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'Twas The Night Before Christmas at Locust Grove
Each weekend in December, step back in time and re-live the romance of Christmas past at Locust Grove. This year, celebrate the holiday season as they feature the classic Christmas tale 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, a Hudson Valley legend that has enchanted families for generations with "visions of sugar plums". Recent scholarship suggests that the original teller of this perennial favorite may have been Locust Grove's first resident, Henry Livingston, Jr., and so they've created a fantasy world to match! Get in the holiday spirit as you enjoy glittering decorations throughout the historic mansion, where each room has a different Christmas theme.
The estate will delight visitors with a feast for the senses. An enormous Christmas tree fills the Drawing Room's bay window and historic music wafts through the halls, along with the scent of evergreens from elaborately-decorated mantles. A magical glow illuminates the house where romantic decorations will thrill adults and children alike.
After touring the mansion, enjoy the sunset over the Hudson River from the porch, or stroll back through the landscape garden to the elegant Museum Pavilion where you can enjoy holiday music and hot spiced cider and cookies on Saturdays, and the holiday hunt for children on Sundays. Don't miss the exciting Museum Shop, filled with treats for everyone!
Decorated Mansion Tours, Saturdays & Sundays, December 1 - 23 from 12 noon to 4 pm. Tour the mansion at your own pace. Guides in each room share information on the showcased museum collections and decorations. House tour fee: $9/ person, $5/children under 12 years (does not include the hunt), includes self-guided mansion tour, holiday music, hot cider & cookies.
Holiday Special for Kids - Sundays in December
A Hunt for 'Twas the Night Before Christmas:
Search the house for the sleeping mouse, stockings, sugar plums & more.
Sundays, December 2, 9, 16 & 23, 2007 from 12 noon to 4 pm
Performance times: 1:30 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Children and their families are invited to Locust Grove on Sunday afternoons for this holiday special which features the classic tale 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. Before touring the mansion, start at the Museum Pavilion where you'll make your own unique book. Then, with your book in hand, collect the clues to the tale as your travel through the mansion's 25 decorated rooms. Can you find the sleeping mouse, the children's stockings, and father's sleeping cap? After you have found the clues, return to the Museum Pavilion for a storytelling performance by Lorraine Hartin-Gelardi which will include a telling of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas as well as many other Christmas favorites.
Holiday Hunt Event Fee: $7/ child, $9/adult, includes makeyour own-book, the hunt in the house (collect the clues),
holiday performance by storyteller Lorraine Hartin- Gelardi, hot cider & cookies.
Locust Grove is also open December 26 - 31, 10am- 5pm (last tour at 3:15 pm) for guided house tours and a little extra holiday cheer. Guided House Tour Fee: $9/person, $5/children
Locust Grove, a National Historic Landmark, is a 180- acre estate overlooking the Hudson River in Poughkeepsie, NY. Once home of Samuel F.B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph and Morse Code, today the estate serves as an accessible cultural and natural resource for the enjoyment, visitation and enlightenment of the public. Locust Grove is located at 2683 South Road (Route 9), Poughkeepsie, NY, just 2 miles south of Mid-Hudson Bridge. For information: 845-454- 4500 or visit
www.morsehistoricsite.org
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