Olde Fashioned Christmas at the Mill

YOUNGSTOWN — Tom Porterfield and his family have started a new holiday tradition that includes strolling through the park, browsing unique arts and crafts displays and taking in the sights, sounds and smells of the holiday season.

And to do it, he had to travel to Youngstown, bringing wife Jeanie and sons Travis, 10, and Kyle, 7, from Long Island, N.Y. The Porterfields are in town visiting family in Canfield for Thanksgiving but took time out to visit the Olde Fashioned Christmas at the Mill Saturday for the second year in a row.

The event, sponsored by The Beecher Foundation and Farmer’s National Bank, brought together young and old who kicked off the holiday shopping season at Lanterman’s Mill in Mill Creek Park.

Demonstrations in blacksmithing, tinsmithing, pottery, weaving, rock painting and Native American beadwork were offered, and musicians.

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