

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: 18th Annual Boar's Head & Yule Log Festival
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 04 Jan, 2026 at 03:30 pm – Sun, 04 Jan, 2026 at 05:00 pm
- **Event Description**: The Festival starts at 3:30pm

Come Hear the Music ...
Come See the Pageantry ...
Come See the Tradition!

Free and open to the public! A cookie and punch reception will follow immediately after the festival. 

HISTORY OF THE FESTIVAL
In nature the wild boar is a formidable beast commanding the respect of modern sportspeople. Speed, weight, a tough hide, a compacted body low to the ground, sharp tusks that can injure, all conjure fearful images early ancestors overcame. As an honor to the brave hunters who slew it, the boar was the first dish served at great Roman feasts. In Norman England, the boar was the sovereign of the forest - a menace to people and an icon of evil. By the 12th century, the serving of the
boar’s head at Christmastide had become symbolic of the triumph of Christ over Satan, begun with His birth at Christmas and manifested at Resurrection and ultimately, His showing forth to the Gentiles. 

The Yule Log, a fresh log lighted by the last year’s embers and representing both the warmth of the family fireside and the continuance of human life and concern, has from
the earliest times symbolized the rekindling of love, and so of Love Himself incarnate. The old year passes and the new is born; yet the same Love lights each. 

No one knows who planned the first Boar’s Head procession, but Queens College, Oxford records the Festival shortly after the founding of the University in 1340. After three or four centuries at Oxford and Cambridge, added to the annual ceremony was the mince pie, the plum pudding, and cast as we see it here. The festival was a popular Christmas event of the great manor houses of England in the 17th century, and the custom was carried to colonial America, where the first presentation was in Connecticut.

The festival begins when a Yule Light Sprite brings a lighted candle into the darkened church symbolizing the coming of Light into our darkened world. Representing the Church, a minister receives the light, and from this flickering flame
rise the lights of the church itself. Announced by a fanfare, the Royal Court enters. The Boar’s Head, symbolic of Christ’s triumph over evil, follows, and is carried in stately procession. The rest of the royal household follows. Later come the woodsmen with the Yule Log, which represents the rekindling of Love; the Holy Family; the shepherds searching for the
Christ; and finally the three kings, bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. When all have assembled, the haunting poem of Christina Rossetti, “In the Bleak
Midwinter” is sung by both cast and congregation. To the music of the Eucharistic hymn “Let all Mortal Flesh Keep Silence,” the cast kneels in adoration of the King of
Kings and Lord of Lords as the church is darkened and the Epiphany star shines overhead. Then after the assemblage has recessed, the Yule Light Sprite returns, and
together with the minister carry forth the lighted candle to show that Christ is a light to all people.
May this offering of praise to Jesus Christ at His Epiphany recall us to the great gift of love given to us in the person of Jesus Christ, Our Lord.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/sharon/18th-annual-boars-head-and-yule-log-festival/200029032376150
- **Event Categories**: festivals
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 62

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029032376150?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=sharon-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Sharon
- **state**: PA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: First Presbyterian Church of Sharon, PA
- **lat**: 41.23271998328
- **long**: -80.498153922129
- **full address**: First Presbyterian Church of Sharon, PA, 600 E State St,Sharon, Pennsylvania, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: The Boar's Head & Yule Log Festival at First Pres. Church of Sharon, PA (https://allevents.in/org/the-boars-head-and-yule-log-festival-at-first-pres-church-of-sharon-pa/26890740)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 04 Jan, 2026 at 03:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** First Presbyterian Church of Sharon, PA, 600 E State St,Sharon, Pennsylvania, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** The Boar's Head & Yule Log Festival at First Pres. Church of Sharon, PA
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** festivals
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about 18th Annual Boar's Head & Yule Log Festival ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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