Chester Holiday Night December 4th
From a release provided by Cary Hull:
All the Chester townspeople will be involved in the Annual Holiday Night Festival in the town of Chester, held this year on Friday, Dec. 4, from 5 to 8 p.m.
Boy Scouts line the streets with luminaries, Saint Lucia Girls stroll around offering goodies to visitors, local singers lead the annual carol sing-along while the town’s Christmas tree is lighted and the Chester Rotarians help the children hang their decorations. The Chester Garden Club members decorate buildings and lampposts and the Chester Hose Company unveils the 2009 pewter ornament celebrating Chester, this year designed by Chester artist Sosse Baker.
Chester village is small enough to be ideal for walking, but it is big enough to offer a myriad of opportunities for browsing, shopping, wining, dining, and gallery exploring at the Holiday Night Festival. The stores, art and photography galleries, and restaurants throughout the village stay open all evening. Shopping opportunities run the gamut from unique infantwear to outrageous faux fur wraps, handmade watches and beads to wooden lamps, antique furnishings to wall reliefs, books to hats, calendars to tiles, and much much more.
Chester is well-known for its many different galleries, all of which will be open throughout the evening with exclusive holiday shows. In addition, this year more than 20 local artists and designers are setting up a Holiday Shopping Extravaganza with tables of their handmade gift items at the Chester Meeting House for the evening.
Free parking is available at the town’s parking lots at 20 Water Street and Maple Street, both a short walk to the center. Limited on-street parking is available as portions of Main Street will be closed to vehicle traffic.
More information about the Holiday Night Festival is available at www.visit-chester.com and www.chesterct.org or by calling (860) 526-2077.
