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THE pungent aroma of woodburning
fires floats through
the chilly air.
Doorways are hung with festive boxwood wreaths festooned with fresh fruit.
Candles twinkle in hundreds of window panes.
Bands of carolers sing joyous holiday songs, and the trills and rumbles of the fifers and drummers can be heard up and down the streets.
It is Christmas at Colonial‘Williamsburg.
It’s a season alive with festivities and special events in the 173-acre Historic Area, a restoration of the capital of the vast 18th century Virginia Colony (which at one time encompassed eight of our present states). The area is adorned in in holiday finery, and visitors find the restored town abustle with holiday concerts, special programs, plays and banquets.
Although decorations are in place in the Historic Area by Dec. 6, the
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