Everywhere I have lived, Avonlea, Storybrooke, there has always been some manner of Winter Festival. It's something that seems to follow through in most of the worlds I have heard of and is mentioned in many of the books here.
Is there something we can do? I don't mean a party, I'll leave that to someone else to organise. But we all have different winter traditions, cultural beliefs around this time and it would be facinating to learn about everyone elses. We could put together a festival of some kind.