Old English Christmas at Old Dutch Parsonage

Old English Christmas at Old Dutch Parsonage

When

Sat, Nov 30, 2024    
2:30 pm-3:30 pm
Free

Where

Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites
71 Somerset St., Somerville, NJ, 08876

Event Type

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.

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