Hanging of the Greens is Hargrave’s annual Christmas program and serves as the unofficial conclusion to the beginning of the Chatham community’s Christmas festivities (“Christmas in Colonial Chatham”). Traditionally, a Hanging of the Greens service marks the beginning of the Advent season. Advent looks with hope to the coming celebration of the nativity of Jesus at Christmas as well as with expectation to His eschatological return at the Second Coming.
