Christmas in Old New York: Holiday History

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

An especially festive podcast with double the holiday fun, tracing the history of Christmas and holiday celebrations over 19th-century New York City history. And a look at Charles Dickens and "A Christmas Carol."

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0:00.0	We've got two all new Bowery Boys Podcasts being prepared for December, but they're only
0:06.4	lightly festive in content, so I thought we present a full-on holiday podcast spectacular for you, courtesy the Gilded
0:16.2	gentleman himself, Carl Raymond, and some very special guests. In the first half
0:21.9	Carl is joined by the King of Christmas history himself,
0:26.0	tour guide Jeff Dobins, whose wildly popular tours look at a wide range of holiday traditions,
0:32.0	from the early Dutch years of New Amsterdam to the first New York
0:36.0	commemorations of Hanukkah in the 19th century.
0:39.9	Then for you scroogged fans out there, Carl chats with actor John Kevin Jones, who has been performing
0:45.9	his annual one-man adaptation of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol at New York's Merchant's House
0:52.2	Museum, a show now in its 11th season.
0:55.0	And by the way, Jeff Dobins is continuing his Christmas and Old New York tours this year,
1:01.0	including a virtual tour for those who don't live in New York or would rather just sit by the tree and take in your holiday history there under the twinkling colored lights.
1:11.0	You can find more information on Jeff's tours at Bowery Boys Walks.com.
1:17.1	But enough Yoltide, log rolling, pour yourself some eggnog and enjoy these stories of Christmas in Old New York. Happy Holidays. You're going to be here. Hi, I'm Carl Raymond, the host of the Gilded Gentlemen History Podcast, where every two weeks we look into the worlds of America's
1:54.9	Guilded Age, France's Belipoc, and England's late Victorian and Edwardian eras.
2:02.1	From the moment, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade ends I feel like
2:06.7	it really is the beginning of the holiday Christmas season here in New York. But as
2:11.3	a historical storyteller I can't help think back to the traditions
2:15.1	that brought us to where we are. In this first part of the show, I'm joined by fellow
2:20.8	New York City licensed tour guide Jeff Dobins to take a look at some of the city's holiday
2:26.5	traditions and how they changed during the 19th century. Jeff is also a regularly published
2:31.6	writer and has written over 150 articles about New York
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