Holiday Village ’24 at FPS

December 7, 2024 11:00 am

First Parish of Sudbury is excited to participate in Sudbury’s Annual Holiday Village!
Enjoy hot drinks and baked goods while sharing in the music and history of First Parish!

There is no charge to participate in activities, except for the nominal charge for bell ringing.

BILL RINGING
11:00 am-11:30 am
Ring the historic 1851 George H. Holbrook bell! $1/ring. (Hudson Rd lobby entrance)

MEETINGHOUSE TOUR
11:30 am-12:15 pm
First tour of the iconic 1797 Meetinghouse with professional tour guide Aline Kaplan
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ORGAN DEMO
12:15 pm-12:45 pm
Demonstration of our 1895 Cole & Woodbury pipe organ by our Minister of Music, Debra Morris-Bennett. Try your hand at playing the organ (supervised)
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HOLIDAY SING-ALONG
12:45 pm-1:00 pm
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HOLIDAY MUSIC
1:15 pm- 1:45 pm
Chamber Players of Lincoln-Sudbury Civic Orchestra
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MEETINGHOUSE TOUR 
1:45 pm-2:30 pm
Second tour of the iconic 1797 Meetinghouse with professional tour guide Aline Kaplan
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MORE ON MEETINGHOUSE TOURS
You have driven by the big white church on the hill in Sudbury Center many times, but do you know how important a part it played in the town’s history? Take a tour of the First Parish of Sudbury and learn all about it—inside and out. See the organ and peer up into the steeple. Find out who paid to build it and why. Join us for one of two tours.

About Your Professional Tour Guide: Aline Kaplan
Aline is a published author, a blogger, and a tour guide in Boston. Aline leads architectural and historical walking tours of the city for Boston By Foot, ghost tours for Haunted Boston, and historical bus tours of the city. She lectures on Boston history and has appeared in the Boston Globe, as well as on TV for Chronicle, an award-winning television program that broadcasts stories of New England. She formerly had a career as a high-tech marketing and communications director. Aline writes and edits The Next Phase Blog, a social commentary blog that appears multiple times a week at aknextphase.com.