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Old English Christmas at the Old Dutch Parsonage
December 21 @ 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
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Old English Christmas at the Old Dutch Parsonage
Visit a festive Old Dutch Parsonage for a reading and discussion of passages from Washington Irving’s “Old English Christmas” in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
Trace the history of the holiday among the colonial Dutch before the American Revolution and the contributions of Washington Irving’s work to the customs of the holiday season today.