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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 thb trills and rumbles of the fifers and drummers can be heard up and down the streets. It is Christmas in Colonial Williamsburg.
Colonial Williamsburg’s Christmas — a season alive with festivities and special events — is perennially popular, perhaps because it is unlike celebrations anywhere else in the country. 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), is adorned in its holiday finery, and visitors find the restored town abustle with holiday concerts, special programs, plays, banquets and more. This is in addition to the regular attractions at the restoration where visitors have more than 40 exhibition buildings, crafts shops and colonial-style mercantile shops to explore.
Although the decorations are in place in the Historic Area by Sunday, Dec. 6, the holiday season opens officially on Sunday, Dec. 13, with the Grand Illumination of the
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