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Show f Woodstock, Vermont is an oasis anytime, but especially at Christmas ly Stcv Llbv WOODSTOCK. Vermont There are those who believe this lovely village of 3.000 people is the most charming in all of New England At Christmas time it is especially so It is admittedly a resort community where for in generations the wealthy have come to play and to settle on a permanent basis. many cases Laurence Rockefeller is a classic example of this pattern. Woodstock Inn, the only Rock resort in the Continental United States east of Wyoming, is totally booked over the holiday season, often many years in advance. For 40 years Woodstock's "Guiding Light has beamed above the town in the form of a lighted star atop Mt. Tom. It began when the Woodstock Electric Company, a predecessor to Central Vermont, honored a request from the ladies' church circles of the community to provide a "guiding light" in an era when Christmas wasnt as merry as it ought to be The star was so successful in 1940 that the Chamber of Commerce raised a permanent tower when the company sold out to Central Vermont. The place has ever since provided Woodstock with its very own Christmas star each holiday season. The streets of Woodstock, particularly lovely once the snow has come, are aglow with four-foo- t Christmas trees attached to parking meters, lighted in by neighboring merchants. Two dozen the community present old fashioned concerts at the 36-fo- bell-ringe- Woodstocks main thoroughfare photographed during the holiday season. Steve Libby is a freelance writer based in West Newfield, Maine. Village (,reen. at hospitals and the homes for the elderly, in churches and sometimes even house to house It's a treasured part of Christmas in a town which clutches its holiday traditions tightly FROSTY WINTER nights are marvelous for , especially from the coy comfort of farmer Forrest Quinn's two horse open sleigh Nostalgia and fun are the orders of the day as Quinn takes visitors through resort managed forests owned by Woodstock Inn. the states first tree farm, and over carnage roads which were new UK) years ago Every Woodstock church has its own individual celebration, with pageants. Christmas exchanges of and worship gifts among children, services and they are all particularly meaningful there Woodstock is a village of bells: Four were made by the foundry begun by Paul Revere and this is believed to be the largest number of Revere bells to be found anywhere in the nation. The "Pentangle Council on Arts," a local group, sponsors Christmas programs in churches, with the public invited CHRISTMAS IS FOR children, and no Woodstock Christmas is complete without gingerbread True to its traditions, the Woodstock Inn's lobby each Christmas season features a six-beight foot a European style town Gingerbread Village fashioned entirely of sweets There are a dozen or so gingerbread houses, the work of the skilled kitchen staff at the Inn. Theres a skating rink with cookie sight-seeing- carol-singin- y See Page H-- Column 1 .The . Salt r Lake v j 21. 19S0 The Woodstock Inn is totally booked over the holiday season, often many years in advance. II II |
