatforhumanity to help build a new home 🏡 -
@apple @iPhonePhotography Merry Christmas #🎅 #Yule photos by Ryan Janek Wolowski / @ryanjanekwolowski - @nytimes @rockcenterrink @instagram @nycchristmas @christmas.in.nyc @christmasnyc @_nyc_christmas @christmas_in_new_york_city @iloveny @ilove_newyo @visitnyc @swarovski @stpatrickscathedral @saks @bergdorfs I❤️NY
*************** Christmas Origins *****************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
****************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
****
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Yule Winter solstice shortest day of the year
Birthplace of Jesus, the town of Bethlehem of Judea, about six miles south of Jerusalem (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
The first Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration was held in 1904
The first New Year’s Eve Ball lowering celebration atop One Times Square was in 1907
First Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center NYC was erected in 1931, during the Depression-era construction of Rockefeller Center, when workers decorated a smaller 20 foot balsam fir with "strings of cranberries, garlands of paper, and even a few tin cans"
1933, a Rockefeller Center publicist decided to make the tree an annual tradition, and they held the first official lighting ceremony with a 50-foot tree.
Rockefeller Center skating rink was opened below the tree in the plaza in 1936 and that year they put up two trees for the celebration
Rockefeller Center has been designated a National Historic Landmark this site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States Of America 1987
Rockefeller Center Christmas tree every year since 2007, lumber milled from the Christmas tree has been given to Habitat for Humanity to help a family build a new home
The National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C. was lit for the first time by US President Calvin Coolidge Republican on Christmas eve December 24th 1923
Carnaval de Québec Canada first opened in 1984 which ran from January 29 to February 3
Canarsie Brooklyn Christmas Lights in NYC first beginning in 1963
Dyker Heights Christmas Lights Brooklyn NY cited to be started by Lucy Spata when she moved to the neighborhood in the 1980s
The Annual Port Jefferson Charles Dickens Festival on Long Island in New York State started in 1996
#MerryChristmas #HappyChristmas #Christmas #ChristmasParty #ChristmasTown #NY #NewYork #ChristmasVillage #Festival #Holiday #winter #snow #theater #theatre #family #familyevent #USA #book #books #literature #AmericanLiterature #Christmasevent #ChristmasEve #art #fun #Yule #Jól #Yuletide #Yuletime #Yulefest #YuleTree #Mistletoe #Wintersolstice #Winter #midwinter #WinterFestival #Saturnalia #Befana #BefanaWitch #BefanaChristmasWitch #Santa #SantaClaus
*************
Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max Smartphone 4K night video
*****
Photos and videos by RyanReporting #RyanReporting
November 13th 2021
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
*****************
Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
****************************************
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
*******************************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
****************
Hashtag metadata tag
#MerryChristmas #HappyChristmas #Christmas #ChristmasParty #ChristmasTown #CharlesDickens #Dickens #DickensFestival #CharlesDickensFestival #AChristmasCarol #EbenezerScrooge #Scrooge #LongIsland #NY #NewYork #PortJefferson #Victorian #Victorianera #Victorianfashion #UK #UnitedKingdom #British #English #England #GreatBritain #Britain #VictorianChristmas #VictorianFestival #ChristmasVillage #Festival #Holiday #winter #snow #theater #theatre #family #familyevent #ChristmasCarol #Ebenezer #book #books #literature #EnglishLiterature #Christmasevent #ChristmasEve #FancyDress #costume #costumes #art #fun #Yule #Jól #Yuletide #Yuletime #Yulefest #YuleTree #Mistletoe #Wintersolstice #Winter #midwinter #WinterFestival #Saturnalia #Befana #BefanaWitch #BefanaChristmasWitch #Santa #SantaClaus #PortJeff #PortTown
Photo
Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
#RockefellerCenter 89th Annual #ChristmasTreeLighting #🎄 December 1st 2021
#RockCenterNYC @rockcenternyc
30 #RockefellerPlaza Midtown neighborhood Manhattan Island borough NYC 🌃 New York State 10111 zip code #USA country North America continent
#Winter ❄️ season
Wednesday December 1st 2021 from 7-9pm
#RockCenterXmas @RockCenterXmas
#ChristmasInRockefellerCenter broadcast live on #NBC4NY @nbcnewyork NASDAQ #CMCSA $CMCSA -
Live performances in 2020 included #DollyParton #KellyClarkson
Rockefeller Center has been designated a #NationalHistoricLandmark this site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the #UnitedStatesOfAmerica 1987 #NationalParkService @nationalparkservice United States #DepartmentOfTheInterior @usinterior -
The first #ChristmasTree a 20 foot Balsam Fir was brought by #ConstructionWorkers in 1931 -
