The Cow Palace’s cavernous expanse in Daly City will be bereft of the Great Dickens Christmas Fair this year, but that doesn’t mean the organizers of this treasured Bay Area tradition with a 50-year history have thrown in the towel altogether.
In its stead, there will be a five-week-plus online extravaganza, with new and intriguing content uploaded each locale-themed weekend, highlighted by an excerpt from “A Christmas Carol” read by an appropriately bewigged and costumed “Dickens” himself and culminating in a Christmas Eve reading of the entire classic tale and a raising up of Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus” in the Fezziwigs’ virtual family parlour. And better still — it all comes free to us as a holiday gift at www.dickensfair.com.
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