Tour d’ Art Gallery Walk on Friday & Saturday

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Walking the streets of Fairhaven this week is to walk around merchants putting up long wreathes and lights and decorations on their shop fronts.  All are getting ready for this Friday evening and the start of the annual Tour d’ Art Gallery Walk.  Artists and crafts persons will be in many shops and galleries to discuss their works and help shoppers make the best buying decisions.  Shops will all be fully stocked.  Tis the season for shopping - and Historic Fairhaven makes it fun. 

Most any shop you first visit will have a two sided flyer with a map and list of participating merchants to help you find what you are looking for.  You can also download it from here and print it ahead of time.  It is in two files - for easy printing on your home computer.  The map side - shown reduced above.  And the list of galleries and shops side. 

But the map is only the beginning.  At 5 pm the lights all get turned on - something we try to coordinate each year and it always results is the lights all being on by 5:30 but is definitely not a staged production.  Many shops will have tasty treats for your enjoyment.  There will be more music this year with live chorus groups.  Don White will turn on the thousands of lights in the large tree behind his Skylarks restaurant on the Cobblestone walkway.  A fun two evenings.  We invite you down.