OCR Text |
Show i Early Puritans Frowned On Christmas Festivities The early Puritans looked with disfavor upon the celebration of Christmas, preferring instead their own adopted celebration of Thanksgiving. Thanks-giving. It was thus that in the year 1659 the general court of Massachusetts made a decree that would have startling effect in America today. It read: "Anybody who is found observing, by abstinence from labor, feasting or any other way such day as Christmas Day for each and every offense shall be fined five shillings." ' |