Highlights for Children Magazine

holds annual Christmas Open House

By TOM KANE

HONESDALE, PA - It’s a long- standing tradition, but no one at the event was sure just how long it’s been going on. It’s the annual “Highlights for Children” Open House.

And not unlike the mission of the magazine, which was created in 1946, under the premise that children are intelligent and excited when given an option to learn, it opens up its mansion-like headquarters on Church Street with a mime, a puppet show, a musical trio, a piano solo, a harp duo, a storytelling hour, face painting, balloon sculpture and lots of good food and fun for children, their parents and their grandparents, each year on the first Saturday in December.

A book sale, with titles from Boyds Mills Press, part of their “family of companies,” was held in the Grace Episcopal Church hall up the street.

“Our annual open house is just a time for fun for many area families,” said Chris Clark, editor-in-chief of the magazine. “We have millions and millions of readers throughout the country.”