As far as classic Christmas Eve activities go, nothing beats reading the “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” poem with a crackling fireplace, twinkling tree and jolly carols playing in the background.

The poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” better known by its opening line “‘Twas the Night before Christmas,” has a special place among Christmas traditions, right alongside hot chocolate, caroling and ...

The popular poem, actually titled “A Visit From St. Nicholas,” first appeared in The Times’s pages in 1896. By Tina Jordan “In thousands of homes and by hundreds of thousands of children these words ...

FARGO — For more than 200 years, people have been enjoying the melodic rhyming and nostalgic memories associated with Clement C. Moore's poem "Twas the Night Before Christmas." For almost half of that ...

You've heard of the beloved "’Twas the Night Before Christmas" poem. But who actually wrote and inspired these iconic holiday verses? As far as classic Christmas Eve activities go, nothing beats ...