Honesdale for the holidays

HONESDALE, PA — Historic Honesdale offers up their famous holiday hospitality on Friday, November 26 and Saturday, November 27 during the annual Honesdale for the Holidays celebration.

Honesdale’s Main Street is lined with stores and restaurants for holiday shoppers to enjoy. As shoppers bustle up and down the streets, the Fred Miller Pavilion will be the center for live Christmas music from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Honesdale’s Annual Santa Parade will march through town on Friday, November 26, beginning at 6:00 p.m. at Main and Fourth Streets and proceeding up Main Street and down Tenth Street to Central Park. Once in Central Park, activities include the lighting of the Star on Irving Cliff, the lighting of the Christmas tree in the park and Christmas caroling.

Old-fashioned, horse-drawn carriage rides will depart from the corner of Main and Seventh Streets from 12:00 noon to 3:00 p.m. on Saturday. These relaxing carriage rides will tour Honesdale.

The Stourbridge Model Railroad Club will host an “Open House” on Saturday in the Grace Episcopal Parish Hall at 827 Church Street from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The Model Railroad Club has created a large HO gauge railroad display that depicts the mythical town of “Wayne.” In addition, the new exhibit hall at the Wayne County Visitor Center in downtown Honesdale features a display depicting the movement of coal on the Gravity Railroad and Delaware Hudson Canal System. The Wayne County Historical Museum, on Main Street, features a full-scale replica of the famous Stourbridge Lion, the first locomotive to run on a track in America.

For more information call 570/253-5492 or visit honesdale.com.