Fasnacht Day is an annual Pennsylvania Dutch celebration that falls on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday.

Pancake Day, also known as Shrove Tuesday, is celebrated on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. It's a day of feasting and ...

Single-shaming customs were especially prevalent in Munster with the 'Skellig Lists' mocking, teasing and insulting unmarried ...

One Irish custom of the day was that any holly left over from Christmas should be saved for the fire to make the pancakes. As eating meat was to be banned for Lent, animals were slaughtered for a ...

Folks at Easton Baking Co. in Easton work all day and into the night preparing for the annual Fastnaucht Day celebration.

A series of handmade signs were posted along Route 183 on Monday, cueing motorists with an enticing message: “Homemade ...

Also known as the Day of Ashes, this traditional day of repentance for Christians, and observed by various denominations, ...

Mardi Gras or 'Fat Tuesday' is here, while Ash Wednesday will kick off the start of Lent and 'fish' Fridays. Here are the ...

Bakers arrived ready to make thousands of paczkis (pronounced poonch-kee) in time for Paczki Day, March 4, also known as Fat ...

Shrove Tuesday also known as Pancake Day is an historic and religious event in the UK, but what's the reason we celebrate it?

The season of Lent begins Wednesday, which makes Tuesday “Fat Tuesday” or “Shrove Tuesday.” For more than 100 years, and ...