The 2025 Shopping by Lantern Light, Tuesday evening before Thanksgiving, drew what appeared to be the largest crowd yet for the annual event, at least since it moved three years ago to the Farmers Market location behind the Visit Statesboro! center on South Main Street.

Shoppers parked across the street at the Queensborough Bank and up the block at First United Methodist Church. Georgia Southern University buses ferried shoppers from First Baptist to Queensborough. As the parking lot at the Statesboro-Bulloch County Library filled to near capacity, shoppers on foot teemed down the Willie McTell Trail and strolled as a crowd across the double footbridge to the market area.

Interviewed about one hour into the three-hour, 5:30-8:30 p.m. event, Kelsie Cobb, market manager for Statesboro Main

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