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Second Congregational Church Announces Christmas Eve Services

On Christmas Eve at 3:30 pm, Second Congregational Church of Greenwich (located at 139 East Putnam Avenue in Greenwich) will hold a no rehearsal children’s Christmas Pageant. All children and parents, family and friends visiting are welcome!  If you would like to participate in the pageant, please arrive by 2:30 pm to receive a costume. There will be hot cocoa. Continue Reading →

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Greenwich Historical Society Connects Holidays Past & Present

Harried shoppers may find helpful perspective in knowing how holiday gift giving began and evolved to what is now a more than $9 billion industry. For some local lore and humor: on Christmas Day in 1886, the tavern on the site of the Historical Society’s Artists’ Café in Cos Cob had a bloody brawl that made the news and almost got liquor banned Continue Reading →

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