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Date: Friday, December 05, 2008 At 06:00:00 PM
Duration: 3 Days
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 Just an idea for a weekend holiday. Close enough to commute back to
and from or just far enough to be a weekend away here at home
 Colonial Holiday Weekend December 5th - 7th 2008 Yorktown Friday Night Christmas Tree Lighting December 5 at 7 pm The Colonial Village of Yorktown ushers in the Holiday season with a Christmas Tree Lighting, featuring the Fifes and Drums of Yorktown Williamsburg Saturday Morning Community Christmas Parade Merchants Square 9 am December 6 Featuring more than 100 entries, including floats and marching bands, the Greater Williamsburg Chamber & Tourism Alliance's Christmas Parade is the perfect way to jumpstart your holiday season! Yorktown Saturday Afternoon Yorktown Christmas Market December 6 from 10 am - 4 pm Join us for Yorktown's 3rd annual Christmas Market. This event features demonstrations, musical entertainment, living history exhibits, roasted chestnuts and hot cider, arts and crafts and much more! Yorktown Evening Lighted Boat Parade December 6 at 7 pm Located on the York River in Yorktown, complete with day-long events and evening entertainment. Sunday Morning and Afternoon Yorktown to Jamestown A Colonial Christmas December 20-January 4, 2009 Jamestown Settlement & Yorktown Victory Center Holiday traditions of 17th- and 18th-century Virginia are recalled through special interpretive programs. At Jamestown Settlement, a film and guided tours compare and contrast English Christmas customs of the period with how the season may have been observed in the difficult early years of the Jamestown colony. At the Yorktown Victory Center, hear accounts of Christmas and winter in military encampments during the American Revolution and glimpse holiday preparations on a 1780s Virginia farm. Museums open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily; closed Christmas and New Year's days. Sunday Evening end with Fireworks Grand Illumination December 7 from 4:45 pm - 7 pm Grand Illumination is Colonial Williamsburg's festive way of marking the beginning of the Holiday season, complete with music and fireworks throughout the Historic Area. |
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