CHRISTMAS LIGHTS ?? The Christmas decorations and lights for them
were being installed last week in downtown Raeford by city employees. The
lights will be turned on on Thursday. Thanksgiving Day. This photo shows
Simon Hayden on the truck getting ready to put up one of the decorations
while truck driver Amos McNeill watches.
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People in cities and towns across
North Carolina will be saying
"Merry Christmas" in a variety of
ways during this Christmas season.
From McAdenville's nearly a
half million lights as Christmas
town U.S.A. to the candlelight
tours of Tryon Palace and the
festivities of Asheville's Biltmore
House and Old Salem, it will be a
special time of celebration in the
Tar Heel State.
The activities encompass a my
riad of traditions both old and new
and a spirit of warmth, hospitality
and charm which everyone can
enjoy during this special time of
year.
In Asheville. Biltmore House and
Gardens will celebrate the season
with more than 20 Christmas trees
throughout the house decorated
with thousands of Victorian orna
ments. The annual celebration
there is much like that of the
Christmas Eve when George W.
Vanderbilt opened the house in
1895.
A series of Christmas concerts
will be presented on weekends
during the December 4-31 cele
bration.
North Carolina's Folk Art Center
near Asheville will celebrate No
vember 23-December 31 with holi
day music, storytelling, slide pro
grams and crafts befitting the
season.
At the Thomas Wolfe Memorial
garland greenery, candles and
other traditional Christmas deco
rations will provide a special touch
to the holiday season December
21-31.
In North Carolina's oldest town,
Bath, handmade ornaments will
adorn Christmas trees in the
Palmer-Marsh and Bonner houses
during festivities there December
12-22. Open house will be observed
December 12.
Several madrigal celebrations
will be staged during the season.
At Boone. Applachian State
University will conduct "Ye Olde
Madrigal Christmas Feaste," a
celebration of the 16th century with
music taken from the period of
Henry VIII. It will be offered
December 2-7.
North Carolina State University
in Raleigh presents its third annual
madrigal dinner December 3-8
featuring Elizabethan dishes,
magicians, jugglers and musicians.
Wake Forest University also will
present a madrigal event December
3-4 and 10-11 featuring music by
the Piedmont Chamber Singers.
Chapel Hill's Preservation So
ciety conducts its annual candle
light tour of homes December
1 1-12. 1 lie Huracc Williams House
there will be decorated for the
season December 13-January 9.
Morehead Planetarium on the
University of North Carolina camp
us. presents its annual Christmas
program "Star of Bethlehem" No
vember 1 6- January 10.
Charlotte celebrates the season
with a holiday tour of Fourth Ward
Homes December 3. A series of
Christmas concerts and strolling
carolers will add to the holiday
spirit December 6-23.
In the Gaston County town of
Dallas children 12 and under will
bring their handmade ornaments to
place on the town Christmas tree
December 4 in this traditional
annual celebration.
In historic Edenton a wassail
bowl celebration and Christmas in
the James Iredell House will be
observed December 5. Historic
houses there will be adorned in
18th century decorations. A Christ
mas candlelight tour of private
homes in Edenton will be De
cember 18.
Fayetteville too will be bathed in
candlelight December 5-6 in the
fifth annual tour of old Fayetteville.
Homes and churches dating to the
early 1800's are part of the tour.
"Connemara." home of famed
post Carl Sandburg, will be deco
rated in the Sandburg holiday
tradition December 15-January 6 in
Flat Rock.
The Schiele Museum of Natural
History celebrates December 19
with its annual frontier settlement
hearthside yule and colonial
candlelight service at its pioneer
site. The reenactment includes
preparation for Christmas and a
traditional candlelight procession
through the forest led by a town
crier and pioneer families.
The museum's "Star of Bethle
hem "planetarium presentation
will be featured December 4-5,
1 1-12 and 18-19.
In Greensboro the Civic Ballet
Theatre performs the "Nutcracker
Ballet" December 17-18 at Caro
lina Theater. Greensboro's Green
Hill Art Gallery will feature works
for the season by 90 artists and
craftsmen.
