CHRISTMAS EVENTS AT HISTORIC RUGBY
December 5 - Holiday Home Tour, Dinner & Concert
December 12 - Traditional Christmas at Historic Rugby
NEW EVENT
Holiday Home Tour, Dinner & Concert - Saturday, December 5, 2009
Tour 10 Victorian Decorated Private Homes in Beacon Hill
& Other Locations
Horse Drawn Wagon Rides in the Lantern Lit Village
Special Dinner At Harrow Road Café
Don Brakebill Singers In Concert at the Rebecca Johnson Theatre
Event begins at 3:00 pm ET
Dinner Serving from 5:00 pm ~ Last Seating at 6:30 pm ET
Concert Starts at 8:00 pm
A Special Festive Dinner Including:
Roasted Red Pepper Soup, Honey Roasted Loin of Pork w/Cranberry
Port Sauce, Baked Sweet Potato, Lemon Mushroom Peas
Cheddar Garlic Spoon Rolls, Chocolate Mousse, Beverage of Choice
Warming Fires and Oil Lamp and Candlelight Will Add to Your Enjoyment
EVENT TICKETS: $50.00/person, Includes All Activities
28th YEAR EVENT
Come Join In A Seasonal Celebration of Times Past At
CHRISTMAS AT HISTORIC RUGBY
December 12 - 4 pm to 9 pm Eastern Time
Step Back To An 1880s Christmas At Rugby With Candle and Lamplit
Visits To Traditionally Decorated Historic Buildings – Hot Wassail & Caroling – Actors Presenting Rugby Christmas Past - Seasonal Music - Lessons & Carols Service at 1887 Christ Church Plus
~Traditional Four Course Dinner ~
Four Course Menu:
Mulled Red Wine, Smoked Oyster Pate w/Crackers, Curried Pumpkin Soup, Thyme Roasted Breast of Turkey Over Savoury Dressing w/Cranberry Port Sauce, Orange Balsamic Green Beans, Harrow Road Spoon Rolls, Sherry Trifle w/Gingerbread
EVENT TICKETS:
(Includes All Activities Except Dinner)
$10 Adults; HS & Elementary Students $4.00
Historic Rugby Members $7.00
CHRISTMAS DINNER TICKETS By Advance Reservation
2 Seatings – 5:45 & 8:00 PM ET
$29.00 Each, Tax & Gratuity Included
Candlelit visits to traditionally decorated historic buildings; glimpses of 1880s Rugby Christmases, seasonal music, an award winning film and mural at the Rugby Visitor Centre & Theatre, and a traditional Victorian dinner all await visitors to Christmas At Historic Rugby. The annual holiday fundraiser will take place December 12 at the British-founded museum village atop the Cumberland Plateau.
Six historic and reconstructed buildings will be open to visitors each Saturday, lit with candles and vintage oil lamps, and beautifully decorated with holly, ivy, and evergreens, just as used by Rugby's early colonists. Open buildings include the antique-filled founder's home, Kingstone Lisle, where Madame Margaret Hughes, the founder's mother, portrayed by Virginia Lovellette, will greet visitors. The fragrance of plum pudding steaming on the kitchen wood stove will fill the house.
Visitors will also be welcomed to 1880 Newbury House, the Victorian-furnished Bed & Breakfast which served as the colony's first boarding house.
The Harrow Road Cafe will serve a four-course Christmas dinner by oil lamp light at two reserved seatings each evening - 5:45 and 8:00 pm Eastern Time. Recipe handouts will be provided. For event and dinner tickets and area lodging information, call Historic Rugby toll free at 1-888-214-3400 or locally at 628-2441.
The history film, Rugby: The Power of a Dream, will be shown several times each evening at the Rebecca Johnson Theatre. A 32-foot wall mural at the visitor centre shows Rugby as it looked in the 1880s. Hot wassail will be served fireside at the Rugby Community Room where visitors can take part in old-time caroling.
At the Rugby Printing Works, the 1880s Chandler-Price letterpress will turn out hand printed hot wassail recipes for visitors. Christmas treasure shoppers at the Commissary Museum Store, Spirit of Red Hill Nature Art and Oddiments Shop, and Carriage House Gallery will find many gift ideas from ornate Victorian cards and decorations to cookbooks, British preserves and teas, hand-crafted pottery, quilts, woven rugs, stained glass, dolls and baskets, and art prints. An authentically costumed St. Nicholas will give out candy to children of all ages.
Visitors can also attend a Lessons & Carols worship service at historic Christ Church Episcopal, held twice each evening.
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