• Paul Mazurek from Trinchero, Hanson Vodka
• Kevin Hickey from Sovereign Brands, McQueen Gin
• Tanya from Worldwide, Barr Hill
• Evan Clough from Brescomb, Gordon's Gin
• Gary Dritschler from Campari America, Wild Turkey rare breed
• Jamie Montesi from William Grant, Hudson Rye
• Erin from Jim Beam, Knob Creek

Decorate Giant Gingerbread Cookies while sipping wine!
What could be better this holiday season?

Pancake Breakfast with Santa. 
Annual Pancake Breakfast with Santa sponsored by Circle Nursery School will take place on Saturday December 9 from 8 – 10:30 am.   We will be serving pancakes, sausages, orange juice, and coffee.  
Tickets will be sold at the door:  $8 adults, $5 children.  
Children will have an opportunity to talk to Santa, so bring your cameras!
This fun event is open to the entire community. at the North Madison Congregational Church, 1271 Durham Rd.   Call Kathy 203-421-0997 for more information. 

Cookies, Hot Cocoa and Holiday Stories with Mrs. Claus at
Madison Beach Hotel, Curio Collection by Hilton,
Sat December 9, at 11AM. Family Friendly

Cookies, Hot Cocoa and Holiday Stories with Mrs. Claus at Madison Beach Hotel, Curio Collection by Hilton, Sat December 9, at 11AM. Family Friendly

Cookies & Story Time with Mrs. Claus at Madison Beach Hotel

• Hot Cocoa & Cookies
• Story Time with RJ Julia
• Photo time with Mrs. Claus
• Cookie Decorating Kit to-go (for the littles)
• Book: Cookies for Santa: 52 kid-friendly Holiday Baking Recipes (1 book included in $35 Parent/Adult & Child ticket package)
• Holiday Pop-Up Book Seller Table - hosted by RJ Julia, an opportunity to purchase other holiday books onsite.

Ring in the holiday season with a family friendly children's princess holiday tea! Taffeta, patent leather mary janes, and fancy hats encouraged, or dress as your favorite princess.

Holiday Tea Party, featuring pastries, tea sandwiches, scones, tea & a hot cocoa beverage station.

Tickets are required for each attending guest. Ticket includes:

• Tea Menu featuring pastries, tea sandwiches, scones and tea & hot cocoa (Full Menu Below)
• Princess Photo Opportunity

EventBrite Fees are additional. Children 3 years old and younger are free.

Cash Bar Available

Seating Arrangements:

Seating is open and not assigned. Tables will be shared, communal-style. Please let us know if you are attending with a group.

PARKING: Complimentary Valet Parking

Questions: Call 203-350-0014

Meet Santa this year and share your wish list with him directly!

Tickets are required for each attending guest. Ticket includes:

• Breakfast
• Meet and Greet with Santa and a Photo Opp
• A special treat bag for each child.

Cash Bar Available featuring Bloody Mary's, Mimosas, Bellini, Beer, Wine, Holiday Cocktail

Seating Arrangements:

Seating is open and reserved by groups. Tables will be shared, communal-style.

PARKING: Complimentary Valet Parking

Questions: Call 203-350-0014

The Madison Historical Society will present its annual Holiday Lantern Tour on Sunday, December 17. This year’s lantern tour will take visitors on a journey to Madison in the 1940s.  As in past years, the scripts, characters, and themes will be new, and visitors will have the opportunity to step back in time as they visit scenes from Madison’s past. The sixty-minute tours will leave every half hour from Lee’s Academy on the town green, beginning at 4:30 pm. The last tour departs at 7 pm.

The 1940s was a tumultuous decade in Madison and around the world, as it was defined by war, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb, and the beginning of the Cold War. At the start of the decade, Americans were slowly recovering from the Great Depression and, in New England, from a devastating hurricane. Despite these challenges, life along Madison’s bucolic shores progressed much as it had in previous decades. The townspeople made an honest living farming, catering to summer tourists, and providing essential services. All of that changed in 1941 when Pearl Harbor was attacked and the US entered the war that had engulfed Europe. 

The tour will feature student re-enactors who will portray Madison men and women telling stories of the 1940s from their unique perspectives. Visitors will learn about A. Victor Knight, a British immigrant who owned a local automobile service station and who was one of the first Madison men to sign up for the newly formed Coast Guard volunteer reserve force. They’ll hear about Helen Foster Snow, an American journalist who reported from China throughout the 1930s and later settled in Madison. Stories of food and fuel rationing, women in the workforce, and Madison’s German-American societies will all be explored.  

Tickets are $20 for adults ($15 for MHS members) and $8 for children ages 5 -17. For tickets and information, visit www.madisonhistory.org or call  203.245.4567. Space is limited. Please register early to secure your spot.

The GreenStage Open Mic Night@The Marketplace is back for one night only, with a holiday-themed show on Friday, December 22, from 6:30-9 p.m. at The Marketplace at Guilford Food Center, 77 Whitfield Street on the Guilford Green.