SANTA/HOLIDAY EXPRESS
Get the kids and bundle them up on November 28th around 5:30 PM. It is time
for the Santa and Holiday express tree lighting in downtown Red Bank. For the
past 8 years for the Arts and Antique district and for about 11 years for the
downtown we have been celebrating Christmas tree lighting on the first Friday
after Thanksgiving. It is the start of the Holiday Christmas season as well as
the kick off for shopping.
I don't know about you but I feel like I just put the Christmas stuff away
and here we go again. The good news is that this night has become a very special
one for children and many of the home grown citizens in town.
It starts with the Santa Express train from Little Silver to Red Bank
complete with Santa, Mrs. Santa, children and dancers. In the hour before
Santa's arrival there is a Christmas program at the Red Bank Railroad Stations
complete with bag pipers, dancers, barber shop quartet and Christmas carols.
The train will leave Little Silver at 6:25 and arrive in Red Bank at 6:30.
Santa and crew will embark and along with bag pipers, dancers and search lights
dancing in the sky will march to Broad Street to join Tim McCloone and the
Holiday Express at 7 PM with a stage show complete with big screen cartoons and
the Holiday Express Band. Santa appears around 7:30 and the town will be light
up around 8:00 PM. This is a great evening for the family.
