Communities across the nation join together during the Christmas season at Charles Dickens–inspired events. The fifth annual Dickens of a Christmas in Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, transforms the town into a Victorian English setting, where vendors and entertainers are dressed in period costumes for an old-fashioned Christmas. The city of Roanoke, Virginia, offers a number of attractions, including street performers, seasonal items, a live nativity scene, horse-drawn-carriage rides, and more
From a farmers’ market to craft displays and festive music to scenes from Dickens’s A Christmas Carol performed in various downtown locations, Lafayette, Indiana, has a wonderful event planned for the holidays. And downtown Northport, Alabama, becomes pedestrian-style only as working artisans, people in period costumes, musicians, Father Christmas, bagpipers, horse-drawn-carriage rides, and much more abound. Join one of these celebrations near…