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Update: May 15, 2022
We’ve just begun planning for our Holiday Festival and Main Street Stroll in December 2022. If you have an interest in helping, please email our event chair person at holidayfestival@eastonlions.org or Michelle McGee at info@eastonlions.org. If you’d like to be a crafter or vendor at our event, please complete the form below.
Thanks you for your early support!
Thank you for your interest in renting space at the Easton Holiday Festival Marketplace in the historic Oakes Ames Memorial Hall. The 2022 craft fair will be held on Saturday, December 3rd from 9:00 am-5:00 pm and is limited to no more than 25 crafters and marketplace vendors. Vendors who create handmade crafts, homemade goods, and other products that would make great holiday gifts will be reviewed to ensure quality products in a variety of categories. Notifications will be sent by November 1st. If you are selected as a vendor, we will follow-up with payment instructions and details about your space. (This form will take about 7-10 minutes to complete.)
Please support all our sponsors by selecting their logo
Ken McAuliffe, McAuliffe Electric
Maguire’s Pub & Grill
Mike Looney, Looney Transportation
Pop’s Fine Wines
Thermal Fluids, Inc.
Old Colony YMCA of Easton
Boy Scout Troop 193
Stonehill College
Garden Club
C.E.R.T.
Dept. of Public Works
Fire Department
Police officers
Select Board
Oliver Ames High School
Leos Club
Boys Soccer
Cross Country
Make a Wish Club
Marching Band & Color Guard
Football
Swim team
Wrestling team
Dec 2020 – Santa House opening with Avery Lee Williams talking festival history with Lynne Payne and Gregg Murphy
Since 1986, at the Rockery and Oakes Ames Memorial Hall in North Easton, Massachusetts, Easton townfolks celebrate the holiday season with the annual Easton Holiday Festival coordinated by the Easton Lions Club and supported by many local businesses and families in Easton. This event happens the first full weekend in December each year with the Easton Lions cooking up burgers, dogs and fried dough; bouncy houses, train and hay rides, carnival games for the kids. It also highlights local artisans in a special marketplace inside the historic Oakes Ames Memorial Hall, free musical entertainment on the Rockery, the walk of the reindogs in the holiday parade down main street to the festivities area, and visits by Santa throughout the events.
In 1988 the Easton Businessman’s Association passed along the baton for the Festival to the Easton Lion’s Club. The Lions took up the task and committed the resources to take over the management of the Festival of Lights, a Holiday-season event. We jumped in with our usual determination, growing it into the festive event it is today.
The Lions manage the Holiday Festival as a town Holiday party put on for our townspeople and encourage all to participate in planning the events. We work to make changes from time-to-time, and hope to keep the event interesting and appealing to people of all ages.
Significant changes have taken place over the years, most notably was in the mid-2000’s when the Rockery was restored to its 1882 appearance (necessitating the removal of its trees). This moved the lighting in a new direction, with music-syncopated light-and-sound show. In 2018, we moved the festival to one-day event on the first Saturday in December.
In 2020, due to Covid, we had to cancel our usual events, and instead updated the holiday displays at the Rockery and Oakes Ames Memorial Hall for all to enjoy. This included a mailbox for letters to Santa and a brand new Santa House that will be used by our guest in 2021. The house was made possible by a generous donation from the Avery Lee Williams Family Trust. Avery was a Lion member for over 40 years and passed away in 2021.
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