• West End Festival of Lights, Thursday through Sundays, 5-9 p.m. at the West End Fairgrounds, Fairground Road, Gilbert. 100,000 lights and three mega trees sequenced to music. Food and craft vendors. Admission. www.wefol.com.

• Lights on the Lake: Holiday and winter-themed light displays throughout Mauch Chunk Lake Park in Jim Thorpe through Dec. 23, Lights at the Lake will be open every Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Tickets can be purchased at LightsAtTheLake.com. To benefit Raising the House. To learn more, visitLightsAtTheLake.com or email Sawyer Allen at sawyer@raisingthehouse.org.

• The Carbon Model Railroad Society will hold its Holiday Open House at 529 Ore Street in Bowmanstown on Thursdays, Dec. 1 and 8 and on Jan. 5 from 7-9 p.m. It will also be open on Saturdays and Sundays, Dec. 10-11 and Jan. 7-8 from 1-4 p.m. Admission is free; donations are welcome, 610-826-6636.

• Jim Thorpe’s Memorial Park First Festival of Trees at the park along East 10th Street every evening.

• Palmerton Christmas in the Park, Palmerton Borough Park.

• Walnutport Trees, lit every evening, S. Lincoln Ave.

• Lehighton Christmas in the Park, Upper and Lower parks, evenings.

• Bach and Handel Chorale Inc., two Christmas concerts this weekend: 3 p.m. Saturday at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 158 Fish Hill Road, Tannersville, and Sunday at St. Paul’s UCC, 1249 Trexlertown Road, Trexlertown, free will offering.

• Hometown Vintage Christmas, organized by the Lehighton Downtown Partnership, will be from noon to 6 p.m. on First Street. Visitors can stroll through decorated downtown Lehighton and visit its shops and handcrafted vendors. There will be music, a visit with Father Christmas, and hot chocolate.

Among the activities offered will be Christmas horse and wagon rides, a kids craft corner, and pictures with Father Christmas.

• American Legion Auxiliary (ALA) Unit 927, Gilbert, Monroe, Children’s Christmas Party with Santa, 1 to 4 p.m. Dec. 11, American Legion Post 927 – 646 Fairground Rd, Gilbert. Reservations: Contact Mary Vanicky at 570-620-6982 or mjv816@hotmail.com

• Diligent Fire Company, Children’s Christmas party, Dec. 17 at the fire company, 330 Center Avenue, Jim Thorpe. Drive-through Christmas party to see Santa between 1-2 p.m. Call 570-325-3811.

• PeepFest, hosted by ArtsQuest and Just Born Quality Confections, Dec. 30 and Dec. 31 at the SteelStacks in Bethlehem, 3-6 p.m. Tickets and information can be found at steelstacks.org/PEEPSFEST.

• Christkindlmarkt at the SteelStacks in Bethlehem, weekends through Dec. 19. This year ArtsQuest will debut The Ice Rink at SteelStacks. Skating will run from Nov. 22-Jan. 1. Tickets, Christmascity.org.

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