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Article: BOXING DAY TRADITIONS.(Holidays)(Blimey! Some Americans will be celebrating the day after Christmas)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- December 26, 2003
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Byline: Anne Williams The Register-Guard
Brad Willett is no Brit, but he knows a good thing when he sees it.
Boxing Day - the day after Christmas, and a national holiday in Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand - is a smashing tradition, in his opinion, and he has embraced it with elan.
"Boxing Day just seems to be sort of symptomatic of how, in the (English) culture, they don't seem to think, 'Well, Christmas is over now, we've got to get back to work,' ' said Willett, a retired Eugene Public Library assistant and avowed Anglophile.
For Willett and his wife, Boxing Day is "a caloric celebration of Christmas past," a day to ...