Victorian Christmas is This Sunday from 12 – 4pm! We’re Telling You So You’ll Come!
Well here we are, post-Thanksgiving and into December. That can only mean one thing — our annual Victorian Christmas Open House!
This Sunday, December 6th between 12 and 4, we’ll be offering tours of the museum, storytelling, activities for the kids, delicious real food, and everyone’s favorite not-real food, birthday cake!
Why birthday cake, you ask? Because we’re rapidly approaching Joel Chandler Harris’ 164th birthday, silly.
It’s all free and a great opportunity to see the home at its best. Not only has our recent restoration made the place undeniably lovely, but we never look better than when we’ve been gussied up with historically accurate decorations.
Last year’s Victorian Christmas included highlights such as:
- a kid being called out by Catherine, volunteer and Asian Cajun, for taking 14 cookies at once
- no one touching the cold beverages
- a child rolling down the front stairs and emerging completely unscathed thanks to the padding of her down coat.
Though it may seem impossible, I think we can top it this year.
So hey! Join us! It’ll be great.
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Amber Suitt
Program Director
Lain Shakespeare
Executive Director
4 Comments to Victorian Christmas is This Sunday from 12 – 4pm! We’re Telling You So You’ll Come!
Since I was a flower girl, flag bearer, and garland bearer at the annual Wren’s Nest Festivals in the “old days” — it’s always wonderful to see what you all are doing there. It’s one of Atlanta’s treasures that too few people know about! Keep up the good work!
Someone has to keep the kids in lines. Just sayin.
Lar and I are bringing our camera. That doesn’t mean you’ll get better photos, but you will have photos this year!
I have tried the Wren’s Nest approach to altering bad behavior in a child, such as taking 14 cookies at once. Unfortunately, my child did not have the luxury of landing on his soft, down coat, because I told him if he wanted a coat he should get a job. This was just before I rolled him down the stairs for not making his bed.
Thanks Wren’s Nest. See you Sunday. Don’t worry, Timmy will still be in the hospital, so he won’t be there.
Sounds like Christmas in my childhood home in Eatonton. My house was built around 1814 and proves that old homes are impossible to childproof. It’s not a party until someone rolls down the stairs!