Winter on the Home Front: A Civil War Christmas

Sat Dec 1, 2018 - Sun Dec 2, 2018
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Repeating every days through December 2, 2018.
12:00pm ET
Age: All
Price: $7/adult, $6/senior, $5/child 4-16, FREE per child age 3 and under.
Location:
Historic Speedwell
973.285.6550
333 Speedwell Avenue, Morristown, NJ, 07960
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Travel back in time and experience the holidays during the Civil War-era. Check out how soldiers prepared food, built winter huts to keep warm, and wrote letters home to loved ones.

Visit the historic Vail House to read actual letters from Union troops, and admire the simple, yet elegant, period decorations. Attend an Officer’s Ball, and enjoy fiddle music, dancing, and festive costumes.

 

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