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2018 Dickens Holiday Festival
This year the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation will pay homage to the holiday spirit and Charles Dickens.
Housed in the birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution — the site of Francis Cabot Lowell’s first manufacturing Mill — the Museum is the perfect backdrop to showcase Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” and "Tea with Mrs. Dickens." In the Museum’s Main Gallery, which once functioned as the last boiler house for the Boston Manufacturing Company, costumed actors will be reading scenes from the classic holiday tale. Additionally Catherine Dickens (as portrayed by actress Marci Diamond) shares stories about her life, Victorian Christmas and culinary traditions, and what it's like to be married to the most famous author in the world.
The holiday merriment continues upstairs in the old engine room of the Boston Manufacturing Company. Now a ballroom, this space will be filled with musical performances by singers/carolers and a fiddler. For your shopping needs, vendors will be hawking holiday wares for seasonal celebrations. There will be soap makers, chocolate, fantastic art, unique jewelry and so much more.