Designed by Lit Brothers display designer, Thomas Comerford, and built by German toy firm Christian Hofman expressly for Philadelphia's Lit Brother's department store, the Enchanted Colonial Village is a 3/4 life-size display depicting scenes of workshops in a small colonial hamlet preparing for the holidays.
Monday, November 23
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Please Touch Museum 4231 Avenue of the Republic, Philadelphia, PA
When it was all ready one afternoon last week - the dry-brined turkey a rosy chestnut brown, the Sister Frances' Potatoes (named for one of the last of the famously celibate Shakers), the brothy, purposefully not creamy blue-pumpkin soup (with a sour jolt of preserved lemon), Melissa Hamilton beamed at what she had wrought.
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