Boyds Untethered #42









Brush off your bowlers and prepare your petticoats as Galveston Historical Foundation presents the 48th annual Dickens on The Strand. 

Held the first weekend in December, the annual festival is a holiday tradition with great family programming, live entertainment, special events and more. 

Dickens on The Strand, based on 19th-century Victorian London, features parades, entertainment on four stages, new additions like Tiny Tim’s Play Land, Shopkeeper Skills Village, and roaming characters throughout the festival. 

The Strand and Ship Mechanics Streets and all the side streets between the two are turned into pedestrian mall for the 100,000 or so who attend the event over 3 days.

Costumed vendors peddle their wares from street stalls and rolling carts laden with holiday food and drink, Victorian-inspired crafts, clothing, jewelry, holiday decorations, and gift items.

Many who attend will wear Victorian, Steam Punk and because it’s Galveston even Pirate costumes… giving the whole event even more of a participatory flare.

There are a number of parades throughout the day and evening. Here are a few pixtures from the Queens Parade.

I particularly enjoyed the bagpipers.., who were regularly heard playing “Deep in the Heart of Texas”.

We spent the whole day at easily the most fun event that we have attended since moving to Galveston.

 

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