Wilmington, Delaware – November and December 2010 – Hagley Museum and Library invites families to participate in the “Christmas at Hagley” activities on Workers’ Hill. Visit the Sunday School and Gibbons House to enjoy holiday pastimes. Activities include playing indoor games, baking and tasting old time recipes (cookies, biscuits, popcorn), doing handwork (knit, crochet, quilt, needlework), playing or listening to musical instruments, looking through a stereoscope, solving rebus brain teasers, and making a paper ornament. Activities on Workers’ Hill will be held November 26-30, weekends in December (4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19), and December 26 through January 2. Please visit www.hagley.org for full activity descriptions, times, and locations.
“Christmas gives us pause to appreciate our friends and relatives,” says Angela Williamson, Hagley’s coordinator of volunteers. “Come take a peek into the holiday activities the powder yard workers and their families would have enjoyed together.”
This year’s “Christmas at Hagley” exhibit is inspired by the winter pastimes of the property’s former residents. We welcome you to visit the exhibit, open Friday, November 26, 2010, through Sunday, January 2, 2011. The museum is open 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with the first bus leaving for the exhibit at 10 a.m. and the last bus at 3:30 p.m. The holiday display is included in the cost of admission and is free for members. Hagley, located in the beautiful Brandywine Valley, is where the du Pont story begins and features the original du Pont mills, estate, and gardens. Hagley is closed Christmas Day.
Please visit www.hagley.org for information on “Christmas at Hagley” family activities, programs, musical concerts, and specials at the Belin House Organic Café.
Hagley Museum and Library collects, preserves, and interprets the unfolding history of American enterprise. Hagley is located on Route 141 in Wilmington, Delaware. Admission to the 235-acre museum site is $11 for adults, $9 for students and senior citizens, $4 for children six to fourteen, and free for children five and under. For more information, call (302) 658-2400 weekdays or visit www.hagley.org.
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