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Love Feast in Old Salem
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LIFE
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12 / 1990 |
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Eloise Paananen
Eloise Paananen is a food and travel writer based in
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The joy of a faith- and family-oriented Christmas seems nearly impossible to find in these days of commercialized glitz. But it does exist in Old Salem, a restored seventeenth-century Moravian village nestle in the heart of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Authentic to the core, Old Salem's gentle dignity is seen in the ninety restored and reconstructed red-brick buildings, streets with no stoplights (just simple reminder bumps), and costumed craftsmen demonstrating work skills of bygone days. Old Salem presents a living history lesson: Visitors can witness how tinsmiths, silversmiths, basket-weavers, shoemakers, dyers, tanners, potters, and cabinetmakers carved out a place in the Piedmont wilderness in which to live in harmony and love.
December visitors will find a very special Christmas experience for the entire family. The aromas of freshly baked cookies and bread, and of powerful but irresistible coffee, tantalize those who have come to enjoy the holiday sights and sounds. The music is unique - brass bands in the streets and harpsichordists, organists, vocal ensembles, and sing-along songs - inside the houses. Moravians founded the first symphony orchestras in colonial America. The repertoire included the works of Haydn, Mozart, and other great European composers, as well as serious compositions by Moravian colonists.
Moravians are members of a very old Protestant group that today claims a worldwide membership of 360,000, most of whom are first- or second-generation Germans. The movement is traced back to Jan Hus, a Czech patriot and preacher who called for church reform and was burned at the stake in 1415 for heresy. His call for a
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