The holiday season is a time to make meaningful and lasting memories with loved ones. One man, 74-year-old John Reichart, took this to heart and was determined to give his Christmas-loving wife Joan ...

Richard Paul Evans has written more than 40 bestselling novels, but he says A Christmas Memory might be his favorite. The book is set in 1967 when Richard is a young boy. His brother was killed in ...

“Oh my,” exclaims the woman with shorn white hair and sherry-colored eyes as she stands by the kitchen window. “It’s fruitcake weather!” So begins Truman Capote’s “A Christmas Memory” — well, sort of.

When it comes to country music, Dolly Parton is the Queen of Christmas. Every year, she goes all out with holiday fashion and has multiple Yuletide albums to choose from. Additionally, Parton has ...

Several FLORIDA TODAY staffers share their holiday memories. When I was growing up, Christmas morning in the Fleming household followed a pretty tight script. Gifts from Mama and Daddy were wrapped ...

For almost twenty years, fans of acclaimed jazz vocalist Annie Sellick have been asking her, “When are you going to make a Christmas album?" Their long wait will be over when Sellick releases Let's ...

As Christmastime approaches in rural, Depression-era Alabama, a young boy and his best friend, an elderly woman distantly related to him, prepare for the impending holiday by gathering ingredients for ...

In 1956, three years before he began writing his bestselling true-crime book “In Cold Blood,” the already famous author Truman Capote wrote a heartwarming short story about his childhood Christmases ...