Trees are wonderful, life-giving, magical, legendary, spooky, and just plain interesting. Think of the Ents from The Lord of the Ring, the dryads of Narnia,…
Not all Americans celebrate Thanksgiving. Like Columbus Day, it’s a holiday with troubled historical roots. From the Smithsonian, see The Myths of the Thanksgiving Story…
Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Macbeth are filled with ghosts (and witches); Moaning Myrtle haunts the toilets at Harry Potter’s Hogwarts; and Dickens’s A Christmas Carol boasts not…