Christmas lantern tours and a holiday market open at Historic Lyme Village
A dozen craft vendors fill the National Postal Museum for a weekend market, and candlelit tours run three nights.
Historic Lyme Village, the collection of 19th-century buildings just east of Bellevue, starts its Christmas season Saturday with a holiday market and the first of three lantern tours.
Village administrator Ray Parker said the market fills the National Postal Mark Museum inside the visitor center with about a dozen vendors selling handmade goods, lavender pillows, fine art, candy and honey. Admission is free, 2 to 9 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, this weekend only. Parker said it also introduces visitors to the postal museum and the village gift shop.
Christmas Lantern Tours run 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 26, and Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 27 and 28. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for children, and children 5 and under get in free. The tours recreate an old country Christmas with period sights, smells and food samples.
Details are at Historic Lyme Village. More holiday history: the Wright mansion and the Hayes Train Special. More in Community.