Touch of nostalgia
Museum’s Candlelight Christmas recalls past
Waves of people turned out the weekend before Christmas for the Museum of Appalachia’s annual Candlelight Christmas event, whose aim was to bring nostalgia of Christmases past to visitors.
The event at the museum on Andersonville Highway in Norris was designed to let people “experience the serenity of an Appalachian Christmas,” the museum’s website said.
At the center of Candlelight Christmas were the evening tours of the museum’s pioneer village, in which the rustic cabins were “adorned with old-fashioned Christmas decorations and festively lit for the occasion.”
Activities for the two nights, Friday and Saturday, included live music, wagon rides, storytelling, interactive activities for kids, and demonstrations of blacksmithing, sorghum making, apple butter churning, and more.
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Cheyenne Curington shows handcrafted toys in the Museum of Appalachia’s gift shop to her son Owen Curington, 2, left; and Brooklyn Shelton, 1, during the recent Candlelight Christmas event at the museum in Norris.
