Christmas America. In America, interest in Christmas had been revived in the 1820s by several short stories by Washington Irving which appear in his "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent." and "Old Christmas". Irving's stories depicted harmonious warm-hearted English Christmas festivities he experienced while staying in Aston Hall, Birmingham, England, that had largely been abandoned, and he used the tract "Vindication of Christmas" (1652) of Old English Christmas traditions, that he had transcribed into his journal as a format for his stories. In 1822, Clement Clarke Moore wrote the poem "A Visit From St. Nicholas" (popularly known by its first
Saint Clement High School the way to the State Semi-Finals in the state playoffs, where they lost 40-20 to Cohasset for the right to advance to the state championship. St. Clement finished the season with a 9-3 record. In 2017, it was announced the school was to shut down on June 9, 2017, citing low enrollment (147 students in pre-K, Kindergarten and 6-12 grades, down from 256 in 2012-2013). Saint Clement High School Saint Clement High School was a private, Roman Catholic high school in Medford, Massachusetts. It was located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. Saint Clement High School was established in