New Year Tradition in Kentucky

New Year in Kentucky is an exciting time with enormous options of fun and entertainment. The Kentucky Horse Park an educational theme park located in a rural area of Lexington, Kentucky offers a dazzling display of lights during the New Year.

With ten and thousands of dazzling lights it is Kentucky’s age-old light festival that enhance the New Year celebration. A Musical Holiday at Ashland, Lexington also provides great New Year amusement. Musical concerts of folk songs and guitars ring the New Year bells. New Year traditions in Kentucky include spending time with friends and family, exchanging New Year gifts and greetings and making new resolutions. The New Year gift-giving tradition has pagan roots. The Celtic-Teutonic Druids used to present branches of their holy mistletoe plant as auspicious New Year gift.

The Roman New Year gifts were known as 'strenae', derived from the goddess of luck, Strenia. Among the English people gloves, orange stuck clove, flavor wine were popular New Year gifts. When the English had settled in America they immigrated the tradition of gifts and presents at New Year.

Mostly appraised among the various New Year Traditions in Kentucky are the New Year's Resolutions. We decide we're going to lose weight, take nutritious diets, quit smoking, maintain peace and harmony etc. Whatever the New Year traditions may be all these practices originated from the ideas of purification of soul, expulsion of evil spirits and beginning the new days in a fresh manner. But eventually life just seems to get back in the same good old way again.