Welcome Mat: Boston-Edison home tour to go virtual this year
The Detroit News
Boston-Edison home tour to go virtual this year
The Historic Boston-Edison Association presents the 46th Annual Holiday Home Tour 2020 Virtual Experience: A Season of New Beginnings. The narrated video tour will be viewable on their website from 9 a.m. Sunday through Jan. 1. Featuring five historically significant properties decorated for the holidays, viewers can see the exceptional architecture of the early 1900s and virtually meet the current owners. The tour will transport you to the “Golden Age” of Detroit, when Boston-Edison residents included such familiar names as Henry Ford, James Couzens, Charles T. Fisher and S.S. Kresge. Three of the homes have never been featured before. Viewing passes are $10 and will be sold until Jan 1. For information, go to historicbostonedison.org.
Fundraisers/Charitable activities
• Festival of Gifts Drive-Thru nativity story is 5-7 p.m. Dec. 13, Christ Church Cranbrook, 470 Church Road, Bloomfield Hills, visitors are asked to drop off an unwrapped toy for youth, christchurchcranbrook.org/event/festival-of-gifts-church-at-home.
• Oxford High School Middle School students have created a community-wide can drive, with promotional activities, Dec. 14-18, to benefit the FISH Food Pantry. To add some school spirit to the can drive, each school level will compete against one another to see who donates the most between them (high school level vs. middle school level vs. pre-k/elementary school level). Donation times are 3-7 p.m. Dec. 14-17. Three school buses will be used as collection points, with the tagline “CAN we fill a bus???” One bus will be parked in the Oxford High School north parking lot, one in the Oxford Middle School lot and one will be travel between the elementary schools throughout the week. For more infor