Red Bank Merchants Decorate Shop Windows With Songs, Heart

By Carol Williams/Patch Staff

RED BANK, NJ - The borough businesses represented by RiverCenter are sponsoring a Holiday Music Madness Hunt in which you will get more than just a pang of wistfulness from your window shopping: if you correctly identify which windows go with each song, you will win the contest and like all good Christmas presents, the prize is a secret but contest organizers say it is a very "noteworthy Red Bank Grand Prize." The contest is meant to be entered into in a leisurely pace and not a mad dash. The contest begins Black Friday and concludes Dec. 22. Entry forms are available from any participating merchant. An official guide also is available from the same vendors. Once you have completed the form, you may drop your guide off at any participating business and the game is afoot.

Here is a little head start: Some of the songs that inspired the windows are ""Frosty the Snowman," "Winter Wonderland," "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing," "Jingle Bells," "Santa Claus is Coming to Town," "Candy Cane Christmas," "It's a Marshmallow World," "White Christmas," "Little Drummer Boy" and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." To make things easier for your crawl through downtown Red Bank, free parking is available this Friday and Saturday and next month, from Dec. 11 through Christmas Day. More details are available at http://www.redbank.org/events/...

Photograph by Jacques Brinon/Associated Press