Barn Shops open holiday season

Posted by Rich Schwartzman on November 18, 2018

Party time at the Barn Shops

The holiday season got underway Saturday night at the Barn Shops in Chadds Ford Township. It was a party atmosphere with live music and people sitting around fire pits in the front parking lot. Santa was visiting and taking Christmas toy requests at Chrome Hair Salon and there was food from Chadds Café. Green Meadows Florist and Barbara Moore Fine Art Gallery stayed open late and the Brandywine Conservancy officially lit the Potts Meadow Tree on the south side of Route 1 across from the barn Shops. Popular artist Jacalyn Beam was also painting the scene well into the dark.

Hanging out. It's like a beach party in the front parking lot of the Barn Shops.

Bri Brandt, of Arden and James, left, and Ellen Ferretti, director of the Brandywine Conservancy, count down to the lighting of the Tree in Potts Meadow.

About Rich Schwartzman

Rich Schwartzman has been reporting on events in the greater Chadds Ford area since September 2001 when he became the founding editor of The Chadds Ford Post. In April 2009 he became managing editor of ChaddsFordLive. He is also an award-winning photographer.