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<\/a>As far as I could tell, Mineral Point’s Candlelight Shopping Night<\/a> was a big success this year. \u00a0 Keith and I met up with friends and strolled through most of the shops in Mineral Point.\u00a0 The weather was perfect (except for a dash of Wisconsin winter) and plenty of people were out enjoying themselves.\u00a0 Our first stop was at the Kiwanis Club; they were literally<\/em> roasting chestnuts over an open fire!\u00a0 Tasty.\u00a0 Somehow I ended up dancing and singing a Christmas carol with a random man.\u00a0 It’s a good thing we stopped by early, when we came back around this way later in the evening, they had just run out of chestnuts.\u00a0 After the snack, we went to the Mineral Point Collection.\u00a0 They have many Cornish related items (jewelry, clothes, books, etc).\u00a0 My favorite section of the store is at the back where they sell English foods such as teas, jams, and cookies (Keith says I should say biscuits <\/em>here, not cookies).\u00a0 In fact, they have the best selection of English tea I’ve seen anywhere in Wisconsin.\u00a0 They have Twinings<\/a>, PG Tips<\/a>, Lifeboat<\/a>, Taylors of Harrogate<\/a>, and more.\u00a0 We sampled some teacakes<\/a> and Jaffa cakes<\/a>; Keith bought two packages of McVitie’s dark chocolate digestives<\/a>.\u00a0 Another highlight of the night was Phoebe’s Nest where they have beautiful handmade jewelry, scarves, vintage furniture, tea sets, and more.\u00a0 We also enjoyed some of Keith Huie<\/a>‘s hilarious drawings<\/a> at the Longbranch Gallery<\/a>.\u00a0 Set in Stone Bookstore<\/a> was very popular and we treated ourselves with some Kickapoo coffee<\/a> , chocolates by Gail Ambrosius<\/a>, and music by local musician Rick Harris.\u00a0 Finally, we spotted Santa and his helpers caroling through the streets.\u00a0 I guess he was getting in some last minute shopping too!<\/p>\n A Window Shopper<\/strong><\/p>\n Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire<\/strong><\/p>\n As far as I could tell, Mineral Point’s Candlelight Shopping Night was a big success this year. \u00a0 Keith and I met up with friends and strolled through most of the shops in Mineral Point.\u00a0 The weather was perfect (except for a dash of Wisconsin winter) and plenty of people were out enjoying themselves.\u00a0 Our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,44],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driftless-area-towns","category-made-in-wisconsin","tag-shopping","no-featured-image"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1146,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"candlelightshopping5\"](\"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/candlelightshopping5.jpg\" "\\"candlelightshopping5\\"")
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