Old English Christmas at Old Dutch Parsonage

Name: Old English Christmas at Old Dutch Parsonage
Start: 2024-11-24T14:30:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-24T15:30:00-05:00
Location: 71 Somerset Street, Somerville, NJ, United States, New Jersey 08876

Schedule

Sun Nov 24 2024 at 02:30 pm to 03:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

71 Somerset Street, Somerville, NJ, United States, New Jersey 08876 | Somerville, NJ

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.