Hundreds pack Bethesda-by-the-Sea for the annual Boar's Head and Yule Log Festival, performed here since 1977. The traditional English boar's head dates back to the 1300s in Queen's College, Oxford . Boars menaced villagers in Norman England; the serving of the boar symbolizes the triumph of good over evil.

More than 160; including parishioners, vocalists, the Bethesda Choir, Palm Beach Pipes and Drums, and instrumentalists; dress as lords and ladies, sprites, pages, jesters, shepherds, huntsmen and beefeaters in a mingling of pagan and Christian traditions.

The ceremony is held on the Sunday closest to The Epiphany, the twelfth day of Christmas; the date the Three Kings are said to have arrived in Bethlehem .

The next presentation will be held on Sunday, January 4, 2009 at 2:30 p.m. and then again at 4:30 p.m. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.