By Claudia Loucks
Geneseo Current
Megan Harrington, eight-year-old daughter of Mike and Jill Harrington, Geneseo, shows the 2024 Christmas ornament, which reflects this year’s Christmas Walk theme of “Too Many Santas.”
Photo by Claudia Loucks
Les Hoste, a member of RutabagA Studio and Gallery, Geneseo, designed and made the ornaments commemorating the 39th anniversary of the Geneseo Christmas Walk event. The 2024 ornament is circular in shape, made of oak, and features a cut-out Santa figure in the center. The words, “2024 Geneseo Christmas Walk” are imprinted on the front of the ornament.
There are a limited number of the ornaments created each year. They are offered for sale, beginning Friday, Nov. 15, the day of the Geneseo Christmas Open House, at $20 each at RutabagA Studio & Gallery, 108 North State St; Geneseo Art League, 125 North State St.; and Smith Studio and Gallery, 124 South State.
Stepping back in time to 1993, the year when the late Don Beck created the very first ornament to commemorate the Victorian Walk in Geneseo. The Victorian Walk became the Geneseo Christmas Walk in 2008. Beck retired from making the ornaments in 2006, but the ornament tradition continues each year.
The Christmas Walk ornament is a special Christmas tradition for many families who look forward to adding this year’s ornament, knowing that these will be cherished heirlooms for generations to come.