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Christmas in the Square
Written on 22 December 2009 by Mark Lewis. Make a comment.Every year our little town throws a holiday celebration called Christmas in the Square. As a youngster, I always found the night to be fun and full of joy; also, I often found good Christmas gift ideas in the local businesses. This year was the first time we have gone to the celebration in many years. It was amazing.
The square was packed, so packed that we never made it onto Main Street. We arrived just in time to see Santa appear with fire engine sirens a blazing. I imagine others around me could not tell the difference between me and a 10-year-old boy. I was taken back to a time of innocence when Santa was both real and scary.
Scary? I was always up early on Christmas. One year my parents thought it would be a good idea to have our stockings in our bedroom in the hope that we would not wake them up so early. Later that night I got out of bed and ran to my mom and dad. “What is it?” they asked. “I don’t want that old man in my bedroom,” I told them. After all, he was a stranger as far as I knew.
We wandered around the square after getting our glimpses of Santa. One of the buildings had a projector that was showing Miracle on 34th St. It was very idyllic.
The organizers Christmas decorating ideas were creative. For instance, when the Greenbush commuter line was reinstituted it was done so with a tunnel going under Hingham Square. As a result, vents were installed in the alleys. The organizers of Christmas in the Square placed cotton balls on top of these large vents. Every time the train passed, the cotton balls would get thrown up into the air and fall back down which created the illusion of snow. Very creative indeed.
Have you ever noticed that when you compare things to your childhood memories, the childhood memories are always so much more grand? I was surprised to find that that did not hold true in this case. I’ll remember this Christmas in the Square for some time to come.
Merry Christmas!
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