Central Park NYC Autumn Foliage 🍁 walking tour at The Pond New York City USA November 13th 2021

            #RockefellerCenter 89th Annual #ChristmasTreeLighting #🎄 December 1st 2021

#RockCenterNYC @rockcenternyc 

30 #RockefellerPlaza Midtown neighborhood Manhattan Island borough NYC 🌃 New York State 10111 zip code #USA  country North America continent 

#Winter ❄️ season 

Wednesday December 1st  2021 from 7-9pm 

#RockCenterXmas @RockCenterXmas 

#ChristmasInRockefellerCenter broadcast live on #NBC4NY @nbcnewyork NASDAQ #CMCSA $CMCSA - 

Live performances in 2020 included #DollyParton #KellyClarkson 

Rockefeller Center has been designated a #NationalHistoricLandmark this site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the #UnitedStatesOfAmerica 1987 #NationalParkService @nationalparkservice United States #DepartmentOfTheInterior @usinterior - 

The first #ChristmasTree a 20 foot Balsam Fir was brought by #ConstructionWorkers in 1931 - 

The 2021 #tree is a 79 foot #NorwaySpruce  donated by Devon and Julie Price, parishioners at Immaculate Conception Church in Elkton, Maryland 

lit with 50,000 #LEDLights and topped with a #SwarovskiCrystal star ⭐️ containing 3 million Swarovski crystals designed by #DanielLibeskind @DanielLibeskind in 2018

The Christmas Tree 🌲 will be lit daily from 6am-12am. On Christmas Day, the Tree is lit for 24 hours and on New Year’s Eve it is lit from 6am to 9pm

The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree will be on display to the public until Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022.

#Epiphany #ThreeKingsDay Thursday January 6th 2022

30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112

After Rockefeller Center the tree will be donated to #HabitatForHumanity @habitatforhumanity to help build a new home 🏡 - 

@apple @iPhonePhotography Merry Christmas #🎅 #Yule photos by Ryan Janek Wolowski / @ryanjanekwolowski - @nytimes @rockcenterrink @instagram @nycchristmas @christmas.in.nyc @christmasnyc @_nyc_christmas @christmas_in_new_york_city @iloveny @ilove_newyo @visitnyc @swarovski @stpatrickscathedral @saks @bergdorfs I❤️NY

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Authors Washington Irving (USA) and Charles Dickens (England) are both often credited for creating Christmas classics in the 1800's that still resonate with people today

Washington Irving (1783 - 1859) 
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820
Fifth installment
"Christmas"
"The Stage Coach"
"Christmas Eve"
"Christmas Day"
"Christmas Dinner"
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"

Author Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) "A Christmas Carol" 1843

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Additional famous Christmas story:

"A Visit from St. Nicholas" 1823

Clement Clarke Moore USA

with the quote:

"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night" 

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Believed Christmas origins:

Christmas Tree - Germany 

Advent wreath - Germany 

Electric Christmas Lights - USA 1880

Christmas Cards - England 1843

Befana Christmas Witch - Italy

Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) - Greece (area now Turkey)

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - USA 1939

Yule Winter solstice shortest day of the year 

Birthplace of Jesus, the town of Bethlehem of Judea, about six miles south of Jerusalem  (area now Palestine)

Poinsettia red flowers - México

First documented snowman Netherlands 1380

The first Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration was held in 1904

The first New Year’s Eve Ball lowering celebration atop One Times Square was in 1907

First Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center NYC was erected in 1931, during the Depression-era construction of Rockefeller Center, when workers decorated a smaller 20 foot balsam fir with "strings of cranberries, garlands of paper, and even a few tin cans"

1933, a Rockefeller Center publicist decided to make the tree an annual tradition, and they held the first official lighting ceremony with a 50-foot tree. 

Rockefeller Center skating rink was opened below the tree in the plaza in 1936 and that year they put up two trees for the celebration 

Rockefeller Center has been designated a National Historic Landmark this site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States Of America 1987

Rockefeller Center Christmas tree every year since 2007, lumber milled from the Christmas tree has been given to Habitat for Humanity to help a family build a new home 

The National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C. was lit for the first time by US President Calvin Coolidge Republican on Christmas eve December 24th 1923 

Carnaval de Québec Canada first opened in 1984 which ran from January 29 to February 3

Canarsie Brooklyn Christmas Lights in NYC first beginning in 1963 

Dyker Heights Christmas Lights Brooklyn NY cited to be started by Lucy Spata when she moved to the neighborhood in the 1980s

The Annual Port Jefferson Charles Dickens Festival on Long Island in New York State started in  1996

#MerryChristmas #HappyChristmas #Christmas #ChristmasParty #ChristmasTown  #NY #NewYork #ChristmasVillage #Festival #Holiday #winter #snow #theater #theatre #family #familyevent  #USA #book #books #literature #AmericanLiterature #Christmasevent #ChristmasEve  #art #fun #Yule #Jól #Yuletide #Yuletime #Yulefest #YuleTree #Mistletoe #Wintersolstice #Winter #midwinter #WinterFestival #Saturnalia #Befana #BefanaWitch #BefanaChristmasWitch #Santa #SantaClaus 

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Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max Smartphone 4K night video

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Photos and videos by RyanReporting #RyanReporting 
November 13th 2021

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