Christmas Huts In The City
by Tami Quigley
Title
Christmas Huts In The City
Artist
Tami Quigley
Medium
Photograph - Photography ~ Digitally Enhanced
Description
“Silver bells, silver bells
It’s Christmastime in the city …”
~composed by Jay Livingston & Ray Evans
~ 1950
Early Christmas shoppers hunt for treasures to place under the Christmas tree at Christmas Huts On Main in historic downtown Bethlehem, Pennsylvania the Saturday before Thanksgiving.
The charming area was transformed into an authentic German Weihnachtsmarkt, or open-air Christmas market. Vendors set up shop in Christmas-themed wooden huts brimming with unique gift ideas along Main Street in what is known as The Christmas City.
These Christmas Huts are located in front of Central Moravian Church, founded in 1742. The buildings to the right are part of the South Campus of Moravian College, my alma mater, also founded in 1742.
Moravian Stars are hung at the top of the huts. The Moravian Star (German: Herrnhuter Stern) is an illuminated Advent, Christmas or Epiphany decoration popular in Germany and in places in America and Europe where there are Moravian congregations. The stars take their English name from the Moravian Church originating in Moravia. In Germany, they are known as Herrnhut stars, named after the Moravian Mother Community in Saxony, Germany, where they were first commercially produced.
On Christmas Eve 1741, in a stable, while a small group of Moravians were singing a hymn with the stanza “Not Jerusalem, Lowly Bethlehem” Count Nicolaus Ludwig Von Zinzendorf christened this little town “Bethlehem.” Since that time Christmas in Bethlehem has been central to the city’s identity. From the first documented decorated Christmas tree in America to the efforts of the Bethlehem Chamber of Commerce to get Bethlehem nicknamed “Christmas City USA” in 1937, to the current time when both sides of the river boast Christmas markets filled with artisan craft, retail and food vendors, Bethlehem is rife with one Christmas celebration after another.
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November 24th, 2019
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Comments (16)
Karen Slagle
Fantastic capture and how much fun this would be, nothing like this happens down here...love it. f/l
Tami Quigley replied:
Thank you so very much Karen! It is fun, maybe you could start something like that there ... and it wouldn't be so cold in Texas either! :)
Tami Quigley
Thanks so very much Nina Prommer for the feature in ART ~ It Is Good For You, much appreciated and Happy Thanksgiving!
Cindy Treger
Tami, great shot - it looks like a wonderful place to visit. Happy Thanksgiving to you also. f/l
Tami Quigley
Thanks so very much John Bailey for the feature in Images That Excite You, greatly appreciate it!
Randy Rosenberger
What a fine piece of artwork and I am happy to announce that this beauty has been chosen for a feature on the homepage of our WFS group. Congratulations for this accomplishment. Well deserved!
Steve Gass
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, nice street shot Tami, l/f.
Tami Quigley replied:
Thanks so very much Steve and yes it is, though we are supposed to hit near 60 degrees tommorrow:)
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