QUALITY STREET FAIR
Quality Street Fair – THANK YOU!
Quality Street Fair
Quality Street is a Holiday Fair with Dickensian flair run each November. The fair includes a greenery booth run by the Altar Guild, vendor booths (featuring both parishioners’ products and those from outside vendors), teacup auction, Christmas booth, and homemade sweet shop, as well as roaming carolers and lunch service in the parish hall.
Each year for at least 35 years, all of the proceeds have been donated to these community programs: The Canton Food Bank, the Canton Fuel Bank, and the Trinity Nursery School Scholarship Fund.
This year on November 23rd from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Quality Street is working in collaboration with the First Congregational Church in Canton Center to offer “Christmastime on Rt 179.” Get a big jump on your holiday shopping and make a day of it!
Where does the name Quality Street come from?
There is an actual Quality Street in Merstham, Great Britain, where a local parish has been running a (mostly annual) fair since the 1300’s. In 1901, J.M. Barrie (author of Peter Pan) made that place famous by writing Quality Street, a play centered on quaint small-town life.
The name is also synonymous with a popular candy. In the early 1930s, only the wealthy could afford boxed chocolates made from exotic ingredients from around the world, with elaborate packaging that often cost as much as the chocolates themselves. In Great Britain, Harold Mackintosh had inherited a candy business from his parents, who’d developed a soft toffee candy that was popular. He had the idea to cover his different toffees with chocolate, wrap them in colorful paper, and present them in low-cost, yet attractive tins. Packaged in this way, the chocolates could be sold at a reasonable price and would, therefore, be available to working-class families. (Source: Wikipedia).
One could surmise the items available at our holiday fair are good quality at affordable prices – and that we’ve got some really tasty sweets.
Interested in Helping?
Lend a helping hand by donating or volunteering with our outreach ministries. Contact Claudette in the Trinity Office for help connecting to those who can get you started.