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Photos: An Old Fashioned Canoe Christmas Celebration
December 9, 2011
It was an old fashioned Christmas celebration Thursday night as friends and neighbors came together with the Canoe Civic Club. The group sang Christmas carols, ate great food and just enjoyed spending time with friends and neighbors from Canoe, Bratt, Walnut Hill and surrounding areas in a celebration reminiscent of community gatherings from days gone by.
Longtime Canoe Civic Club member Caroline Conn (who is sometimes affectionately referred to as the mayor of Canoe, Alabama ) shared her thanks with club members for their friendship, support and labor of love for the club.
Mike Hanks from the First Baptist Church of Bratt led the crowd in Christmas carols as his wife Gayle Hanks played the piano, and a group from the Walnut Hill Mennonite Church treated the crowd to Christmas carols.
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Pictured top: A group from the Walnut Hill Mennonite Church performs Christmas carols Thursday night at the Canoe (Ala.) Civic Club. Pictured inset: Mike Hanks from the First Baptist Church of Bratt led Christmas carols. Pictured below. Caroline Conn (far right), the “mayor of Canoe”, visits with friends and neighbors. NorthEscambia.com photos by Marcella Wilson, click to enlarge.
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3 Responses to “Photos: An Old Fashioned Canoe Christmas Celebration”
Canoe is a special place…I am glad we could be there.
Just told my hubby , sure wish we had known a/b this gathering…I would loved to have had the opportunity to hear the music…and as for Ms. Carolyn….oh how I enjoy her spunk! She’s never afraid to speak her mind…her dry sense of humor is always entertaining!
Good people enjoying a good gathering. This is not a potrait of the good old days, but a vision of that, which is about to come back around. Thats how I feel and see it. As this old boat rides lower in the water, let us not fear, the Lord is at the tiller.