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Christmas in Bethlehem 2026: Christkindlmarkt, the Star & the Honest Guide
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Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, did not choose Christmas. Christmas chose it. On Christmas Eve in 1741, a small group of Moravian settlers sang a hymn in a stable on the banks of the Lehigh River and named their new settlement Bethlehem, after the biblical birthplace of Jesus. Nearly three centuries later, the town still earns the name: […]