Jamey sent me a link I thought others might find interesting:  http://www.professorfootnote.com/.  It’s an annotated discussion of how Christmas developed in America.  The Puritans banned Christmas because of their experience of it in England.  So how did Christmas come to America?  This is a very informative discussion.

Mark recently took some pictures of “our” casino, which is now dressed in it’s Christmas garb: