The year I lived in England, we celebrated Boxing Day. Everyone did. I don’t have much to say about Boxing Day, except that they played a recording in the Unitarian Universalist Church last week to a familiar Christmas tune that included lots of things, like “I wish you a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Kwaanzai etc etc AND Boxing Day.” It was sung in a round so it always came back on a high note to “Boxing Day, Boxing Day, Boxing Day,” which really stuck out and was so funny to me. I suspect most of the church had no idea what Boxing Day was, but since I have read so much English literature and, as I’ve said, lived in England for a year, so that I experienced Boxing Day, I could have told them. It was really when the landed or richer families presented their Christmas presents to the help and to the poor – maybe it’s on Downton Abbey and you all know this anyway. 🙂