The 2021 #tree is a 79 foot #NorwaySpruce donated by Devon and Julie Price, parishioners at Immaculate Conception Church in Elkton, Maryland
lit with 50,000 #LEDLights and topped with a #SwarovskiCrystal star ⭐️ containing 3 million Swarovski crystals designed by #DanielLibeskind @DanielLibeskind in 2018
The Christmas Tree 🌲 will be lit daily from 6am-12am. On Christmas Day, the Tree is lit for 24 hours and on New Year’s Eve it is lit from 6am to 9pm
The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree will be on display to the public until Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022.
#Epiphany #ThreeKingsDay Thursday January 6th 2022
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112
After Rockefeller Center the tree will be donated to #HabitatForHumanity @habitatforhumanity to help build a new home 🏡 -
@apple @iPhonePhotography Merry Christmas #🎅 #Yule photos by Ryan Janek Wolowski / @ryanjanekwolowski - @nytimes @rockcenterrink @instagram @nycchristmas @christmas.in.nyc @christmasnyc @_nyc_christmas @christmas_in_new_york_city @iloveny @ilove_newyo @visitnyc @swarovski @stpatrickscathedral @saks @bergdorfs I❤️NY
*************** Christmas Origins *****************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
****************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
****
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Yule Winter solstice shortest day of the year
Birthplace of Jesus, the town of Bethlehem of Judea, about six miles south of Jerusalem (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
The first Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration was held in 1904
The first New Year’s Eve Ball lowering celebration atop One Times Square was in 1907
First Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center NYC was erected in 1931, during the Depression-era construction of Rockefeller Center, when workers decorated a smaller 20 foot balsam fir with "strings of cranberries, garlands of paper, and even a few tin cans"
1933, a Rockefeller Center publicist decided to make the tree an annual tradition, and they held the first official lighting ceremony with a 50-foot tree.
Rockefeller Center skating rink was opened below the tree in the plaza in 1936 and that year they put up two trees for the celebration
Rockefeller Center has been designated a National Historic Landmark this site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States Of America 1987
Rockefeller Center Christmas tree every year since 2007, lumber milled from the Christmas tree has been given to Habitat for Humanity to help a family build a new home
The National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C. was lit for the first time by US President Calvin Coolidge Republican on Christmas eve December 24th 1923
Carnaval de Québec Canada first opened in 1984 which ran from January 29 to February 3
Canarsie Brooklyn Christmas Lights in NYC first beginning in 1963
Dyker Heights Christmas Lights Brooklyn NY cited to be started by Lucy Spata when she moved to the neighborhood in the 1980s
The Annual Port Jefferson Charles Dickens Festival on Long Island in New York State started in 1996
#MerryChristmas #HappyChristmas #Christmas #ChristmasParty #ChristmasTown #NY #NewYork #ChristmasVillage #Festival #Holiday #winter #snow #theater #theatre #family #familyevent #USA #book #books #literature #AmericanLiterature #Christmasevent #ChristmasEve #art #fun #Yule #Jól #Yuletide #Yuletime #Yulefest #YuleTree #Mistletoe #Wintersolstice #Winter #midwinter #WinterFestival #Saturnalia #Befana #BefanaWitch #BefanaChristmasWitch #Santa #SantaClaus
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November 13th 2021
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
*****************
Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
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The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
*******************************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
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Photo
Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
*****************
Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
****************************************
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
*******************************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
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Photo
Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
*****************
Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
****************************************
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
*******************************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
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Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
