Harbor Lights Festival 2016

Mon, 12/05/2016 - 10:45am
LISA KRISTOFF and DIANE DORBIN, News Contributor
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Harbor Lights 2016, Santa, Novelty Santa and Mrs. Claus and entourage arrive on the Novelty. DIANE DORBIN/Boothbay Register Harbor Lights 2016, craft fair A craft fair participant. DIANE DORBIN/Boothbay Register Harbor Lights 2016 , craft fair A craft fair participant. DIANE DORBIN/Boothbay Register Harbor Lights 2016, craft fair A craft fair participant. DIANE DORBIN/Boothbay Register Harbor Lights 2016, craft fair A craft fair participant. DIANE DORBIN/Boothbay Register Harbor Lights 2016, craft fair A craft fair participant. DIANE DORBIN/Boothbay Register Harbor Lights 2016, Festival of Trees Spirits are bright. DIANE DORBIN/Boothbay Register Harbor lights 2016 All is calm. DIANE DORBIN/Boothbay Register Harbor Lights 2016, Santa, Novelty Santa and entourage aboard the Novelty. DIANE DORBIN/Boothbay Register Harbor Lights 2016, Novelty The Novelty brings the big guy. DIANE DORBIN/Boothbay Register Harbor Lights 2016 Best seat in the house. DIANE DORBIN/Boothbay Register Harbor Lights Festival, Carols Caroling on the library lawn. DIANE DORBIN/Boothbay Register Harbor Lights, community band And the band plays on. DIANE DORBIN/Boothbay Register Harbor Lights 2016, Memorial Library Book elves. DIANE DORBIN/Boothbay Register Harbor Lights 2016 The Memorial Library elves hand out gift books. DIANE DORBIN/Boothbay Register Harbor Lights 2016 Gingerbread love. DIANE DORBIN/Boothbay Register Harbor Lights 2016 More gingerbread love. DIANE DORBIN/Boothbay Register Harbor Lights 2016 Lobsters and elves. DIANE DORBIN/Boothbay Register Harbor Lights 2016 The Claus family rocks the red carpet. DIANE DORBIN/Boothbay Register Harbor Lights 2016 Santa and his entourage. DIANE DORBIN/Boothbay Register Harbor Lights 2016 Two of Santa’s helpers. DIANE DORBIN/Boothbay Register Harbor Lights 2016 Santa helps Mrs. Claus get off the horse-drawn carriage. DIANE DORBIN/Boothbay Register Harbor Lights 2016 Santa Claus. DIANE DORBIN/Boothbay Register Harbor Lights 2016 Santa’s helpers. DIANE DORBIN/Boothbay Register Harbor Lights 2016 Three wise men. DIANE DORBIN/Boothbay Register Harbor Lights 2016 Santa lights the Memorial Library tree. DIANE DORBIN/Boothbay Register Harbor Lights 2016 Two horses, of course. DIANE DORBIN/Boothba Register Harbor Lights 2016 A cute caroler. DIANE DORBIN/Boothbay Register The lighted boat parade. Courtesy of Michael Leonard The lighted boat parade. Courtesy of Michael Leonard The lighted boat parade. Courtesy of Michael Leonard The lighted boat parade. Courtesy of Michael Leonard The lighted boat parade. Courtesy of Michael Leonard The lighted boat parade. Courtesy of Michael Leonard The lighted boat parade. Courtesy of Michael Leonard The lighted boat parade. Courtesy of Michael Leonard The Memorial Library. Courtesy of Michael Leonard A window wreath. Courtesy of Michael Leonard The Tugboat Inn. Courtesy of Michael Leonard The Boothbay Common. Courtesy of Michael Leonard The Santa shot. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register The Clauses’ North Pole entourage makes its way up the Town Landing ramp ... It must be Harbor Lights in Boothbay Harbor! LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register A bespectacled Mrs. Claus waves to the crowd. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register Spreading that elfin magic and good cheer! LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register How friendly and a tad wild they are — those characters from “up north!” LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register Our beloved Mrs. C. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register Old St. Nick and the Mrs. Dec. 3, — Harbor Lights #31! LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register A little girl watches the North Pole characters with delight from her father’s shoulder. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register Let the greeting begin! Mr. and Mrs. Claus begin meeting as many of the children as they can as they make their way to a horse-drawn carriage waiting for them on Commercial Street. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register The elves and Gingerbread Man mucking about in the Whale Park. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Harbor To the wagon! LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register On what other day could children find themselves conversing with a .... Christmas tree?! LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register Cookies, anyone? LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register The Clauses and friends parade through town on their way to the Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library where kids get to share their secret wishes for Christmas. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register

    Saturday, Dec. 3 marked the 31st annual Harbor Lights Festival in Boothbay Harbor.

    A treat for young and old, this festival embodies the spirit and magic of the holiday season with a craft fair, wagon rides, readings and crafts, open houses, and a visit by Santa and Mrs. Claus with their North Pole entourage of elves, a Christmas moose, a Christmas lobster or two, Christmas tree ... and often some surprise guests ... arriving with a Coast Guard escort to the Town Landing.

    Children followed Santa and Company to the Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library where they waited patiently to tell Old Saint Nick what they are wishing for most under their Christmas tree this year and a visit with Mrs. Claus! 

    The festival included the tree-lighting on the Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library lawn, caroling with the Boothbay Community Band, a trek to a live nativity at Our Lady Queen of Peace escorted by Three Wise Men and the festival’s big finish: a dazzling lighted boat parade.

    How the festival began

    The region’s holiday celebration began as The Scottish Christmas Walk with bagpipers playing highland marches and slow airs filling the streets of the downtown. It was a three-day event, Dec. 6-8, 1985, sponsored by the Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce — still is. There was a parade, Christmas craft fair at the YMCA, an open house at the Boothbay Region Historical Society displaying china, furniture and other wares previously owned by many of the original Scot settlers of the region. Local merchants and restaurants offered special promotions and discounts and lodging owners were encouraged to offer weekend packages.

    Santa was brought to the Town Landing aboard one of Eliot Winslow’s tugs. After disembarking, Santa was greeted by Town Crier Brud Pierce and a group of pipers to a Boothbay Harbor fire truck to lead the Christmas parade that culminated in a piping event at the high school fields on Townsend Avenue.

    A 20-foot Christmas tree was donated by Irving and Jane Conley and decorated to reflect coastal and Scot themes — red lights and ribbons with large scallop shells created by Bill Harris of the Boothbay Register. There was a tree-lighting with Santa accompanied by the Carousel Theatre Singers to lead the caroling!

    For more of the history of this beloved festival, which now includes the enchanting Festival of Trees, visit www.boothbayregister.com’s Fall Into the Holidays page! This page will tell the story of the 2016 Harbor Lights Festival in photos ... here come the memories!

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