Blue skies for 2nd Annual Holiday Cookie Tour

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The second annual holiday cookie tour went off under sunny blue skies on Sunday Dec. 9. More than 70 visitors from as far away as Rutland and Albany toured six houses, two churches and an inn, marveling at the decorations and munching on the cookies at each site.

A “passport” for the tour included photos, brief histories of each location and a recipe for the cookie served there. A portion of the $10 admission will go to the Chester Andover Family Center while the remainder will help put on next year’s Overture to Christmas.

Organizers will begin working on next year’s tour – in the Stone Village – in February.

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Chef Jason Tostrup of The Free Range created cookies for…

…Newsbank’s Lynn Anthony to serve at…

…Fletcher House, which Newsbank graciously opened for the day.

Daryll Kale with his cookies which he served with Lauren Fierman

Wayne McDevitt brings refills for the platter of cookies baked by his wife Rose.

Visitors show off their passports at the Hugging Bear

A roving gang of cookie lovers

The Fullerton’s Nancy Rugg with her creations

Erin Hennessy not only served cookies but gave a master class on cutting snowflakes out of paper

Visitors looked for the blue welcome signs at each location.

Thom Collins and David Pride talk with visitors

A chimney sweep nutcracker decorates one of the locations.

Bonnie Watters serves sour cream jumbles at St. Luke’s

This is not a cookie. Stained glass window at St. Luke’s

Lee Gustafson (facing the camera in the center) gives a tour of The Chester Baptist Church where huge hermit cookies welcomed visitors