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Victorian Christmas Schedule of Events
2008
Join us as we celebrate the
10th annual Victorian Christmas, “A Scottish Christmas,"
this year, slated for November 21, 22 and 23, 2008.
The Scottish theme will feature
bagpipers, Celtic music, a Scottish luncheon and kilt show throughout
the course of the celebration, with tours of lavishly decorated
homes, mansions, churches and museums throughout the city being
offered on November 22, 2008.
Preservation Williamsport's
Annual Meeting will be held November 20, 2008.
Victorian Christmas Activities
for children:
Time: 2:00 to 4:00
pm
Location: Park Place, 800 W. Fourth St .
Children's events are sponsored
by the YWCA and Children's Discovery Workshop. Father Christmas
will be strolling through the Historic District.
Tours are planned of Victorian
and Historic Homes and Churches along West Fourth Street and in
the Vallamont Area. Other events also are planned at the Thomas
Taber Museum, the Peter Herdic Transportation Museum, the Durrwachter
House Women's Museum the Rowley House Museum.
All of the mansions are decorated by area florists and hosted by
guides in period dress. Musical entertainment is provided throughout
the afternoon at tour sites courtesy of a Pennsylvania Partners
on the Arts grant.
The Victorian Christmas event schedule includes:
Friday, Nov. 15, 2008, 5 to 7 p.m.
Candlelight Preview Tours of the Rowley House and Johnson Durrwachter House museums, Trinity Church, and a private home to be announced.
Kilt Show featuring men modeling family heritage clan tartans, with bagpipes, Celtic music and Robert Burns readings.
Friday, Nov. 21, 2008
DuBoistown Garden Club Holiday House display at Pennington Lounge, Lycoming College
Beginning at 6 p.m., Santa Claus Parade in downtown Williamsport
Contra Dance with music by Black Bear Crossing and an exhibiting of the Highland Fling by Milissa Augustine Dance Studio
Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Mansion, museum and church tours
Toy Train Expo at Park Place
DuBoistown Garden Club Holiday House display at Pennington Lounge, Lycoming College
Soup Luncheon, Trinity Episcopal Church
Food and craft vendors, Park Place
Taber Museum and Herdic Transportation Museum open with discount for Victorian Christmas attendees
Carriage rides at Park Place
Victorian Tea at Herdic House Restaurant
Sunday, Nov. 23
Toy Train Expo at Park Place
Mansion Tour Tickets: $12.00
Children and students are free when accompanied by an adult
Church Tours : Free
For ticket information call
Lycoming County Visitors' Bureau at (800) 358-9900 or (570) 327-7700.
E-mail them at visitor info@williamsport.org
. Tickets also are available at the Gazebo on Trinity Place/Park
Place the day of the event.
Members of the Victorian
Christmas Committee receive a 2008 grant award from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Shown, from left, are: Gail Landers, Victorian Christmas; Jennifer Swain, Northern Tier Cultural Alliance; Nan Young, Victorian Christmas; Rep. Garth Everett; and Fran Visco, Victorian Christmas.
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