Alexander Ramsey's Home: Decked Out For The Holidays
At Alexander Ramsey's home, you can check out the sights and sounds of Christmas during the Victorian Era.
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At Alexander Ramsey's home, you can check out the sights and sounds of Christmas during the Victorian Era.
Shoppers might be excited about Black Friday deals, but there are plenty of protesters, too.
Before every holiday we hear the same reports: a projection of how many Americans are going to get in their cars or hop on airplanes to travel.
Mall of America is getting ready for the big rush of shoppers. The plan is to have all the decorations set for Black Friday. Extra help is hired to put up all the tinsel and lights. The work started right after Halloween, and is still going on.
Check out this round-up of the best garden centers, tree farms and decoration supply locations to get started on your holiday decoration shopping this year.
Three years ago, virtually no stores were open on Thanksgiving Day. This year, Walmart, Sears, Kmart, and Toys 'R' Us will open at 8 p.m. Target will open an hour later at 9 p.m.
For some, holiday travel can be time consuming and stressful. With a bit of planning, however, many travel headaches can be avoided entirely.
Target Corp. will open its doors at 9 p.m. on Thanksgiving, three hours earlier than a year ago, to kick off the holiday shopping season.
Halloween is still several weeks away yet already, some stores are getting ready for Christmas.
There's a mix of displays in a Minneapolis store front that'll likely make you double-take: a skeleton and a Christmas tree.
The holiday season just got a little longer in St. Paul with the announcement of two Trans-Siberian Orchestra concerts.
They may make an odd couple, but discounter Target and luxury merchant Neiman Marcus are jointly offering a limited collection ranging from fashion to sporting goods for the winter holidays.
A Christmas grinch targeted a 91 year old man at a St. Paul gas station, taking a wallet right out of his hand.
A Minneapolis family is thankful for the outpouring of generosity after the children's presents were stolen from right under the tree. Since the incident, it's been one surprise after another for the Ottums.
In Minnesota, we raise more turkeys than anywhere. On Thanksgiving, almost all of us eat the bird. However, achieving the perfectly juicy turkey can be elusive. So, how do you avoid a dry turkey and make it juicy?
Dreams of a white Christmas are hanging by a thread in the North, where unusually mild weather has left the ground bare in many places — a welcome reprieve for people who don't like shoveling, but a lump of coal in the stockings of outdoor sports buffs who miss their winter wonderland.
I was listening to Christmas CDs Thursday and starting to get a little sad about our lack of snow.
Not long after a Minneapolis soldier's family's Christmas presents were all stolen from right under the tree, the family has learned help is on the way.
Best Buy says it won't be able to fill some customers' online orders, just days before Christmas.
In just four short days, millions of Christians around the world will celebrate the birth of Jesus. But was he really born in December?
The holidays can be tough enough when dad is stationed overseas. However, for the Ottum family, that was just the beginning.
Visiting the mall to share Christmas wishes with Santa has never been part of Ben Borre's childhood, a sad but necessary concession to the autism that would make the noise, lights and crowds an unbearable torment for the 10-year-old.
You know the story of Mary, who had to stay in a manger because there was no room at the inn. Now we have the story of Helen, who's running out of room at home -- because it's overflowing with mangers.
How do you explain our wacky weather? On Sunday, the thermometer and calendar did not go together.
Three weeks after Black Friday's mad rush, some sanity has returned to shopping malls and savvy holiday customers have it figured out.
