<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Year by year the ranks of the Grand Army of the Republic grew thinner — but until the last old soldier was gone, Decoration Day in a New England town was a moving memorial to “the War”</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> Illustrated with late-nineteenth-century magic-lantern slides Together with a brief inquiry into a Christmas mystery</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">Here are 12 classic holiday movies worth seeing when you can’t sit through <em><span class="typestyle"> It’s a Wonderful Life</span></em> one more time.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">From its birth in pagan transactions with the dead to the current marketing push to make it a “seasonal experience,” America’s fastest-growing holiday has a history far older (and far stranger) than does Christmas itself.</span></p>
