Celebrate the Season at the Battleship! Santa welcomes everyone on board and volunteers stationed throughout the ship will help children and parents understand this floating city.  Type your Christmas wish list on a vintage typewriter using authentic WWII USS NORTH CAROLINA radio message paper. Call the North Pole from the Battleship’s main radio room.  See […]

The Christmas Train & Light Spectacular at the Railroad Museum in downtown Wilmington, NC, features more than 25,000 twinkling lights, trains running through a winter wonderland, model train exhibits, a visit from Santa, and cider and cookies.

The North Carolina Holiday Flotilla Festival in the Park in Wrightsville Beach features inflatable slides and bounce houses, a coloring contest, the Arab Choo Choo, festival food, and more. The event also includes arts and crafts booths, and an antique car show, and is a prelude to the popular NC Holiday Flotilla.

The Christmas Train & Light Spectacular at the Railroad Museum in downtown Wilmington, NC, features more than 25,000 twinkling lights, trains running through a winter wonderland, model train exhibits, a visit from Santa, and cider and cookies.

Join us over two weekends in December for a twinkling arts, crafts and gifts bazaar. Let the kids run around & join in the reindeer games. A Merry Little Christmas Festival is our way of sharing a little of the holiday spirit with our neighbors, families and friends.  The grounds, outbuildings and Manor House of Poplar Grove will be […]

Bring the family to the annual Wilmington Holiday Parade!  See floats and fun in the downtown area.  The parade will be an evening parade and will be televised live on WECT’s Bounce channel. The exact parade start time will be based on Bounce programming schedule to be released early November. Rain Date: The parade will […]

Poplar Grove Plantation in Wilmington, NC, presents A Merry Little Christmas Festival featuring a European Winter Bazaar experience with arts and craft vendors, a bonfire, lawn games, outdoors screenings of classic movies such as The Polar Express, A Christmas Story, and The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. The grounds and barnyard will be decorated with seasonal vignettes and interactive […]

Join us at Wrightsville Beach on January 1st and kick off your New Year by Plungin' for a Purpose! The 8th Annual Wrightsville Plunge benefits Communities In Schools of Cape Fear, which works to help keep kids in school, and on the path to graduation. What a great way to support our region's youth, and have […]