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Youth from Outreach for Jesus performed a reenactment of the Nativity Story
The tree lighting ceremony will act as the official start of the City of Hamlet’s Christmas season celebration.
“It was wonderful,” Marchell Adams-David, Hamlet city manager said. “Everything went really well and the temperature was much better than last year.”
During the program, children and teens from King’s Gate Church dramatized musical numbers for attendees and their parents who braved the chilly rain to see their children.
Outreach for Jesus mimed the events around Jesus’ birth and the nativity scene during a reading of the Christmas tale by Councilman Tony Clewis.
Several youths from the church presented the live nativity scene.
Additionally, the crowd gathered around Charles Dickens-era Christmas carolers who led the audience through a medley of traditional Christmas carols.
“We’ve got a full sleigh coming up over the next few weeks,” Adams-David said. “I just hope everyone comes out and enjoys the season.”
Horse drawn carriages pulled children and adults alike up and down Main Street Hamlet throughout the night as they took advantage of the once-a-year festivities.
According to one mother walking with her child, they were headed to the Main Street Cafe’ on Main Street where, “all the action is”, after the tree lighting.
The tree lighting and other festivities in downtown Hamlet on Monday night are just a teaser before Hamlet turns back the clock for their Old Fashioned Christmas which begins on Thursday night at the Hamlet Passenger Depot.
The Old Fashioned Christmas will last from Dec. 3 through Dec. 6 while the city decorates its historical buildings and downtown district.
Following the Old Fashioned Christmas from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., Santa’s scheduled to arrive on a 1953 Farmall Tractor with his Christmas Fiddle at Hamlet Hardware on Dec. 11.
Staff writer Bryan Stewart can be reached at 997-3111 ext. 15 or by e-mail at bstewart@yourdailyjournal.com.
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