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Hometown Holidays 2011

If anyone has an event during the holiday Season and they would like to advertise here, please email information to sdickinson@tristatechamber.com.  Thank you.

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Amenia, NY

Holiday of Lights Celebration

2:30-4:30 p.m.   Amenia Library’s 21st Annual Open House & Santa

SANTA ARRIVES at the Library on the Amenia Fire Engine.  Children visit with Santa, and receive a free book and a free photo.  Wassail, cookies & cakes will be served.  Free raffle tickets will be available for the drawing at Tree Lighting ceremony.

3:30- 4:15 p.m. Amenia Town Hall

Free Youth Dance Demo, Hot Chocolate, Ornament Making.  Also Boy Scouts will be selling wreaths.

4:30-5:30 p.m. Tree Lighting Ceremonies at Fountain Square

Santa will be escorted from the Library to Fountain Square (corner of Rte. 22 & 343).  Events include: Opening Prayer, Music and Holiday Songs and Drawings for the many free raffle prizes donated by area businesses. The Tree Lighting will be at approximately 5:00 p.m.. Free hot chocolate & cookies will be provided by the Amenia Fire Co. Women’s Auxiliary.

Please note that raffle winners must be present at Fountain Square to receive prizes.

Ashley Falls, MA

Hay rides starting at 4p.m. and Tree lighting at 5p.m.

tree lighting in Ashley Falls takes place in the center of Ashley Falls on Route 7A next to the post office

Canaan, CT

November 27th, 2011

Parade of Lights:  Come see the Parade of Lights on November 27th at 5:00 in downtown Canaan.  If you would like to participate in the Parade of Lights, you may contact Steve Kroehle at the Canaan Fire Company (860) 824-7366.

December 1, 2011
Holiday Shopping in Downtown Canaan:   Thursday Night, December 1^st -

Come downtown and enjoy shopping at all the area businesses.  Many businesses will remain open as well as crafters will be set up in the North Canaan Elementary School cafeteria so you may purchase items for the holidays. 

If you are a crafter and would like to participate, please contact Nikki Blass (860) 671-0592. There will be a charge for space and it will be on a first come, first serve basis.  There will be Christmas Caroling and shuttle service throughout downtown. 

Friday, December 9th (Ladies night) and December 16th (Men’s night) - Many businesses will remain open late for customers to do some holiday shopping .

 So come down town and do your Holiday shopping locally!                         

Gift Wrapping by Stepping Stone Performers for a donation. Their studio is located on the corner of Main and Railroad Street. Bring your gifts in and have them wrapped!

A Gift of Canaan - We are offering a drawing to win one of two Gift of Canaan gift baskets - filled with items and gift cards donated from Canaan businesses.  Receive an entry for the drawing every time you make a purchase at a participating business between December 1st  -  December 16th. Winners will be announced on December 17^th.  A Gift Basket will be on display in the window at the Olde School Deli and at C.A Lindell.  All businesses interested in participating should contact Wendy Eichman at (860) 824-4300 or stop in at the Stadium System Store with their "gift" by November 21st.  Each participating business will receive entry cards and a box/bag to put them in.

Sunday, November 27, 2011 - 5:00PM

4th Annual Christmas Festival, Parade of Lights and Holiday Lighting sponsored by the Canaan Chamber of Commerce.  We are inviting you to come with your Fire Trucks, Ambulances, Tractors, and other vehicle of lights to join us in a parade of lights and the annual tree lighting in the Town of North Canaan.

Everyone who wants to be involved in this great celebration of the Holiday is asked to bring your lighted vehicle to the Town Hall parking lot by 4:30 pm to line up for the parade.

We will leave the parking lot, travel down Bragg Street/Pease Street  to Railroad Street and over to Lawrence Field where the lighting of the Towns Holiday Lights will happen. There will be holiday songs with caroling and a visit by Santa Claus. Come join us with the North Canaan Elementary School Band under the Pavilion. Refreshments will be provided.

If you plan to participate, please contact Steve Kroehle of the Canaan Fire Company at (860) 824-7366 or John Lannen (860) 824-5443 ext. 228 to let us plan for your attendance in this great event.

This will be a great way to celebrate the beginning of the holiday season!

