FARMINGTON — This past Saturday, Front Street in Farmington was filled with happy families and children enjoying family-friendly activities that included free movies, a visit with a live reindeer, wagon rides, hot chocolate and a visit from Santa Claus.

For the Christmas on Front Street event, children and family members could enjoy free movies at Narrow Gauge Cinemas which included Polar Express, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Two and It’s a Wonderful Life.

Children could share their wishes and have pictures taken with Santa and his sleigh at Stone Hearth Café patio, where hot chocolate and cookies were handed out to both children and adults.

Ken Charles and his team of Belgian draft horses, Zeke and Prince, were a popular attraction, pulling holiday revelers on a wagon up and down Front Street and to all the activity sites.

One of the stops, up the street at Divine Inspirations, included Ed Papsis and Candy Veilleux of Pony-Xpress Amusements of Winslow, who set up a corral containing the only reindeer living in the state of Maine, as well as a European spotted fallow deer. There, children also could enjoy hot chocolate around a bonfire while viewing “Santa’s workhorse.”

Annabelle Harnden, 5, of Dixfield, tells Santa what she wants for Christmas at his stop at the Stone Hearth Cafe.

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Ken Charles and his Belgian draft horses transport families to festivities on Front Street in Farmignton.

A reindeer greets visitors at Divine Inspirations in Farmington.

Helper Elf Ivy Enoch is pictured with “Zeke” and “Prince.”

European spotted fallow deer

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