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festive ways to get in the holiday spirit
highlights from december’s pipeline
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Christmas Light Up Spectacular december 4 • augusta common •all day
Downtown Augusta lights up on Saturday, December 4th, with the now annual Christmas Light Up Spectacular. Spearheaded by the Downtown Development Authority (with lots of help from The City of Augusta, the City of North Augusta, the Augusta Chronicle and many private sector partners), the day’s events include the annual Christmas parade, family activities, live entertainment and the official tree lighting ceremony. The 2009 Christmas Fantasy Parade presented by the Miss Augusta Scholarship Pageant Board starts the festivities at 3 pm as it traverses Broad Street. Family events begin in the Augusta Common at 4:30 pm – including s’mores, cooking decorating, time with Santa Claus, the Polar Express, Santa’s Workshop and more. At 6:15 pm, the Common turns into a huge Community Sing and Mayor Deke Copenhaver will officially turn-on the holiday lights. A spectacular fireworks display will immediately follow the tree lighting. www. myaugustadowntown.com
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Holiday Open House december 6 • morris museum •1 pm
Join the Morris Museum of Art for a special open house featuring ornament-making stations, a Music at the Morris family holiday sing-along with some of Augusta’s finest music directors and performers, and refreshments. While you’re there, experience the unique and expressive art of Beverly Buchanan. The music performance begins at 2 pm. Free. themorris.org
Historic Holiday Candlelight Tour
december 5 • starts at 419 seventh street•2 pm to 8 pm Experience the holiday season as it was celebrated in Augusta’s past with this annual tour of five area house museums. Enjoy music, refreshments and holiday decorations. Participating sites include the Boyhood Home of President Woodrow Wilson, Meadow Garden, 1797 Ezekiel Harris House, Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History in Augusta, Georgia and Redcliffe Plantation State Historic Site in Beech Island, South Carolina. For details and tickets, contact Historic Augusta at 706.724.0436. historicaugusta.org
7 Movie at Main: Christmas in Conneticut december 7 • augusta main library • 6:30 pm • free
This classic 1945 holiday film features journalist Elizabeth Lane. one of the country’s most famous food writers. In her columns, she describes herself as a hard working farm woman, taking care of her children and being an excellent cook. But this is all lies. In reality she is an unmarried New Yorker who can’t even boil an egg. The owner of the magazine she works for decide that a heroic sailor will spend his Christmas on “her” farm. Miss Lane knows that her career is over if the truth comes out, but what can she do?
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