Olde Time Christmas in Historic Jim Thorpe kicked off three weekends of Yuletide celebration Friday night with a wide variety of activities and fun things to see and do.
The evening's activities officially began with a Christmas Parade down a seasonally-adorned Broadway, decorated with holiday lights on trees, homes, and store fronts along the way.
This year the parade was divided into three sections following Dickens Christmas Carol with a different grand marshal for each section.
The first section was Christmas Past, with local historian Jack Gunser as the grand marshal.
The second section was Christmas Present with Jim Thorpe Fire Chief Bill Diehm as that s