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Slideshows Video Audio Christmas Books, CDs & Videos
Browse our selection of holiday books, videos and CDs available for purchase (opens in a new window).
Colonial Williamsburg has produced numerous CDs, decorating and cookbooks, videos, and photographs of the Christmas season. Enjoy samples of these multimedia presentations and dream of sugarplums, music, toys, and evergreens.
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Christmas in Williamsburg
Images of Christmastime
Williamsburg in Winter
Holiday Decorations
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Colonial holiday celebrated traditional religious Christmas
Interpreters portray Christmas in colonial times
Preparations for holiday decorating begin early
Music fills the air and decorations fill the town during the Christmas season
18th-century food preparation adds to holiday interpretation
Grand Illumination officially ushers in the holiday season
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A Grand EntertainmentSince the first organized Christmas celebration drew visitors to Colonial Williamsburg in 1936, nothing quite matches the beauty, imagination, excitement, pageantry, sights, smells, sounds, and grandeur of the Christmas season in Williamsburg. Newly released, "A Grand Entertainment" brings the magic sounds of Christmas in Williamsburg to life. From the refined notes of classic pieces played on period instruments to the rich voices raised in songs remembered from Christmases long ago, and the frivolity of a tavern balladeer, listeners are carried away to a season of Grand Entertainment in Williamsburg.
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