Cornwall, CT

Saturday, December 3, 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.: the Christmas Fair of the United Church of Christ in Cornwall, 8 Bolton Hill Road; Crafts by local artists, paintings and silkscreened scarves, greeting cards, children’s gift room, cakes and cookies. Wreaths and sprays may be purchased at the door or ordered in advance from Bobbie Tyson at 860-672-6762. Hot lunch of sandwiches, soup and entries from the chili and apple pie contests will be served.

Falls Village, CT

Sunday, December 4, 11:30 a.m.: The Falls Village-Canaan Historical Society will offer a Holiday Historic House Tour. The tour will begin with a welcome and introduction to the five houses on the tour at P.D. Walsh’s Country Store (107 Main St.) at 11:30 a.m. A self-guided tour begins at noon. The tour coincides with the village’s annual tree lighting ceremony at 4:30 p.m. and visit from Santa Claus later in the day.

Kent, CT

Continuing through December: Skating is offered at the Kent School ice rink on Route 341. A park pass is required. Passes can be purchased at the Park and Recreation office at Town Hall or at the rink during skating times. For more information and scheduling, call 860-927-1003.

Through December 30: Entries in the second annual gingerbread house competition will remain on display until Dec. 30 at Gingerbread Station, 1 Kent Green Blvd. Houses created by professional bakers will be displayed at Kent Kitchen Works, 6 Kent Green Blvd., and will be auctioned off for home display in a tea cup auction; auction tickets can be purchased until the drawing on Dec. 10. And many shops in town will display gingerbread creations of their own.

Lakeville,CT

The White Gallery, 342 Main Street, Lakeville, CT.   860-435-1029 www.thewhitegalleryart.com  Join us for Hometown Holidays and the opening reception for “Artful Season; A Benefit for the Northwest CT Arts Council (NWCTARTS)” Sunday, December 4th, 4 pm – 7 pm.  Refreshments, music and plenty of holiday spirit!   An exceptional exhibition of our own Litchfield County artists including: Victor Leger, John Funt, James Meyer, Alan McCord, Vint Lawrence, Joan Jardine, Mary Close, Robert Kipniss, Joel Schapira, Kathleen DeAngelis, and more.  Show runs through January 27th and a portion of the proceeds from all sales will be donated to NWCTARTS.   Hours:  Friday & Sundays, 11 am – 4 pm,  Saturday 12 pm – 8 pm or by appointment. 

Sunday, December 4 from 3 to 7 p.m.

Lakeville Hose Company, Rte. 44, Main St. Tree Lighting will be at 5p.m, caroling with the Salisbury Band Christmas Brass and Hot Chocolate Society.  Immediately following will be the Parade of Lights. Hot cocoa, cider, coffee, cookies, Santa Claus from 3 to 6 p.m.  Sponsored by the Tri-State Chamber of Commerce and the Lakeville Hose Company.

Trinity Lime Rock will offer the very first Tree Lighting in our neighborhood since anyone can remember... on Saturday, December 10 at 5pm. We will sing Carols, and hear some selections of the HVRHS Wood Quintet, and have some hot chocolate together with our friends from Lime Rock Park. Everyone is welcome. (Location: right in fromt of Trinity Church - 484 Lime Rock Rd - Rte 112 - across the Outfield entrance of the Lime Rock Park).

Millerton, NY

In Progress through the season: Adopt-A-Family to benefit children and adults in need in the Millerton, Amenia and Pine Plains area - send donations to  P.O. Box 880, Millerton, New York 12546. 324 children served in 2009. For more info call Stacey Moore at  518-789-4508.

Friday, November 25 at 2 to 6 p.m.

The tree trimming of Christmas trees on Main Street in Millerton will take place Friday afternoon, November 25th, the day after Thanksgiving.  We are meeting at 2 p.m. at Veteran's Park (across from The Moviehouse), and everyone, children and adults alike, are invited to attend to help string the lights.  Girls and boys from the Scouts, Legion and Firehouse are participating and merchants and others will provide cookies and hot chocolate.

The Parade of Lights starts at 6:00 p.m. at Arnoff’s on Route 22, then comes up Main Street. There's a party at the Firehouse afterwards for everyone and Santa will be there.

