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Wade House historic site in Greenbush will host "A Wade House
 | | Guests to "A Wade House Christmas" will experience the sights and sounds of an 1860s Wisconsin Christmas celebration. |
Christmas," a mid-19th-century Christmas celebration, on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 6-7, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Yankee and German holiday traditions, including period crafts and games for young and old, and horse-drawn wagon rides, will make for a memorable experience.
Guests to "A Wade House Christmas" will experience the sights and sounds of an 1860s Wisconsin Christmas celebration. The Wade House stagecoach hotel will be decorated in traditional Christmas splendor with fresh evergreen garlands and a candlelit Christmas tree as focal points.
Activities will abound on each level of the 27-room hotel. The experience will begin on the first floor. Costumed staff will greet visitors inside the historic tap room and shed light on the origins of Santa Claus and his gift-giving tradition. The ladies' parlor will be graced with a freshly cut Christmas tree adorned in 1860s fashion, and the space will resound with period music.
In the hotel's dining room, visitors will create holiday crafts once featured in "Godey's Lady's Book." In the third-floor ballroom, participants will have the opportunity to play parlor games.
The delightful aroma of mulled cider and plum pudding will waft out from the hotel's 19th-century kitchens and entice guests to these culinary spaces where they'll learn about the longstanding association of plum pudding with the Christmas season.
The festivities continue in the new Wade House Visitor Center and Wesley W. Jung Carriage Museum, where seasonal décor, live music and live theatre will help to spread holiday cheer. On both days, food and
 | | Sheboygan North High School's Northern Lights will entertain guests with traditional Christmas carols. |
beverages will be available at the Butternut Café, and live music will entertain guests. Musical groups scheduled to perform include: Sound Celebration Women's Chorus, Kohler High School's Madrigal Singers, Sheboygan North High School's Northern Lights and Sheboygan North High School's Holiday Strings Chamber Orchestra.
Each day, The Christmas Books of Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life and The Haunted Man - will be brought to life by local actor Dirk Milsted. On Saturday and Sunday from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in the Wesley W. Jung Carriage
 | | On Saturday and Sunday, Dirk Milsted will perform a one man adaptation of A Christmas Carol. |
Museum, Milsted will portray Charles Dickens and delight audiences with passages from Dickens' Christmas Books. At 4 p.m. each day, Milsted will perform a one man adaptation of A Christmas Carol. Visitors will get the chance to join the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future as they lead the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge on a journey of transformation and redemption.
Support for "A Wade House Christmas" comes from C.D. Smith Construction Services and Wilson Mutual Insurance Company. Generous sponsors like these help bring history to life at Wade House.
Visitors will begin the special experience at the new Wade House Visitor Center and Wesley W. Jung Carriage Museum located at W7965 State Highway 23. Admission is as follows: adults $11; students/seniors $9.25; children (5-17) $5.50; family (up to two adults and two or more dependent children 5-17) - $30.
The Wade House historic site is one of 12 Wisconsin Historical Society historic sites and museums. For more information, please call 920-526-3271 or visit www.wadehouse.org
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 | | Guests will enjoy a horse-drawn wagon ride through Wade House grounds. |
 | | North High School's Holiday Strings Chamber Orchestra will help spread holiday cheer. |
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