Sunday, December 4, 2022

For All Ages

Cost: Free

Location: Front Lawn of the City of Graham Municipal Building (City Hall) • 201 South Main Street, Graham, NC 27253

 

 

Join the City of Graham for the annual Christmas Tree Lighting tradition at City Hall. This special tree that we light is a Fraser Fir, a native evergreen tree that grows on moist, cool slopes on top of the highest of the Appalachian Mountains in the Southeastern United States and can grow to 30 to 50 feet tall. It came to us from Alamance County Cooperative Extension in the fall of 2012. When this tree needed to be removed from their property, the Cooperative Extension reached out to the City of Graham to be its new home. It was too large to dig up ourselves, so we brought in a 90” tree spade on a truck to move it for us. The tree now thrives at City Hall and is a part of our community’s tradition, decorated with over 3,000 lights.

 

 

View the 2020 VIRTUAL Christmas Tree Lighting Celebration on the City of Graham’s YouTube Channel at LIVE Virtual Event Link

 

 

Alamance Arts’ activity with Family Fun

Fireworks!
Food Trucks featuring Dickie-Do’s BBQ, Duck Donuts, & Salvation Coffee Company

Graham High School Advanced Choral Ensemble will join us at the Ceremony

Holiday Shopping at Alamance Arts
Ice Skating on Synthetic Ice at the Downtown Graham’s Ice Skating Rink

Painted Grape will offer face painting

Photo Opportunities with “Captain White and Mrs. White” from the Graham Historical Museum
Tree Lighting Ceremony
Visit Santa Claus from 5:00pm – 6:30pm (Santa will then head over to the ceremony)!

 

 

Available at Alamance Arts & City Hall (back parking lot)
Where to Park Downtown

 

 

Any changes in the schedule and/or cancellations will be posted on the Graham Recreation & Parks Facebook page. Rain Date: Sunday, December 11, 2022

 

 

Follow us on Facebook to stay up to date on additions to the event and any inclement weather updates.

 

Questions? Please call Brandy McCandless, Marketing Supervisor, at (336) 513-5510.

Ceremony Schedule: Begins at 6:30pm

• Mayor Jennifer Talley – Welcome
• Song: “Carol of the Bells” – Graham High School Advanced Choral Ensemble
• Presenting the Key to the City to Grand Marshal
• Song: “Deck the Halls” & “We wish you a Merry Christmas” – Graham High School Advanced Choral Ensemble
• Alamance County Public Libraries presents a Christmas Story for the Children
• Song: TBD – City of Graham Fire & Police Departments
• Lighting of the Tree by Mayor & Santa
• Fireworks