On the first Saturday of December every year for more than four decades, Ship Bottom is transformed from the gateway to Long Beach Island to a slice of the North Pole as the town hosts a Christmas parade to kick off the holiday season for the LBI region.
With Halloween still a month away, Christmas might seem like it’s far off. In the stores, the holiday season arrived months ago, and for those ticking away days on a calendar, ’tis the season is officially less than three months away.
All of that translates to preparations for the 43rd annual Ship Bottom Christmas parade being already underway.
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