#NationalChristmasTree #🎄 @TheNationalTree at the #WhiteHouse @WhiteHouse in #WashingtonDC @WashingtonDC #USA @USA #🇺🇸 December 22nd 2019 while #PresidentOfTheUnitedStates #POTUS #DonaldTrump @realdonaldtrump #RealDonaldTrump #Trump was in office as the 45th president of the United States of America 🇺🇸 - #CalvinCoolidge was the first #USPresident to light the #NationalTree #🌲 on #ChristmasEve in 1923 - #NationalParkService @NationalParkService #USDepartmentOfTheInterior @USInterior #TheEllipse #PresidentsPark #WashingtonMonument - #TheWhiteHouse 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington DC 20500 USA - #Republican Administration 2019 - #WinterSolstice #ChristmasAtTheWhiteHouse #AmericanChristmas #ChristmasInAmerica #ChristmasTree #YuleTree #MerryChristmas - iPhone 📱 Photo by RyanReporting
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
*****************
Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
****************************************
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
*******************************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
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Hashtag metadata tag
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Photo
Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
*****************
Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
****************************************
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
*******************************
Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
*********************************
Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
********************************
Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
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Hashtag metadata tag
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Photo
Port Jefferson Village, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York state, USA United States of America country, North America continent
December 3rd 2016
The 21st annual Charles Dickens Festival
The Dickens Festival is a celebration of the author of A Christmas Carol, featuring the Village of Port Jefferson magically transformed into the Dickensian era with streets filled with roaming characters such as Father Christmas, Dickens Mayor, Scrooge, the Town Crier and the beloved chimney sweeps.
The 21st Annual Dickens Festival concludes with a Parade of Puppets and ceremony at Village Hall on Sunday evening.
Charles John Huffam Dickens an English writer and social critic born in 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843.
***************************
Charles Dickens author:
Oliver Twist (1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
David Copperfield (1850)
A Child's History of England (1853)
The Haunted House (1859)
A Holiday Romance (1868)
*****************
Street Character Performances inclued
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Scrooge as Mrs. Emily Cratchit (Bob Cratchit's wife and mother of Timothy "Tiny Tim" Cratchit) based upon the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 2pm
Saturday 5pm
Sunday 12noon
Sunday 2pm
Terry Ryan Vlahos performing in Oliver! as Mrs. Corney – matron at Oliver's workhouse based upon the 1839 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Four shows:
Saturday 1pm
Saturday 4pm
Sunday 1pm
Sunday 3pm
Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian Englishman street character performance
Saturday 5 to 9:30pm
Tapestry Boston based vocal ensemble presents an evening of Kalanta (traditional Greek carols) Village Center 7 - 8:15pm
Theresa Irene Wolowski street character performance as
Charles Dickens older sister Mrs Frances Fanny Elizabeth Dickens Burnett born in 1810
Dickens Through December
December 10th 2016
*********************************
The Dickens Festival takes place in The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson in the Town of Brookhaven on the North Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.
Directions:
LIRR Long Island Rail Road to Port Jefferson
Long Island Expressway to Exit 62
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The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 till 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.
Terry Ryan Vlahos and Ryan Janek Wolowski Victorian era family members - grandparents
Elizabeth McDOUGALL was born December 8th 1895 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Thomas Joseph RYAN was born Sep 8th 1896 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
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Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843
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Additional famous Christmas story:
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823
Clement Clarke Moore USA
with the quote:
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night"
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Believed Christmas origins:
Christmas Tree - Germany
Advent wreath - Germany
Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880
Christmas Cards - England 1843
Befana Christmas Witch - Italy
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939
Birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, (area now Palestine)
Poinsettia red flowers - México
First documented snowman Netherlands 1380
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December 3rd 2016