2-Night Downtown Beverly Holiday Stroll To Include 50+ Vendors, Support Small Businesses

BEVERLY, MA — North Shore residents are encouraged to head to downtown Beverly for two nights of holiday celebrations — with one night centering around the businesses on Cabot Street and the other on the businesses of Rantoul Street and Par Street.

Beverly Main Streets will host the events on Dec. 12 and Dec. 13 from 4 to 8 p.m.

There will be 50+ vendors at pop-up markets on both nights with local businesses offering seasonal promotions, complimentary hot beverages, photo ops with holiday characters and sales.

Visit the Beverly Main Streets site for a virtual event catalog of vendors.

Shoppers can take part in the Shopping Passport program, which grants them entries into a raffle with every purchase made at a participating retailer. The winner will receive a book of coupons to downtown businesses.

Friday attractions include The Dancing Witches of Old Salem Village, carolers from History Alive, and Peanut the therapy dog. There will also be an original winterplay performed by the History Alive company at the First Baptist Church, as well as a free photo booth at The Bower Underground at 248 Cabot Street.

The annual lighting of the Memory Tree in Odell Park will take place on Saturday at 4:30 p.m. before more performances from The Dancing Witches, as well as caroling with local Girl Scouts on the Block patio and a crafting activity and hot cocoa bar inside the Block lounge.

(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. X/Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)