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Old English Christmas at Old Dutch Parsonage
November 24, 2024 @ 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Free
Sunday, November 24 and Saturday, November 30 & December 21, 2:30 p.m.
Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites
71 Somerset Street, Somerville, NJ 08876
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.