Southern Indiana’s Dubois County is pleased to welcome guests to its annual “Olde World Christmas”. Sponsored in part by the Dubois County Visitors Center, this series of traditional olde world events takes place in the towns of Huntingburg, Ferdinand, and Jasper on November 9-11, November 16-18, and November 30 - December 2 respectively. Special holiday lodging packages are available at area hotels and B&Bs.
The Olde World Christmas experience begins with a stroll into the past at the 22nd annual Huntingburg Christmas Stroll November 9-11. Visitors will delight in a Victorian dinner theatre, “Holly & Ivy” home tour, storytelling, Christmas wagon rides, and dozens of decorated antique and specialty shops along Huntingburg’s 4th Street Shopping District. Breakfast & Lunch with Santa, lively carolers, and the ever-popular cookie walk round out the wonderful Christmas weekend!
Guests are invited to take a step back in time with a visit to the Ferdinand Christkindlmarkt on November 16 -18. A festival-like setting where Christmas gifts and wares are sold, this event mimics German customs from the 14th century. To celebrate Christkindlmarkt’s ten year anniversary, there will be a special Friday night appearance by the Christkindl Angel, followed by dinner with music. Highlights include “A Christmas Survival Guide” performance by Actors Community Theatre, seasonal concert by Stillpoint and Sisters of St. Benedict, “Lights on the Grotto” display, live Glockenspiel performances and the well-known markts, featuring lavishly decorated booths filled with Christmas wares, antiques, delicious foods, and live entertainment. Visitors will also enjoy visits with Sankt Nikolaus, a mass with German Hymns, and free tours of Monastery Immaculate Conception, home to one of the nation’s largest communities of Benedictine women.
The colossal, lighted Christmas tree in the center of downtown Jasper welcomes shoppers to the Jasper O’Tannenbaum Days celebration November 30 - December 2. Guests will enjoy unique shopping, carolers, visits with Santa, free carriage rides, two church bazaars and cookie walks, and the “Lights of Hope” holiday home tour benefiting the American Cancer Society. Special performances include the Celebration Singers and “A Christmas Survival Guide”, both at the Dubois County Museum. Features include gingerbread cookie decorating, demonstrations by skilled artists and artisans inside the shops, special events at the Train Depot and tours of St. Joseph Church, an 1880 Romanesque, olde world-style church listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Let the Christmas enchantment continue beyond the three weekends of events with the Kathy Mattea Christmas Show Saturday, December 8 at the Jasper Arts Center.
For more information, including a free brochure on specific events and hotel packages, and a complete list of events and times, please go to www.visitduboiscounty.com or contact the Dubois County Visitors Center at 800-968-4578.
The Dubois County Tourism Commission was established in 1992 by a Dubois County ordinance with the purpose of promoting the growth and development of the convention, visitor, and tourism industry in the county and is the one community organization empowered to do so. The Commission established the operation of the Visitors Center in January 2006. Commission members meet regularly at 3:30 p.m. on the first Monday of each month at the Visitors Center located at 2704 Newton Street in Jasper inside the Dubois County Museum building. These meetings are open to the public. Office hours are from 8:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.