Hendersonville Celebrates Olde Fashioned Christmas

Hendersonville's downtown merchants will recreate an Olde Fashioned Hendersonville Christmas throughout the city's downtown shopping district, which includes Main Street and the avenues.
This annual event will feature shopkeepers and salespersons in Victorian costuming, merchants' open houses with refreshments, complimentary carriage and hay wagon rides, carolers, strolling entertainers, entertainment at the gazebo and a visit from Father Christmas.
The Henderson County Heritage Museum also will be open from 5-9 p.m. Friday.
Downtown Hendersonville Inc. and the Henderson County Travel and Tourism Visitors Center sponsor Olde Fashioned Hendersonville Christmas.
The city of Hendersonville has granted free parking in the public parking areas of Dogwood, Azalea and Maple streets through the day after Christmas.
For additional information, call Lee Henderson-Hill, executive director, Downtown Hendersonville Inc. at 697-2022.
Historic Johnson Farm will hold Christmas at the Farm from noon-5 p.m. Saturday.
Guests can follow a Christmas Tree Trail leading to the 1880s farmhouse. The trees will be decorated by participating schools in the Henderson County Public School system.
All proceeds benefit the nonprofit farm that depends on public support. Funds go toward educational programs, restoration efforts, and to a scholarship fund for deserving high school seniors pursuing higher education in agriculture and natural resources subject areas of interest to the late Vernon and Leander Johnson, who donated their farm to the schoolchildren of the area.
Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for students. Preschoolers are admitted free.
Historic Johnson Farm is at 3346 Haywood Road, Hendersonville.
The property is a National Register of Historic Places farm, decorated for the holiday season. The event will include a tour of the oldest brick home in Henderson County.
There will also be seasonal music, refreshments, bake sale and a visit and photos with Santa.
Dress warmly for wagon ride through the farm and nature trails. Stop by the barn to visit Chelsea and body con dress Lester, the donkeys and their new baby, April; and striped dress the farm's Jacob sheep. Live music will be performed in the Interpretive Center.
Children will have the opportunity to make an ornament to take home.
Call Farm Coordinator Ingrid McNair at 891-6585.
To celebrate the holiday season, the Flat Rock Merchants Association will host its annual Holiday Stroll noon Saturday.
The Village of Flat Rock Merchants Association has more than 25 businesses featuring retail shops, galleries, lodging, restaurants, a movie theater and live entertainment, as well as other service providers.
The corridor of U.S. 225/Greenville Highway, locally nicknamed Little Rainbow Row for the colorful array of shops, passes through the heart of the village and is the centerpiece of the day.
The Merchants Association adopts several Flat Rock families and offers donations of food, gifts and clothing for the parents and tulle wedding dress their school-aged children. The families are selected from students of Flat Rock Middle and Hillandale Elementary,the gifts are then delivered to the families the week before Christmas.
In order to purchase the gifts, the merchants sell hot dogs during the Historic Flat Rock celebration each summer. To augment the profits raised from the hot dog sales, the merchants will host a raffle during the Village Stroll with all proceeds going toward the families Christmas gifts.
Any cash left from shopping is donated to the discretionary funds of those two schools.




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