The Governor of New Jersey’s Historic Keepsake Village has decreed that a new icon should be added to the New Jersey Historic Wooden Village Collection, expanding the exclusive set of New Jersey collectible icons. Introducing the “Winter and Christmas Eve on the Green in Basking Ridge, New Jersey.
Every year on December 24th at 7 pm on “The Town Green,” residents, families, friends, and guests gather in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, for around 30 minutes to sing Christmas carols, wish good tidings, then move on to their personal family traditions. Church bells begin ringing at about 7 pm. Nine songs are sung, and the caroling ends around 7:35 pm, again with a round of ringing church bells. The “Christmas Eve Sing” is the oldest continuous Christmas Eve sing in New Jersey.
If you live in Bernards Township and have never made the Christmas Eve caroling on the town green, you’re missing a true gift of the holiday season.
Brooks Betz, a Mr. Local History Project member, presented the idea to the board, and they loved it. It seems that a few others also remembered the scene of being on Mindowaskin Pond in their early years. Anyone who has experienced it will remember it for sure. So the board approved this limited edition collectible for the New Jersey Historic Village Collection. At this point, there will only be one production run, so make sure you get yours while you can.
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