December 11th, 2024
Burl Ives Christmas at museum
Abominable selfies are back at the Anacortes Museum!
Stage your season’s greeting with life-size figures from the “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” animated TV special narrated by the late Burl Ives, once a resident of Anacortes.
Each year since 2017, the Anacortes Museum has celebrated the bumbles and misfit toys with a winter tribute to Rudolph and friends. This year, the holiday characters are peeking out from the museum’s ground-floor windows and on display upstairs in the Carnegie Gallery at 1305 8th Street for the entire month of December.
The large Christmas cutout murals depict characters from the 1964 animated Christmas TV special “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,” which featured Burl Ives as the narrator and voice of Sam the Snowman.
These Christmas decorations were placed out each year in Anacortes on Burl and Dorothy Ives’ street frontage at 2804 Oakes Ave., to the community’s great delight. The murals, painted on wood by Eddie Strivens of Anacortes, range from about 2 feet to 7.5 feet in height.
Photo: Barbara Bear welcomes weekend visitors to the museum, 1305 8th Street.
More information available at: https://www.anacorteswa.gov/1507/Holiday-Exhibit
