November 9, 2010 --Jasper, IN – Southern Indiana’s Dubois County is pleased to welcome guests to its annual “Olde World Christmas”. Sponsored in part by the Dubois County Visitors Center, this series of traditional olde world events takes place in the towns of Huntingburg, Ferdinand and Jasper on November 12-14, November 20-21 and December 3-5 respectively. Special holiday lodging packages are available at area hotels and Bed & Breakfasts.
The Olde World Christmas experience begins with a stroll into the past at the 25th annual Huntingburg Christmas Stroll November 12-14. Visitors will delight in a holiday home tour, carriage rides and dozens of decorated antique and specialty shops along Huntingburg’s Historic 4th Street Shopping District. A candlelight Christmas concert, strolling carolers and the ever-popular cookie walk round out the wonderful Christmas weekend! Guests are invited to take a step back in time with a visit to the Ferdinand Christkindlmarkt on November 20-21. A festival-like setting where Christmas gifts and wares are sold, this event mimics German customs from the 14th century. The event kicks off with a Friday night appearance by the Christkindl Angel, followed by dinner with music (reservations required for the dinner), seasonal concert by Stillpoint and Sisters of St. Benedict, “Lights on the Grotto” display, live Glockenspiel performances and the well-known markts, featuring lavishly decorated booths filled with Christmas wares, antiques and delicious foods. Visitors will also enjoy Sankt Nikolaus, a marionette theater, puppet shows, a mass with German Hymns and free tours of Monastery Immaculate Conception, home to one of the nation’s largest communities of Benedictine women. A special exhibit is planned in the Monastery Crypt. The colossal, lighted Christmas tree in the center of downtown Jasper welcomes shoppers to the O’Tannenbaum Days celebration December 3-5. Guests will enjoy unique shopping with demonstrations by skilled artists and artisans inside the shops, carolers, visits with Santa in his special house, free carriage rides, church bazaars and a cookie walk. The Dubois County Museum will showcase a Festival of Trees exhibit as well as gingerbread cookie decorating. Other features include tours of St. Joseph Church, an 1880 Romanesque, olde world-style church listed on the National Register of Historic Places, wine tasting at Kapp Winery and an Artist Studio Sale at the Train Depot.
For more information, including a free brochure on specific events and hotel packages, and a complete listing of events and times, go to www.duboiscountychristmas.com or contact the Dubois County Visitors Center at 800-968-4578.
The Dubois County Visitors Center & Tourism Commission promotes the growth and development of the convention, visitor, and tourism industry in the county and is the one community organization empowered to do so. Tourism contributes an estimated $81.1 million annually to the Dubois County economy.