This week on the South Shore: Plymouth's Thanksgiving parade, two Hingham holiday fairs and Fuller Craft's holiday shop

Plymouth's big Thanksgiving weekend arrives Saturday, Nov. 21, when America's Hometown Thanksgiving Parade steps off from Plymouth Rock at 10 a.m., free to watch, with 25 floats and more than 20 musical groups this year, the organizers say.

The parade leads a week that also brings two holiday fairs in Hingham on the same Saturday morning, a farmers market under the Marshfield Fairgrounds grandstand, a holiday shop opening at Brockton's Fuller Craft Museum and a pops concert at Plymouth Memorial Hall. Every date, time and price below comes from the organizer's own page or the city's calendar, read Sunday morning.

Today, Sunday, Nov. 15

Duxbury: meet the artist at the Art Complex Museum. Maine sculptor Lin Lisberger opens "20 Walks," carved and painted wood pieces that each grow out of a walk she has taken, with an opening reception from 1 to 4 p.m. at 189 Alden St. She leads a walk-through of the gallery at noon, just before the reception. Both are free, and the museum says registration for the walk-through is appreciated. The show runs through Feb. 14, and admission to all of the museum's exhibitions is free.

Friday, Nov. 20

Plymouth: "An American Soundtrack" with the Plymouth Philharmonic. The orchestra plays the Friday night concert of the America's Hometown Thanksgiving Celebration at 7 p.m. at Plymouth Memorial Hall, 83 Court St., with a pops program of ragtime, swing and Broadway medleys from "The Music Man" and "Wicked," conducted by Neal Hampton, with vocalist Philip Lima. All seats are $45, plus a $1 restoration fee the Town of Plymouth adds to Memorial Hall tickets.

Saturday, Nov. 21

Plymouth: America's Hometown Thanksgiving Parade. Festivities begin at 9 a.m. with opening ceremonies on the waterfront, and the parade steps off from Plymouth Rock at 10 a.m. and ends at Court and Nelson streets. Organizers bill it as a chronological parade that moves through American history century by century, and this year's theme celebrates the country's 250th anniversary. The organizers' list of marching bands includes the Abington Champions Marching Band, Plymouth North and South high schools and the UMass Dartmouth Corsairs. Admission is free, and WCVB Channel 5 carries it live for anyone watching from home, with a stream on the Very Local app and on usathanksgiving.com.

Plan around the road closures: Water Street, from Union Street to the rotary at Town Wharf, closes at 7 a.m., and the Main Street extension through Main and Court streets to Nelson Street closes at 8:30 a.m., each until the parade ends. Shuttle buses run every 15 minutes from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. from Obery Street, off Route 3 at Exit 13, and from the commuter rail lot on Marion Drive in Kingston, off Exit 17, dropping riders on Lincoln Street. The organizers call the shuttles, which are wheelchair accessible, the closest drop-off to the route.

Plymouth: Holiday Village in Brewster Gardens. On parade day the gardens fill with vendors, a children's tent and photos with Santa, and admission is free.

Plymouth: New England Harvest Feast at Plimoth Patuxet. A family-style dinner from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at 137 Warren Ave., with roast turkey, mussels and stewed squash served at communal tables while costumed performers bring music and storytelling. Nonmembers pay $87, or $60 for children under 12; members pay $60, or $43 for children under 12; children under 5 are $40. Each ticket includes two days of admission to the museum's historic sites.

Hingham: The Hingham Holiday Fair. Vendors fill Hingham High School for this fair, open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., with food trucks outside the school entrance and a large raffle of themed baskets. Entry is $5, cash only, at the front of the school, and it includes one raffle ticket. Part of the money goes to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute through the Pan-Mass Challenge.

Hingham: St. John's Holiday Boutique. The same morning, the Episcopal Parish of St. John the Evangelist, 172 Main St., holds its boutique from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. with vendors selling everything from homemade jam to handcrafted jewelry, a cafe with lunch and sweets, and Santa from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The parish gives all of the boutique's door proceeds to the Cohasset Appalachia Service Project, a home-building ministry.

Marshfield: Farmers market under the grandstand. The Marshfield Farmers Market holds its November winter market from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., rain or shine, under the grandstand at the Marshfield Fairgrounds, 140 Main St. The market says it sells only local goods, including produce, baked goods and prepared foods, with free parking and free admission.

Brockton: Holiday Handmade opens at Fuller Craft Museum. The museum's holiday shop spills into the gallery starting Saturday, with ceramics, jewelry, knitwear and cards from artists and makers, through Jan. 10. It is free and needs no registration, at 455 Oak St., open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.

All week

Plymouth: Plimoth Patuxet's last two weeks. The living history museum, with the Historic Patuxet Homesite, the 17th-Century English Village and Mayflower II, stays open every day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through the Sunday after Thanksgiving, Nov. 29. A Heritage Pass to every site, good for two days, is $46 for adults, $41.40 for seniors and $29 for children, and free for museum members.

Hull: The lifesavers' station. The Hull Lifesaving Museum fills the old Point Allerton lifesaving station at 1117 Nantasket Ave., where Joshua James, the Hull lifesaver born 200 years ago next Sunday, Nov. 22, served as keeper. It is open 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday and Thursday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday through Sunday. Admission is $8, and it is free for children under 5, museum members, active U.S. service members and their families, and EBT, WIC and ConnectorCare cardholders.

Looking ahead to Sunday, Nov. 22

Brockton: Turkey giveaway. The 7th Annual Brockton Turkey Giveaway, presented by Bridges of Care, starts at noon in the parking lot across the street from Brockton City Hall, 45 School St., and runs until the turkeys are gone, one bag per family, according to the event flyer on the city's calendar.

How we chose

We searched event listings for the South Shore towns we cover, read Brockton's city calendar and Weymouth's town calendar, then read each organizer's own page and picked public events and places open between Nov. 15 and 21, each with a date and place its organizer posted, and with times and prices wherever the organizer lists them, plus one free event the next day that Brockton lists on its city calendar. Nobody paid to be listed, and no listing here is an ad. Times and prices can change, so check the organizer's page before you go.

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