Salisbury

Saturday, December 3rd 7:00PM 

On Saturday December 3^rd at 7:00 PM, The Salisbury Association will present their popular annual Victorian Christmas Concert. The performance will be held at the historic Academy Building, 24 Main Street in Salisbury, CT. The concert will feature Judith Dansker- oboe & recorders, Christopher Morringiello- lute and Marcia young- Soprano and Renaissance Harp. They will perform 17^th & 18^th Century Treasures and Music of the Season for lute, harp, reeds & voice.Tickets are $ 20.00 and includes a Victorian Dessert Buffet. Reservations may be made by calling The Salisbury Association: 860-436-0566.

Christopher Morrongiello - lute, is a graduate of the Royal College of Music and earned a PHD at Oxford. In 1996 the Marco Fodella Foundation awarded him a scholarship for studies at the Sculola Civica di Musica of Milan, and in 2006 The Lute Society of America chose him to give the first Patrick Obrien LSA Seminar Lectures. Christopher directs the Bachelor Consort, plays tenor lute in the Venere Lute Quartet and teaches music history at Hofstra University.

Marcia Young -soprano, was cited by the Washington Post for her elegant, dark hued soprano voice and winning mixture of formal restraint and emotional intensity. She is a member of My Lord Chamberlains Consort, Duo Marchand and the medieval trio Trefoil.

In recent seasons Young has appeared with the viol consort Parthenia, the renaissance band Piffaro, and the Folger and Newberry Copnsorts; at the Metropolitan Musuem of Art, The Cloisters and the Yale Center for British Art among many others.                     

 Judith Dansker- oboe & recorders received the Bachelor and Master of Music Degrees from The Juilliard School of Music where she studied with renowned oboist Robert Bloom. The New York Times has said of her playing: “ her lovely solo lines were very skillfully handled”. She has performed widely with many chamber music ensembles including The Galliard Woodwind Quintet, Trio Sonata, The New York Baroque Consort and is currently a member of The Hevreh Ensemble. The group recently returned from a tour to Eastern Europe. Ms. Dansker is on the faculties of the Hotchkiss School, Simons Rock of Bard College and is Professor of Oboe at Hofstra University.

Saturday, December 3 from 8 to 11 a.m.: Salisbury Winter Sports Association’s Ski and Skate Swap. This year’s sale will be at a new location: the Lakeville Hose Company’s new firehouse on Route 41/44. Bring used equipment to sell on Friday, Dec. 2, between 4 and 7 p.m. No equipment will be accepted on Saturday. The sale on Saturday will run from 8 to 11 a.m. Proceeds from the sale will benefit Salisbury Central School’s downhill ski program. Check SWSA’s website at www.jumpfest.org for more details.

Now showing through Saturday, December 3: Festival of Trees The small trees, wreaths and centerpieces have been hand-decorated for the holiday season by area residents, merchants and organizations. New this year will be the addition of gift baskets. Visitors can bid on the individual trees, decorations and gift baskets in a silent auction throughout the festival. Noble Horizons, 17 Cobble Road; open to the public daily, free of charge. This festival raises money to enhance the lives of Noble Horizons residents. For more information, call Joanne Moore at 860-435-9851 ext. 154.

Sharon

Saturday, December 3 at 3 p.m.

Open House before the tree lighting, from 3 to 5 p.m., Visit with Santa Claus! The Jolly Elf will arrive with the help of the Sharon Volunteer Fire Department. There will be cider & cookies for all. Robin Hood Radio WHDD will broadcast live. For information, call 860-364-5041, or go to hotchkisslibrary.org.

The Sharon Historical Society and the Sharon Green Preservation Association will host the Sharon Town Tree Lighting and Carol sing, beginning on the Green at 4:45. Music provided by the Salisbury Brass Band and Hot Chocolate Society. 

Following the tree lighting, all are invited to attend the Sharon Historical Society’s “Holiday Cookie Party” for home made cookies and hot chocolate (a great opportunity to warm up!), ornament making, and a beautifully decorated building. For information, call 860-364-5688.

Sunday, December 4 at 3:30 p.m.

Santa will arrive at 3:30 p.m. at the Wassaic Firehouse, with caroling, music, gifts for children and more. At 5:30 p.m., the festival continues at the town center for the tree lighting, the awarding of the Wassaic Citizen of the Year, and more. For more information, call Nancy Luther at 845-373-9557.

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