Holliston November 2016

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1574 Washington Street will be
involved, she explains. The trolley
will run there, and both the
Happy Retriever and Grace Bicycles
will have special activities
taking place.
This year, the trolley is sponsored
by Holliston Animal Hospital,
Lamb and Associates,
The Holliston Reporter, and TD
Bank, says Marrazzo.
For the second year, the Artists
of Holliston Mill, at 24 Water
Street, will open their doors to
Holiday strollers. A number of
small businesses as well as commercial
and fine artists’ studios.
You can find out more about
the Holliston Mill at www. Hollistonmill.com,
or like them on
Facebook under Holliston Mill
Artists.
Back to Holliston’s center,
Fiske’s General Store will have a
meet and greet with an alumnus
of the New England Patriots.
You can come down to get your
autographed photo, and you can
also swing by Fiske’s to meet local
author Ted Reinstein for a book
signing. Children will be able
to build a jingle bracelet, and
in Mary Greendale’s new plant
store at the front of Fiske’s Craft
room, they can “plant a plug” to
start their own succulent houseplant.
At Upper Town Hall, activities
will take place all afternoon.
This year, strollers can board trolleys to take part in fun down in West
Holliston.
For the whole family, beginning
at noon, Aspire Dancing will perform,
followed by Anne Marie’s
Dance Center at 12:30. Want to
belt out a few? Try some karaoke
with Mr. DJ, from 1-2 p.m.,
followed by Magician Eddie
Raymond from 2-3 p.m. Also at
Upper Town Hall will be Holliston
in Bloom, an 8-Arch Bridge
art show and the Hollistonfamous
Holliston Lion’s Chili,
which will be there until it’s gone,
so come in the early afternoon!
Perhaps you want to help support
the stroll itself ? From noon
to 4 p.m., you can take a look
at the beautifully decorated and
donated holiday trees in town
hall. For the cost of a raffle, you
have a chance to win one and instantly
improve your home holiday
display. Don’t forget to hop
next door to the Congregational
Church from 3-4 p.m., when
local bell ringers will ring in joy
for the season.
Kid-Centered Fun
All of the activities are family-friendly,
but for Holliston’s
youngest residents, there will be
face painting at Upper Town Hall
from 1-4 p.m., at Jensen Sheehan
from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m., as well as
cookie decorating at sponsored
by Vesta Real Estate in Upper
Town Hall from 12-3 p.m., then
Mike the Balloon Man (from
3:30-5:30) at the Grapevine,
which will also host and children’s
author Jenn Smith. Deborah
Costine’s Nature Puppets will
perform A Woodland Cinderella at
St. Mary’s from 12-1 p.m. Don’t
forget the Holliston Fire Department’s
hands-on display of fire
apparatus and equipment.
As for the jolly old elf, Santa
will come down from the North
Pole to make an appearance.
From 10 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. he’ll
be available for photos at The
Henry Studio (proceeds help
support K9 Cesh), and then
Holliston Fire Department will
transport him to the parking lot
behind Holliston Public Library
(where there will be activities
from 12-4), where, at 3 p.m.,
Santa will read Twas the Night Before
Christmas.
Don’t forget to stop by the
town green and pet a few alpacas
from Harvard Alpaca Ranch,
and while you’re there, head on
into Jordan Hall, where a number
of businesses will be represented.
Some of the fun stuff planned
by local businesses include dog
training demos by the Happy
Retriever (12-6 p.m.), a doggie
rest stop by the Holliston Animal
Hospital (11 a.m. – 2 pm.), free
coffee and wine tasting at Central
Café, free ear piercing with
a purchase of studs at Holliston
Jewelers, free hot pretzels at the
Holliston Superette, beverage
tasting at the Depot Package
Store (12-4 p.m.), live music at
Jasper Hill Café (12-5 p.m.), free
10-minute massages at Tough
Love Massage (11 a.m. – 4 p.m.),
raffles and giveaways at Holliston
True Value (2-6 p.m.), mosaic
demonstrations from 1-3 p.m. at
Cheryl Cohen Mosaics Art Center,
and reiki demonstrations at
Red Phoenix healing (11 a.m. –
2 p.m.)
Soul Spirit Studio will also
have a holiday spirit tree, where
you can sign up to give a gift to
make a needy child’s holiday
dream come true.
If you’re hungry, don’t forget
the chocolate sampling at
the Candy Cottage (11 a.m. – 6
p.m.) and $5 lunch specials at the
Holliston Grill. 11 a.m. -6 p.m.
The Candy Cottage - Chocolate
Sampling.
You can put a finishing touch
on your stroll at 5 p.m. Listen for
the sound of bagpipes at the top
of Central Street, where the procession
will begin down to Blair
Square, for the treelighting ceremony.
The Holliston Boy Scouts
will be onhand making s’mores,
and the Holliston Girl Scouts will
have a singalong.
As always, there’s something
planned for everyone. Be sure to
come out and join the fun!
Mary’s Indoor Gardens and Plants
Winter might be coming,
but Holliston will be
treated to a garden oasis
at the sunny front corner
of Fiske’s General Store in
the craft room, where Mary
Greendale will open Mary’s
Indoor Gardens & Plants in
November.
“I’m very much a houseplant
person,” says Greendale,
who once owned a
plant store in what is now
the music and bar area of
Jasper Hill Café & Bistro.
“I want people to appreciate
how houseplants, fairy
gardens, terrariums make
being in the house better.
Plant life improves people’s
physical and mental health
and purifies air in the
house,” she says. “Why wait
all winter for summer?”
Greendale’s love of
growing things began as a
child, when she watched her
mother and grandmother
take care of houseplants.
“My mother did a lot of
gardening outside, but the
sun bothers me, so I tend
to channel that indoors,”
she says. “I find plants are
good for my mental health.
Playing with plants – it’s just
about life. It’s about being
happy when they sprout
a new leaf. It’s about getting
excited at having seven
plants blooming all at once
as I did last January. The
room smelled beautiful and
looked beautiful, and I felt
lucky.”
On the day of the Holliston
Holiday Stroll, from
1-3 p.m., Greendale will
offer an activity in which
children can “plant a plug”
of a succulent plant to start
their very own houseplants.
“For little kids (and
grown-ups), growing is exciting.
I’ll show them how
new plants grow on the
petals with no soil,” says
Greendale. She hopes her
new little plant shop will
“get children and adults to
grow gardens indoors.”
My BTFF Author Comes to
The Grapevine on Stroll
Day
Do we all get our own personal
tooth fairy? Jenn Smith, Mom of two
and author of My BTFF –
My Best Tooth Fairy Friend, will be
joining the festivities all the way from
PA at the Holliston Business Association’s
Holiday Stroll by appearing at
the Grapevine for a meet and greet.
Smith was inspired to create My
BTFF – My Best Tooth Fairy Friend by
the five-year-old daughter of her own
two best friends, Terri and Ray, Olivia,
who believed that every child has
his or her own Tooth Fairy with us
from the time we’re born. The three
friends created an interactive Tooth
Fairy experience, that begins with an
illustrated book, for parents all over
the world to be involved in their own
child’s brush with magic.
“We decided to bring this tradition
to our home with our two daughters
by introducing them to their very own
My BTFF. To watch the excitement
and imaginations run wild with this
concept, we knew we needed to introduce
My BTFF to the rest of the
world,” they write on their website
blog at www.mybtff.com.
Come on down to the Grapevine
to see the book and meet the author!