Festivities continue with Coal Cracker Christmas downtown

SHENANDOAH – After Santa’s high-flying arrival into Shenandoah at midday, Christmas festivities continued past nightfall in the borough.

Beginning at 5:30pm, Shenandoah Valley High School students performed a rendition of How The Grinch Stole Christmas.

Afterwards, attendees enjoyed free hot chocolate and cookies inside the Damato Post, and horse-drawn trolley rides through the downtown section of the borough outside.

Those trolley rides, operated by Leiby’s Carriage Service, were sponsored by the Shenandoah One Stop Shop, and the whole event was put on by Downtown Shenandoah, Inc.

Up the street, the Shenandoah Community Ambulance opened their doors to show off one of the work of one of their EMTs, who built a model train display at the station.

The display features local landmarks past and present, including the Shenandoah Rag Co., Ice House, Beaver Brook breaker, and the Brandonville Speedway, along with WNEP-TV’s Skycam 16 flying overhead.

It was such a hit on Black Friday last year that it opened for several nights in December.

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