When you think of a yule log, you probably picture a roaring, wood-burning fire casting a warm light on an ornament-adorned Christmas tree. Or perhaps you have a sweet tooth and the first thing that ...

The holiday season is filled with time-honored traditions, and the yule log is one of the many cherished Christmas rituals that have been around for centuries. But when you think of a yule log, two ...

Any other old-school English majors out there tasked with memorizing and then reciting the prologue of The Canterbury Tales in Old English back in the day? If so, chances are, you haven’t recovered.

The Yule log, or bûche de Noël in French, is a dessert that evokes the warmth and joy of the Christmas holidays. But what is the origin of this tradition? To find the answer, we must go back to much ...

William & Mary’s most lasting holiday tradition — the Yule Log ceremony — dates back 90 years ago when the university’s president began his annual Christmas party for students and faculty. In the ...

Christmas Eve is full of rituals and symbolism, vivid practices, all of which are connected to the family cult and the cult ...

For 56 years, Asylum Hill Congregational Church in Hartford has taken Christmas pageants to a whole new level. Their annual Boar’s Head and Yule Log Festival, which runs this weekend, is a feast for ...

This article originally ran on Dec. 25, 2008. From a TV perspective, Christmas Eve 1966 looked grim. The regular Saturday night college basketball broadcast was suspended due to the holiday, and while ...