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Last updated 12/23/2011 at 12:32 p.m. PST

Where Victorian Isn't Just a House: The Great Dickens Christmas Fair

The Bay Citizen puts on a complicated skirt and rubs elbows with ghosts and explorers at a faux-British village

By Tammy Stellanova on December 13, 2011 - 1:08 p.m. PST

The Great Dickens Christmas Fair is an annual event that amounts to a kind of Charles Dickens-themed Renaissance Faire: actors dress up in detailed costume and patrol the streets of a carefully constructed fantasy land of Old English charm. It runs through December 18th.