Jensen Living Historical Farm gives visitors a taste of Christmas in rural Utah, circa 1917. Homemade items take center stage in the celebrations, from traditional holiday cookies to hand-crafted ornaments.

Photograph #1: Popcorn, candles and cranberries adorn a fir in the parlor at Jensen Living Historical Farm.

Photograph #2: In the cooking shack, confectioner's sugar dusts Sockerstruvor, deep-fried Scandinavian cookies.

Photograph #3: Draft horses Jill and Joy, with Larry Miller at the reins, take visitors for a spin around the Ronald V. Jensen Living Historical Farm, which recreates life in rural Utah circa 1917.

Photograph #4: The parents' bedroom doubles as a sewing room during the daytime. With a sunny, east-facing window, it's the lightest room in the farmhouse.

Photograph #5: A wood-burning stove, with turkey casserole and Swedish thimble cookies baking inside, is a good foot-warmer.

Photograph #6: Peahens on a late winter afternoon survey the grounds of the Ronald V. Jensen Living Historical Farm, a few miles south of Logan in Wellsville.

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