Today’s Things 2 do

The Fashionable 1920s, State Museum, 222 Madison Ave., Albany. 1 p.m. Free. Learn about the clothing and fashion of New Yorkers in the “Roaring Twenties,” from everyday wear to fancy dress. Make your own headpiece to take home with you.

A Discussion of the Christmas Writings of Charles Dickens, Claverack Free Library, 629 State route 23B, Claverack. 2 p.m. Free. Local Dickens enthusiast Stewart Sommerville will present a discussion of the author’s Christmas writings and how this relationship changed traditional Victorian celebrations of the holiday. Refreshments served.

Christmas Lessons and Carols, Christ Episcopal Church, 132 Duanesburg Churches Road, Duanesburg. 7 p.m. Free. Sacred Christmas hymns along with scripture reading. Refreshments follow in the Parish Hall.

Lessons and Carols Christmas Worship Service, Kinderhook Reformed Church, 21 Broad St., Kinderhook. 4 p.m. Free. A worship service celebrating the birth of Christ. Directed by David Smith.

Sunny Sundays at the Dudley Observatory at misci, Museum of Innovation and Science, 15 Nott Terrace Heights, Schenectady. 1 p.m. $12, $8 child. Educators from the Dudley Observatory at misci will operate the 14-inch telescope inside the roll-top roof observatory, allowing visitors to safely look at the sun and search for sunspots. http:// www.misci.org.

“The Value of Names” by Jeffrey Sweet, Congregation Ohav Shalom, 113 New Krumkill Road, Albany. 7 p.m. $15 show. One act play examines the effect of the Mccarthy-era blacklisting on Hollywood’s artistic community 30 years later.