Winter Garden Polar Express event will be held on Dec. 8

Winter Garden Heritage Foundation to host the special event put on by the Writer's Block Bookstore

By Sam Albuquerque
| 1:12 p.m. December 7, 2023

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The Winter Garden Heritage Foundation is hosting a free event called the Winter Garden Polar Express on Friday, Dec. 8 from 6-8 p.m.

Each child attending will receive a special Polar Express train ticket that grants access to a reading of the Polar Express inside the train located at the Winter Garden History Museum — no tickets are needed for adults.

There will also be various other “train stations” where eventgoers can get their tickets punched around the downtown Winter Garden area, including Ruby and Rust, Driftwood Market, Foxtail, Ginger's Baking, Swalty Sisters and others. Each station will have a treat for children with a tickets.

You can find more information on the event at the Writer’s Block Bookstore website at this link: WritersBlockBookstore.com

Here is the complete list of participating Winter Garden shops:

Writer's Block Bookstore (organizer)
Swalty Sisters
LiveTrends
Ruby and Rust
Driftwood Market
Polka Dotz
Artifact Candle Foundry
Gingers Baking Co
Foxtail Coffee Plant Street
Doxology
Woof Gang Bakery & Grooming

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Sam Albuquerque

A native of João Pessoa, Brazil, Sam Albuquerque moved in 1997 to Central Florida as a kid. After earning a communications degree in 2016 from the University of Central Florida, he started his career covering sports as a producer for a local radio station, ESPN 580 Orlando. He went on to earn a master’s degree in editorial journalism from Northwestern University, before moving to South Carolina to cover local sports for the USA Today Network’s Spartanburg Herald-Journal. When he’s not working, you can find him spending time with his lovely wife, Sarah, newborn son, Noah, and dog named Skulí.