"Fools", a light - hearted play by
Neil Simon, will be presented
December 9-12 and 16-18 by
Hickory Community Theatre as
part of the holiday season festivi
ties.
Also in Hickory the Holiday
House celebrates Christmas around
the world November1 19-20 with
special decorations, crafts and
food.
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phony presents a holiday concert in
Hickory December 12 featuring the
Catawba County Children's
Chorus.
The North Carolina Shakespeare
Festival in High Point will again
offer Charles Dickens' "A Christ
mas Carol" during the Christmas
season. It will run December 15-22
and will include some matinees
along with performances each
evening.
High Point Museum will feature
a Christmas exhibit and a tree
adorned with hand-made orna
ments during open house Decem
ber 2.
The "Twelve Days of Christmas"
are celebrated De?mber 14-25 in
Historic Kenansville with a com
munity Christmas tree lighting,
caroling, holiday readings, con
certs, historic home tours, com
munity supper, a nativity pageant
and other activities.
This year December 3-26 the
Gaston County town of McAden
ville (population 947) again be
comes " Christ mastown, U.S. A."
with nearly a half million lights and
275 decorated trees brightening the
holiday season for more than a
million people who visit the little
town during Christmas season.
New Bern's Tryon Palace ob
serves its candlelight Christmas
tour December 11-12, 14 and 16.
More than 700 candles illuminate
the decorated rooms of the Palace
and five other historic houses in the
complex which was North Caro
lina's first capitol. The aroma of
Christmas cooking, fruits, nuts and
greenery also permeate the sur
roundings during the season.
Christmas attire will bedeck the
complex December 11-23.
In the present capital of Raleigh
a candlelight tour of Historic
Oakwood is scheduled December
11-12. Charles Dickens' "A Christ
mas Carol" will be presented
December 10-12 in Raleigh Memo
rial Auditorium with Ira David
Wood.in the starring role.
The annual Christmas Open
House of the Governor's Mansion
will be observed December 11-12.
The North Carolina Symphony
and the North Carolina School of
the Arts School of Dance will
combine for performance of "Nut
cracker Ballet" December 17-18 in
Raleigh.
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Reidsville's Chinqua-Penn Plan
tation House will be decorated in
the tradition of the Thomas Jeffer
son Penn family with poinsettias
and other Christmas plants as
visitors tour the house November i
30-December 19.
Tarboro celebrates the season
with a Christmas candlelight tour
of several historic homes December
11-12.
At Weaverville just north of
Asheville, the Zebulon Baird Vance
Birthplace will be decorated in the
traditional 1830 period December
1-23. Hot spiced apple cider and <
cookies will be served to visitors to
the state historic site.
Historic Wilmington will be
festively adorned for visitors De
cember 10-23. The warmth and
charm of the old city will be
displayed especially during candle
light tours on December 11-12.
In Winston-Salem's historic
Bethabara Park the 1788 Betha
bara Church and Gemeinhaus will
be the site of two Christmas '
concerts by the Piedmont Chamber
Singers.
At Old Salem the traditional
Christmas Eve lovefeast will be
celebrated at Home Moravian
Church with services at 11 a.m.,
2:30, 5 and 7:30 p.m.
The Museum of Early Southern
Decorative Arts will offer a view of
its early southern interiors deco- <
rated and interpreted in the man
ner of past Christmas traditions
December 11-12.
Winston-Salem's Mozart Club
and members of the Winston
Salem ' Symphony Orchestra will
present a Messiah concert De
cember 5 in Reynolds Auditorium.
Also at Old Salem hospitality
and fellowship will mark the
Christmas season December 2-4
and 9-11 with the annual Moravian j
Candle Tea. For more than half a
century this event has linked the
present with the past through
various phases of candlemaking
and decorations. The tea will be
held in the Brothers House built in
1769.
The Southern Christmas Show at
Charlotte's Merchandise Mart No
vember 13-21 and the Carolina
Christmas Show in Raleigh's Civic ^
Center November 18-21 will feature
exhibits, food, crafts, decorations
and other holiday accoutrements.
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