Whether it was a puppet band singing Christmas songs to make money for gifts, a family trying to find out who’s killing off ...

What does Christmas mean to you? The Beacon Journal asked children that question in December 1970. Youngsters were invited to jot down a few lines and mail them to the newspaper’s office. Hundreds of ...

It was the era of disco, vol-au-vents and flares. But while we may no longer yearn for sequined trousers, in many ways little has changed since Christmas in the 1970s. Inflation is still sky-high, ...

Dec. 11—I was born in 1958, so my most vivid childhood Christmas memories cluster around the late 1960s and early 1970s — basically, the Nixon years. They involve toys such as vibrating electric ...