Tonight from 6pm to 9pm downtown Old Greenwich will play host to the 12^th annual First Light Festival.  This is a wonderful event when the stores stay open, holiday carolers are out and you can even get a horse-drawn carriage ride.  Santa (of course) will be out and you will be able to take advantage of face painting, hot chocolate, treats

Tonight from 6pm to 9pm downtown Old Greenwich will play host to the 12^th annual First Light Festival.  This is a wonderful event when the stores stay open, holiday carolers are out and you can even get a horse-drawn carriage ride.  Santa (of course) will be out and you will be able to take advantage of face painting, hot chocolate, treats

Its official, its Christmas time!  The annual tree lighting ceremony starts today at 3:45pm at Town Hall (101 Field Point Road).  There will be cookies, cider, Santa and Mrs. Claus as well as the Greenwich High School Chamber Singers.  The actual tree lighting will be around 4:20pm.

Because I'm convinced that President Bartlett is a real person, I'm a big fan of anything that was named after him. Clearly the Bartlett Arboretum & Gardens was built in dedication to him....

Anyhow, if you have some time, money, creative juice and are willing to travel outside of Greenwich (just one town over, don't worry) then you should

I'm not sure if this is SPAM or not? I'm just desperate for some extra cash to buy the wife lady something nice. There are some pretty desperate companies out there; I keep getting updates from those on my

Here's another event I probably won't make it to, though I thought many of my readers and some of my relatives might enjoy.  I gather there is a real history behind the paper theater.  The write up on Bruce's website talks about how all the stages have mirrored great city locations, such as London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna and

This wonderful event was submitted by a reader of mine:

Thursday, December 2 6:00 pm

"Join us in front of Christ Church Greenwich for a Celebration of Lights, an interfaith ceremony sponsored by the Sholom Center. Together, with Temple Sholom, we will light our Christmas Tree and their Menorah -- a symbolic kick-off to the wonderful

As I mentioned briefly in my blog yesterday, the Reindeer Festival in Greenwich is up and running.  As you can tell by the image, Mercedes-Benz of Greenwich is sponsoring the event. On weekdays from noon to 5:30pm (Sat 9-5:30pm and Sunday 9 - 4pm) come on down to McArdle's Florest and Garden Center (48 Arch Street) to meet Santa and see

Thanks to a viewer, we have another great event for today.  I'll write more about it tomorrow (lasts until Dec 24^th), but if you are interested today there will be Reindeer feeding at McArdle's Florist & Garden Center (48 Arch Street, Greenwich, CT) at 4pm. If you ever come across interesting things I'm not mentioning please feel free to