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From: "Loudene Tollar" <>
Subject: SCOTCH-IRISH CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 07:12:21 -0600


How interesting. Thank you. I would have thought that Scotland and England
would have honored Christmas as a holiday much longer ago than 1950.

I hope to find some traditions that may have had roots in Scotland and
Ireland and carried over to the US. A few years ago I read of an area of
Tennessee that carries on a tradition of greeting visitors with "Christmas
preseent". For years I had heard my older brothers and sisters use that
greeting; but when asked they, didn't know where it came from or why. On
seeing that article it gave me a clue; my maternal grandmother's parents
were from Tennessee.

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