Christmas in Reedville

Christmas in Reedville festivities will be held in the village December 6. The events are sponsored by the Reedville Fishermen’s Museum, 504 Main Street, and Bethany Methodist Church next door.

Here is the schedule for the holiday season and beyond.

December 6:

3pm: Santa arrives at the museum dock on the classic boat Elva C.

3:15pm: Visit the museum’s model trains with the conductor from “The Polar Express” and Buddy from “Elf.” (Trains run from 11am-4pm)

3:30pm: Cookies and milk with Santa will be served at Bethany Church, with a photo opportunity with Santa, the conductor and Buddy.

5pm: The community’s crab basket tree will be lighted at the museum’s Watermen’s Park, the grassy lot on Main Street just down from Festival Halle (which is at 177 Main Street)

If you want to decorate a basket for the tree, pick up a basket from the museum for $15, take it home, paint your own design in acrylic paint, and return it to the museum by December 1.

December 14:

3pm: Bethany Church will hold its Festival Chorale Christmas Concert.

Museum hours and train schedules through 2025:

Museum: 11am-4pm Thursdays-Saturdays except closed November 14, 15 and 27 and December 25.

Trains: 10am-noon Thursdays (except November 27 and December 25); 11am-4pm Friday and Saturday, November 28 and 29; and Saturdays in December (6, 13, 20 and 27.)

The museum will close for the season December 27, but will sponsor a movie or speaker in January, February and March 2026. Each will start at 6:30pm in the Fairfield Volunteer Fire Department meeting room. The schedule:

January 5:

Movie: “The Sinking of the Fenwick Island.”

February 2:

Book talk and signings: Tom Briggs, “War on the Inland Sea,” and Susan Swift and Heather Cockrell, “The ABCs of Oystering on the Chesapeake Bay.”

March 3:

Book talk and signing: Joseph W. Smith, “Menhaden.”

The museum will reopen April 4, the same day as the Easter in Reedville celebration.

For information: call 804-453-6529 or email office@rfmuseum.org.