Did you know that there's an entire Santa Land at the giant Macy's in Center City Philadelphia? Not only do you get to meet the big man in red himself, but you get to walk through the magic that is ...

Nora’s Dickens Village is bustling with holiday activity. Children skate figure eights around the ice rink in front of Big Ben as Christmas trees sparkle on ground blanketed in snow. Salvation ...

Boardman resident Sandy Moran’s Christmas village is aglow each year. Since she was a child, Moran has created Dickens’ Village scenes, inspired by the novels of Charles Dickens. BOARDMAN ...

In a news conference Thursday, city officials didn’t say what would happen to the light show or Dickens Village, which has been running for nearly four decades. Instead, the focus was on plans to ...

I love the village. I was raised to love Harlem. Sometimes when I walk the streets, tears flow,” Dickens said, looking down on a bustling street. “The federalist architecture that still is ...

The village will transform into the Victorian era with many attendees dressed in period costumes for the 28th annual Charles Dickens Festival. "It’s immense. We have street characters.

After 22 years of marriage and 10 children, Charles Dickens famously dumped his wife, Catherine Dickens, in 1858. Wielding the power of his pen, he alleged that Catherine was mentally unbalanced and ...

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Everyone knows "A Christmas Carol." What everyone doesn't know, now, is that Dickens' 1843 tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts was just the first in a series of annual holiday books.

They also planned to walk through the Dickens Village at the Philadelphia flagship store, an animatronic-filled reenactment of "A Christmas Carol," the classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the ...

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The title page of the first edition of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol Public domain via Wikimedia Commons In the preface to his novella A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens wrote that he ...