The AC Phoenix
December 2002
Page 9
The Peak of the Holiday Season is
Salem Christmas at Old Salem
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WINSTON-SALEM, NO - On Saturday, December 21, 2002, from 1:00
to 7:00 p.m., the holiday season at Old Salem will reach its peak when
the 37th annual Salem Christmas is celebrated. Salem Christmas has
been selected as one of the Southeast Tourism Society’s Top 20 Events
for December, as it was in 2001.
Although the holiday season is recognized and interpreted by the cos
tumed guides at Old Salem from November 23 through December 31,
Salem Christmas is a concentrated day of activities that displays the full
gamut of a Moravian -backcountry Christmas celebration as it would
have been lived out in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
It also marks the only day of the year when, for a short spell between
nightfall and 6:30 p.m., the historic buildings that date back to 1769 are
open to the public for candlelight tours.
Included in the exciting day’s events are specially-decorated rooms
representing Christmas and Hanukkah at the Museum of Early Southern
Decorative Arts (MESDA), (open from 9:30 a.m. to last entry at 6:00
p.m.). Traditional music will also be presented several times during the
afternoon in the MESDA Auditorium. MESDA is located at 924 South
Main Street near the south end of the historic district.
Audiovisual programs and a variety of historic interpretations of the
normal day-to-day activities and Christmas decoration (in the simple,
understated methods of the Protestant Moravian religious community)
are presented throughout the day.
Visitor tickets are required for most Salem Christmas events. Visitors
can check at the Cld Salem Visitor Center (Cld Salem Road at Academy
Street) for details, or call about purchasing adyance tickets for the event.
For the full day (limited activities first begin at 9:30 a.m.), adult tickets are
$15 and children ages 5-16 are $8. The new Toy Museum at Cld Salem
will also be open on the 21st.
Information on Cld Salem and Salem Christmas is available by calling
1-888-CLD SALEM (653-7253) or by visiting the Cld Salem web site
(www.oidsalem.org).
To inquire about buying advance tickets for Salem Christmas, visitors
can call the Cld Salem Visitor Center at 336-721-7350 during operating
hours, or write to Sue Miller, Cid Salem Visitor Center, PC Box F Salem
Station, Winston-Salem NC 27108.
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