ROCHESTER — It was Christmas Eve of 1953 in Rochester, and 9-year-old John Paul Stephenson — the new kid in town, an Arkansas boy in his first winter in Rochester — was meeting up with a new friend.

A snowy Christmas Eve midnight mass in 1953 set the scene for what would turn out to be my most vivid Christmas memory. I was 7 years old and an angel in the Christmas pageant of our neighborhood ...

It's a Christmas tradition that's been going on now for nearly 65 years. In 1953, Art Clarke, who was 13 and living in Toronto at the time, sent out Christmas cards to six of his friends. All of the ...

Seventy years ago - 1953, the year of the Queen's Coronation at Westminster Abbey, a year in which the economy was still recovering from the war - how did Scots celebrate Christmas? There are ...