For as long as I can remember, City Park down here has gone all-out every winter decking out trees and lining paths with lights and decorations that you can walk or drive through the park to see, and it's colorful and magical and I will never outgrow it, and it used to be called Christmas in the Oaks.

Maybe ten years ago, they added in a giant lit-up menorah and I think something to acknowledge Kwanza, and changed the name to Celebration in the Oaks.

And it's the sort of thing where I want to commend them for the thought--especially because there are people in my family who complain and say they should have kept it all-Christmas, which makes me want to take the other side just because--but it's so clearly a token nod to other religions and celebrations, in what's otherwise still an overwhelmingly Christmasy thing.

What I think is a little better is that although I went to Catholic school for my whole childhood, I was taught a little about Chanukah and Passover, but also Purim, Yom Kippur, and Rosh Ha-Shana. As you point out, there are others, but the schools I went to did seem to be making an effort to do more than just present Chanukah and Passover as "Jewish Christmas and Easter".