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'Tis the Season Lebanon's Downtown Winter Celebration
Come explore downtown Lebanon and celebrate winter and the holiday season with horse-drawn carriage rides, musical entertainment, crafts, refreshments, a tree-lighting ceremony, and visits with your favorite Frozen characters.
Date: Saturday, December 2, 2023
Location: Colburn Park/Lebanon Mall
It is recommended to be prepared with cash for many of these vendors.
Organization - Activity | Time | Location | Description of Activities | |||
Alice Peck Day - Winterfest Artisan Fair and Craft Crawl | 9 am to 3 pm | Harvest Hill's Dwinell Conference Room, 23 Alice Peck Day Drive, Lebanon, NH | Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital and the Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire are hosting their second annual holiday art and craft fairs - together! Shop local this season at the Winterfest Artisan Fair on Saturday, December 2: Jewelry (necklaces, earrings, bracelets), Holiday Cards, Knitted Socks and Crochet Hats, Ornaments, Tumblers, Kitchen Towels, Pottery, Leatherwork, Gnomes and more! | |||
Lebanon Woman's Club - Holiday Bazaar | 9 am to 4 pm | Marion Carter Home, 1 Campbell St, Lebanon, NH |
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| Celebrate the holidays with music! UVMC students will perform in recitals from 9 am to 4 pm next door at the First Congregational Church. At 10 am, families with young children are invited to a Songs of the Season class to sing, dance and play holiday songs. SNSC Music Performance on bandstand between 2:45 pm and 3:15 pm. Everyone is welcome for an open house at UVMC from 3 pm to 5 pm, and to join us for caroling around the tree in Colburn Park at 5 pm. Find all the details at uvmusic.org/holidays. | |||
| 11 am to 4 pm and 5 pm to 7 pm | 11 Bank St Lebanon, NH |
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DB Lights Carnival | 12 pm to 6 pm | Downtown Lebanon | Food Trucks featuring: Wicked Awesome BBQ and Loaded TOTZ. Prepared Food Vendors: Love at First Bite & Yummy Cupcakes, Atomic Candy, Kernel dabs kettle corn, Munchie-Rollz, and for your 4-legged friends Barkin Bites. Craft Vendors: MerCas Designs & Creations, Face painting booth, Kts ArtWorks, Classy Glass, Rossmiller Crochet, GrammieB's Designs, Mary's Crafts Business & Organization booths: Summit on Juniper, Survivors Paws Animal Rescue, and Au Pair In America - Upper Valley. Manuel Amusements honey bear kiddie ride, FREE RIDES - (sponsored by The Byrne Foundation, Friends of Leb. Rec., and Leb. Rec., Arts & Parks), and assorted pay-to-play carnival games! | |||
Lebanon Recreation, Arts & Parks Department - Santa's Tour | 12 pm to 4 pm | West Lebanon & Lebanon | Hear those sleigh bells ringing? Santa is coming to a neighborhood near you! Come on out to the sidewalk to wave to Santa and receive a special treat from the North Pole. He will be getting a tour of neighborhoods in West Lebanon and Lebanon. | |||
Lebanon Recreation, Arts & Parks Department - Tis the Season | 3 pm to 5 pm | Colburn Park, Lebanon, NH | Horse-Drawn Carriage Rides by Streeter Woods Farm, Musical Entertainment, Food Drive for the LISTEN Food Pantry with the Girl Scouts, Purchase your Christmas Tree/Wreath from the Boy Scouts, Refreshments, Bake Sale with the Lebanon Rec Cheerleaders, Holiday Crafts with Ledyard Charter School, and Visits with your favorite Frozen characters. Double Treble (MLS & HSS Chorus) performance on bandstand at 4 pm. Caroling with UVMC and Double Treble from 5 pm to 5:15 pm. Tree lighting ceremony at 5:15 pm. | |||
Leb. Rec. & DB Lights Display Countdown | 5:15 pm | Colburn Park, Lebanon, NH | The countdown will start at 10 - 9 - 8 etc... and you'll see Colburn Park decked out for the holiday season. DB Lights Opening Night & Holiday Light display premiere sponsors are A Clean Vision & Balagur Associates. Additional Holiday Light sponsors include Au Pair in America, Survivors Paws Animal Rescue, Geokon, and Dutilles Jewelry Design Studio. |