The American Swedish Historical Museum will hold its Lucia and Christmas Market on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 6 and 7, in a ...

The Swedish Santa Lucia Festival is held on December 13 to bring light and hope during the winter solstice. Kicking off the holiday season, St. Lucia’s Day is celebrated in Sweden and other countries ...

The month of December in Lindsborg is full of holiday cheer with traditional Swedish celebrations, a fun parade and more.

First Lutheran Church invites the public to celebrate Christmas the Swedish way. In the Santa Lucia Celebration, women’s a capella choir The Nashville Belles and Swedish-American families will perform ...

Weatherwise, the day could not have been more fitting for the Santa Lucia pageant in Walnut Creek. It was cold, damp and fog enshrouded, with a bleak Bergmanesque sky that greeted the congregants who ...

Swedes know a thing or two about living with light, or, right about now, living with a lack of it. In December, the country’s capital Stockholm experiences around six hours of daylight a day, but in ...

Families celebrated a Scandinavian Christmas tradition in Petaluma on Sunday, observing “Lucia Fest” with pageantry, songs and sm??rg??sbord. St. Lucia Day on Dec. 13 begins the Christmas season in ...

EAST LONGMEADOW — Continuing a longstanding tradition in the Western Massachusetts Swedish community, some 65 people are expected to attend a centuries-old winter solstice celebration this month.

An advert for Sweden’s Åhléns has unleashed a heated online debate after the department store chain unveiled a new campaign featuring a dark-skinned child, whose gender wasn’t obvious to all, dressed ...