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Strolling into the Holiday Season
Please allow us to set out a few gifts, a flurry of holiday trip ideas
too inviting to pass up. If your visit is blessed with a soft blanket of
Christmas snow, all the better.
Head to riverside villages like Gardiner, Hallowell and Skowhegan
this holiday season. Our inns and B&Bs are dressed for the season,
and weekly events put the quaint shops, restaurants and galleries
in a festive mood. Revelry and good cheer will, without doubt, take
you late into the night, when truly magical things happen.
Christmas in Old Hallowell
Typically celebrated at the end of the first full week of December,
Christmas in Old Hallowell seems to go on for days, with a
spectacular craft fair and a classic Christmas parade that ends
with a display of fireworks over the Kennebec River. A very merry
Christmas indeed.
Strolling in Belgrade
The charming village that sits at the center of the Belgrade Lakes
comes together for its annual stroll, transforming the town
into a picture postcard vision of a New England Christmas.
Photo by: Tom McPherson Photography
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