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It’s going to be a Very Victorian Christmas this year at the Backus-Page House Museum.
Tours of the historic home will be held Dec. 19 and 20, Dec. 27 and 28, and Dec. 30 and 31, from 12 noon to 4 p.m.
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Admission is $5 a person, and mask-wearing is required by those who participate.
Those who take in the tour – called A Very Victorian Christmas – will experience a house dressed in holiday décor, with expanded information about how Christmas was celebrated in the Victorian era. Guests are loaned a tablet to tour the site with a pre-recorded holiday-themed audio.
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Organizers of the West Elgin Festival of Lights are reporting more than 1,600 visitors over the two days of the event at the Rodney Fairgrounds.
Trisha Pearson from the West Lorne Optimist Club said there were about 560 participants on Dec. 4 and almost 1,100 on Dec. 5.
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“The goal of the Festival of Lights committee was to bring some fun and holiday spirit to our community during what has been a challenging year,” Pearson said in an email. “It was very rewarding to see so many people enjoying themselves.”