Sutter's Fort SHP -- Hands-on-History -- A Simple Emigrant Christmas & Candlelight Tours -- December 8, 2012
Park: Sutter's Fort SHP
What: Hands on History: A Simple Emigrant Christmas & Candlelight Tours -- Two Events in One Day!
Where: Sutter's Fort State Historic Park 2701 L Street, Sacramento
When: Saturday, December 8, 2012
Time: A Simple Emigrant Christmas -- 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Candlelight Tours -- 6:30 to 9 p.m.
Cost: A Simple Emigrant Christmas -- $7 per adult, $5 per youth (ages 6-17), free for children 5 years and under; Candlelight Tours -- $17 per person
For Info: Call 916-445-4422 or visit www.suttersfort.org
To help get Fort visitors in a festive holiday spirit, Sutter's Fort State Historic Park (SHP) has two interactive and fun "Hands on History" events scheduled on one very special day in December! Throughout the day, Fort visitors will step back in time to holidays past with festive, hands-on activities such as dipping candles, making cornhusk dolls and crafting holiday ornaments as part of special "A Simple Emigrant Christmas" activities. Friends and families are encouraged to visit the Fort to enjoy docents in period attire as they interpret and demonstrate a variety of early holiday traditions and cultural activities similar to what early emigrants did in the 1840s. Then, when darkness falls and lends a bit of mystery to the Fort, guests will see Sutter's Fort in a new light -- by candlelight! Providing an alluring new perspective for visitors, Sutter's Fort offers evening tours by candlelight. Guides will lead small groups of visitors into the Fort's more intimate rooms for intriguing glimpses into the private lives of those who uprooted their families for a better life in early California. Fort visitors will overhear conversations such as families discussing opportunity or possible devastation in their new homes, husbands debating with wives, mothers re-assuring their children about life in rough and tumble Sacramento, tradesmen negotiating business, all surrounded by the night sky allowing visitors to travel back in time as city lights fade from view. Don't miss the two "Hands on History" events happening at Sutter's Fort SHP on one special day in December. For more information please call 916-445-4422 or visit www.suttersfort.org.
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