By: centraljersey.com
Pennington Quality Market’s scheduled holiday entertainment includes: PJ’s Balloons’ Christmas Holiday Balloons (Dec. 23 from 2-6 p.m., Dec. 24 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m.); Wayne, the Biggest Elf on Earth and Santa (Dec. 23 from 2-6 p.m., and Dec. 24 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m.); PQM’s Mummertime Band music (Dec. 23 from 2-6 p.m. and Dec. 24 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. For more information, visit www.pqmonline.com.
Farmers market cookbook on sale
Market Fresh Cooking – the local cookbook with the delicious twist – has returned, just in time for the holidays. An ideal gift for the foodie who has everything, Market Fresh Cooking represents a collaboration between several area restaurants, among them Brothers Moon, Emily’s Cafe, and Za.
The many recipes included from these and other Hopewell Valley establishments highlight earth-friendly cooking, an expressive and mouth-watering form of locavore cuisine that features fresh perishables and other healthy ingredients with small carbon footprints.
The book’s seasonal harvest theme is reinforced with photographs by Nina Brenner, a Ringoes resident who spent several months driving gravel roads in Titusville, Hopewell, and Harbourton to document the work performed at small local farms, stands, markets, and restaurants.
The book can be found at The Front Porch or Emily’s Cafe in downtown Pennington. Its cost is $20. All proceeds support the Pennington Farmers Market, which needs money for staff and materials in order to reopen next June.
Christmas crossing
Thousands of attendees will watch as more than 50 reenactors, clad in Continental military dress, row across the Delaware River in three replica Durham boats. The event is a reenactment of George Washington’s 1776 Christmas Day crossing of the Delaware – an event widely considered a turning point in the American Revolution.
The annual memorial reenactment will be held at 1 p.m. Christmas Day (Dec. 25) at Washington Crossing Historic Park, 1112 River Road, Washington Crossing, Pa.
River crossings are contingent upon safe conditions for participants. If weather for the crossing is good and the crossing is held, boats will make their way toward Washington Crossing State Park, on the New Jersey side. If river conditions do not allow for the crossing, visitors can hear speeches and see ceremonies that will commemorate the event on the Pennsylvania side. Speeches and activities for this event are sponsored by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
The village houses, located on the Pennsylvania side of the river (Routes 32 and 532), are not open Christmas. All activity, weather permitting, will occur at the river.
Pennsylvania’s Washington Crossing Historic Park, which administers and organizes the annual Christmas Crossing, suggests visitors arrive before 1 p.m. Christmas day to assure parking and to get a place along the viewing line.