Come one, come all to celebrate the Winter Solstice at Midcoast Conservancy’s Hidden Valley Nature Center!
Over the last few months the nights have been getting longer and longer. We settle into the darkness earlier each evening and awaken when the sky is still black. On December 21st the winter solstice marks the longest night of the year and the official start of winter, after which the days will gradually get longer.
Winter Solstice has been celebrated around the world for thousands of years with fires, singing, lantern light, and shared food. This year join us around a community fire at HVNC. We’ll warm our bodies with wassail and sugar baked apples, raise our voices in song, enjoy a solstice story, build peanut butter pine cones to hang from trees for the birds, and create spiral art with bird seed for the wild critters to enjoy.
Join a loved one or friend for a walk, reflecting on the exit of Autumn and the entrance of the colder months of winter, then return to the fire’s warmth as we burn the annual yule log.
Dress warm in colorful wools and fleeces and adorn yourselves in festive scarves and hats to brighten the shortest day of the year. Bring your mother and father, your children and grandchildren. Take the hand of your best friend or neighbor and lead them to this winter solstice celebration. Whatever the weather we will welcome in the winter together!
All are welcome, youth under 16 must be accompanied by an adult.
This is a free event, but registration is requested.