Holiday tradition adorns a busier Charlottesville Amtrak station
Holiday tradition adorns a busier Charlottesville Amtrak station
Hawes Spencer Nov 28, 2022
Catherine Bolton and Esther Hannon arrange aromatic cedar at the Charlottesville Union Station recently. Its part of an annual tradition of decorating the station that started about 20 years ago.
HAWES SPENCER, THE DAILY PROGRESS.
Nancy Roberts was headed to Pearson, Georgia, to live with her daughter and grandbabies, when a train accident in Indiana caused an abrupt reroute of her journey.
Roberts unplanned layover in Charlottesvilles Amtrak train station did, however, offer a silver lining or at least a green lining. On Monday morning, she got to watch three area garden clubs decorate the station for the winter holidays.
Its very lovely, said Roberts, as at least half a dozen women worked together to install an artificial tree and place real evergreens into practically every open spot of whats officially called Charlottesville Union Station.
This is the happiest group of ladies Ive ever seen, continued Roberts, as the group put up wreaths and tied pieces of pine, fir and magnolia with jute-covered wire at the brick building on West Main Street.
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