(Bloomberg Opinion) — Christmas as we know it today got its start in the pages of Salmagundi, a short-lived early-1800s precursor to Mad magazine and the Onion that was billed as “The Whim-whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. & Others” but was actually the work of precocious New York literary talent Washington Irving, one of his older brothers and a friend.At least, that’s one theory, and as a New Yorker I’m all for promoting it.The Jan. 25, 1808, issue of the magazine opens with an account of “this season of festivity when the gate of time swings open on …read more
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