With Saint Nicholas Day comes a feeling that Christmas really is on its way. We do try to keep things more somber (we prefer to celebrate Christmas for the full twelve days once Christmas Lent is over... December 25th - January 5th), but we do take advantage of a few Christmassy things that happen around here before Nativity. One we've had on our list this year, was to go to a local reenactment town for their Nineteenth Century Christmas celebration. I was a bit disappointed with the event at first because I thought that there would be people talking about Christmas and the way that it was celebrated in the nineteenth century, but it was really a time to watch the artisans at work and hear about their craft (today there was a spinner, a blacksmith, a broom-maker, and a weaver). They did have a lot of things for sale and offered Christmas cookies and cocoa to their guests, so I suppose that is where the Nineteeth Century Christmas came from. At any rate, it was fun and we got to watch the blacksmith make a metal candle holder from start to finish. We really enjoyed wandering around the grounds looking into the different artisan spaces, houses, gardens, and church. It really is a lovely place!
2 comments:
My children would love to visit a place like that!
I love going to historic villages, it would have been nice if they did incorporate the holidays!!
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