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When Christmas was banned in Boston
Yes, Virginia, Christmas was banned in Massachusetts for over two decades by our Puritan forefathers.
The Puritans who settled the Massachusetts colony thought that Christmas "reminded them of the Church of England and the old-world customs, which they were trying to escape," according to the Massachusetts Travel Journal.
http://www.wcvb.com/news/when-christmas-was-banned-in-boston/30349818?absolute=true
Check out the other weird Massachusetts laws at the link, lol.
