Christmas circa 1651
Many people have a romantic image of Christmas in colonial America. While the holiday was observed in some colonies that was not the case in early Massachusetts.
Long before the Grinch, the Puritans stole Christmas, or at least banned it during the seventeenth century. The date, December 25, did not appear in the bible and the Puritans objected to the “mad Mirth...long Eating...hard Drinking... and rude Reveling” that seemed to accompany the holiday.