THINGS TO DO
Staying close to home
for the holidays By Elizabeth Morse Read
“I’ll Be Home for Christmas”
Last glimmer of Halloween
Bing Crosby’s wartime holiday hit has new meaning in a time of social distancing and stay-at-home safety measures. Many family traditions and large get-togethers just won’t be possible this year, but we can still make the holiday season memorable and meaningful by adapting to and taking advantage of the necessary changes in our daily lives. But there will still be wonderful holiday activities and places to see this month – both new and old – especially on Small Business Saturday, November 28. Meanwhile, don’t forget to turn your clocks back on November 1, to vote on November 3, and to honor our veterans on November 11!
You get one more chance to reserve your drive-by slot to see the Jack-OLantern Spectacular at the Rogers Williams Park Zoo in Providence (rwpzoo.com), then take the kids to Phantoms and Fire at Coggeshall Farm Museum in Bristol on November 1 (coggeshallfarm.org). You’ll be able to wander through the 8-acre corn maze at Escobar Farm in Portsmouth through November 8 (escobarfarm.com) – you can also cut down your own Christmas tree there, too. Or go on lantern-led haunted history tours of Newport on Saturdays with “Ghosts of Newport” (ghostsofnewport. com) or on selected evenings in Plymouth
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with “Plymouth Ghost Tours” (plymouthghosttours.com), all this month.
Celebrate the bounty What better way to create your Thanksgiving dinner than to buy fresh local produce, pies, wines, cranberry relish, and turkeys at your nearest farm, vineyard, or indoor winter markets (semaponline.org, localharvest.org). Check out the year-round farmers market at Stony Creek Farm in Swansea, the new Farm Fresh RI Winter Market in Providence (farmfreshri.org), or the New Bedford Indoor Farmers Market at the First Unitarian Church (coastalfoodshed. org). And check out your local vineyards for
