Welcoming a brand new Day
A Day in December set to debut Dec. 4
By Doron Tyler Antrim
Hudson-Catskill Newspapers
CATSKILL — A big holiday festival is set for next week on Main Street in the village of Catskill.
The first-ever “A Day in December” is scheduled for Dec. 4 from noon until 5 p.m. and will include horse and sleigh rides, photos with Santa, a cookie contest, musical entertainment, vendors and more.
“So many people have offered things and given things,” said Eileen Dees, of The Garden Gate in Catskill, who led the effort to organize the event. “It wasn’t difficult to get people to do things.”
Throughout the five-hour festival, horse and sleigh rides — courtesy of Hensonville resident David Sherman — will be traveling from the corner of Main Street and Church Street, down Main to Bridge Street and then onto Water Street to the intersection with Church Street.
The ride will be free of charge.
Meanwhile, at the corner of Church and Main Streets, Boy Scouts will be selling fresh pine wreaths. The Brownies will be having a bake sale at Community Theater to benefit for the Toys for Tots program.
Photos will Santa will be available from noon until 5 p.m. at 418 Main Street.
Also happening throughout the day will be face painting by artist Cynthia Mullvaney at Community Theater and an ice sculpture display at Leggio Park.
Community Theater will also be hosting musical group The Zucchini Brothers and a screening of the Christmas-classic “The Grinch” at noon.
Sketch artist Stanley Maltzman will be at Swamp Angel Antiques between noon and 5 p.m.
In addition, Sawyer Chevrolet will be giving away bicycles every half hour throughout the day at the Catskill Village Police garage and raffling off a $1,000 savings bond at 5 p.m. Sleds will also be given away.
The Catskill High School girls chorus, known as the Trebelaires, will be caroling from noon until 1 p.m.
At 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Joe and Eileen Capone will be reading The Night Before Christmas at 388 Main Street. Dance company Petite Productions will be performing demos at that address at 2 p.m.
Also beginning at 2 p.m. will be The Daily Mail’s cookie contest. In order to qualify for the contest, cookies must be dropped off at The Daily Mail office, located at 414 Main Street, by 2 p.m. on Dec. 3. Please include a 3x5 index card with the following information: Name, address, phone number and complete recipe. Submission must be in a minimum quantity of one dozen. Each person is allowed up to three submissions.
Judges for the contest will include state Assemblyman Pete Lopez, R-Schoharie; Jim Riley of Mid-Hudson Cable and Kres Bjornsson of the Bank of Greene County.
Between noon and 2 p.m., Van Gorden & Co. will be hosting a book signing of Historic Places in Greene County, published by the Greene County Historical Society.
Stilt walker Corey Cox will be performing between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. and Imagine That! is hosting ornament painting starting at 1 p.m. Big Brother/Big Sisters will also be sponsoring crafts for children.
Craft vendors will be occupying some of Main Street’s vacant storefronts, Dees said.
“A Day in December” will be Catskill’s first village-wide holiday celebration.
The first-ever “A Day in December” is scheduled for Dec. 4 from noon until 5 p.m. and will include horse and sleigh rides, photos with Santa, a cookie contest, musical entertainment, vendors and more.
“So many people have offered things and given things,” said Eileen Dees, of The Garden Gate in Catskill, who led the effort to organize the event. “It wasn’t difficult to get people to do things.”
Throughout the five-hour festival, horse and sleigh rides — courtesy of Hensonville resident David Sherman — will be traveling from the corner of Main Street and Church Street, down Main to Bridge Street and then onto Water Street to the intersection with Church Street.
The ride will be free of charge.
Meanwhile, at the corner of Church and Main Streets, Boy Scouts will be selling fresh pine wreaths. The Brownies will be having a bake sale at Community Theater to benefit for the Toys for Tots program.
Photos will Santa will be available from noon until 5 p.m. at 418 Main Street.
Also happening throughout the day will be face painting by artist Cynthia Mullvaney at Community Theater and an ice sculpture display at Leggio Park.
Community Theater will also be hosting musical group The Zucchini Brothers and a screening of the Christmas-classic “The Grinch” at noon.
Sketch artist Stanley Maltzman will be at Swamp Angel Antiques between noon and 5 p.m.
In addition, Sawyer Chevrolet will be giving away bicycles every half hour throughout the day at the Catskill Village Police garage and raffling off a $1,000 savings bond at 5 p.m. Sleds will also be given away.
The Catskill High School girls chorus, known as the Trebelaires, will be caroling from noon until 1 p.m.
At 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Joe and Eileen Capone will be reading The Night Before Christmas at 388 Main Street. Dance company Petite Productions will be performing demos at that address at 2 p.m.
Also beginning at 2 p.m. will be The Daily Mail’s cookie contest. In order to qualify for the contest, cookies must be dropped off at The Daily Mail office, located at 414 Main Street, by 2 p.m. on Dec. 3. Please include a 3x5 index card with the following information: Name, address, phone number and complete recipe. Submission must be in a minimum quantity of one dozen. Each person is allowed up to three submissions.
Judges for the contest will include state Assemblyman Pete Lopez, R-Schoharie; Jim Riley of Mid-Hudson Cable and Kres Bjornsson of the Bank of Greene County.
Between noon and 2 p.m., Van Gorden & Co. will be hosting a book signing of Historic Places in Greene County, published by the Greene County Historical Society.
Stilt walker Corey Cox will be performing between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. and Imagine That! is hosting ornament painting starting at 1 p.m. Big Brother/Big Sisters will also be sponsoring crafts for children.
Craft vendors will be occupying some of Main Street’s vacant storefronts, Dees said.
“A Day in December” will be Catskill’s first village-wide holiday celebration.
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