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To: epicure who wrote (57840)	12/28/2000 9:35:33 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I've read Martin Luther's explanation of symbolism in the evergreen tree he used as decoration at Christmas time. So the practice must have been accepted in Protestant circles before 1550. Plenty of Germans settled in the Middle Colonies to influence American customs. Your Williamsburg historian mentions the use of evergreens: Christmas in colonial Virginia was very different from our twentieth-century celebration. Eighteenth-century customs don't take long to recount: church, dinner, dancing, some evergreens, visiting--and more and better of these very same for those who could afford more.