Holiday Events This Weekend in Belmont

Red Riding Hood the opera, Homer House Holiday, caroling in the Center and gifts at the gallery.

Little Red Riding Hood at First Church Once Upon a Time ... Music and Stories featuring Seymour Barab's One-Act Children's Opera Little Red Riding Hood. The performances are on Sunday, Dec. 16, at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. at First Church in Belmont, Unitarian Universalist, 404 Concord Ave. Powers Music School is pleased to present this year's program, Little Red Riding Hood, written by esteemed composer Seymour Barab. Join us on this comical musical adventure, as Little Red Riding Hood journeys through the forest and encounters a hungry Wolf who has a strong distaste for sweets but a healthy appetite for other things. Don't worry! A happy ending is in store in this heartwarming musical tale! Presented with permission by Boosey & Hawkes, Inc. …

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Homer House Holiday Dec. 15,16

Belmont Woman's Club's William Flagg Homer House will open its doors for singing, bake and green sale and merriment.

The Belmont Woman’s Club invites residents and visitors to town to celebrate the holiday season at the Winslow Homer Holiday House, Dec. 15 and 16, at the William Flagg Homer House, 661 Pleasant St. The 1853 Homer House, located at 661 Pleasant St. across from Town Hall, will welcome the public for music, merrymaking, and mansion walks. The dining room was set out with the house's best china and stockings will be hung on the mantle above the fireplace.  This year, a Winslow Homer Room will feature an exhibit of the one-time Belmont resident and great American artist's early illustrations of early Victorian winter pastimes such as skating, horse-drawn sleighing and sledding.   Belmont Girl Scout troops will sing carols on Saturday and …

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Travel Back in Time at the William Flagg Homer House

Travel Back in Time with your Patch Passport to explore the history and roots of the community.

It's one of the most famous houses in the "Town of Homes." Built during the first great expansion of residential properties in the 1850s, the house on Pleasant Street – one of the finest examples of early residential Victorian design – was a summer house for a rich Boston merchant. It was where the owner hosted his wealthy friends before, during and after the Civil War and was used as settings for one of the foremost painters and illustrators in 19th-century America. And for the past 80 years, the William Flagg Homer house overlooking Town Hall has been the home of the Belmont Women's Club, celebrating its 91st anniversary in 2011. "What a magnificent treasure to have in our town. There are so few of these sorts of homes left," said Sandy …

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