A Tryon Palace Christmas

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Splendors from Afar
A Tryon Palace Christmas

http://www.tryonpalace.org/christmas.php

Friday, November 23, 2012 - Saturday, January 5, 2013

Enjoy the sights, sounds, and scents of Christmases past and splendors from afar at Tryon Palace. Our historic sites will be celebrating the season with special programs, tours, and craft activities throughout the month. Framing these musical and mirthful events, our historic houses and the North Carolina History Center will display seasonal decorations from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Meet the Tryons at a grand masked ball, join the festivities at the Stanlys’ Twelfth Night party, explore early America’s fascination with the exotic, and immerse yourself in our festive 18th-century candlelit holiday tradition. Call Tryon Palace at 252-639-3524 or 1-800-767-1560 for more information.

Friday, November 23, 2012 - Saturday, January 5, 2013
Enjoy the sights, sounds, and scents of Christmases past and splendors from afar at Tryon Palace. Our historic sites will be celebrating the season with special programs, tours, and craft activities throughout the month. Framing these musical and mirthful events, our historic houses and the North Carolina History Center will display seasonal decorations from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Meet the Tryons at a grand masked ball, join the festivities at the Stanlys’ Twelfth Night party, explore early America’s fascination with the exotic, and immerse yourself in our festive 18th-century candlelit holiday tradition. Call Tryon Palace at 252-639-3524 or 1-800-767-1560 for more information.

Friday, November 23 - Sunday, November 25, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Friday - Saturday and 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Sunday
Festive Holiday Kick-Off Weekend
Join us as we kick off the holiday season on Thanksgiving weekend. Christmas decorations are up in the North Carolina History Center, Governor’s Palace, and in our three historic houses. Special performances, craft activities, and holiday tours officially launch us into the Christmas season.

      • Friday, November 23, 10:00a.m. – 12:00p.m.
      Downeast Dulcimers
      North Carolina History Center, Mattocks Hall
      Free Admission
      Enjoy Downeast Dulcimers as they play a variety of holiday and traditional
      Tnes on “lap” or “mountain” dulcimers while you visit the North Carolina
      History Center and shop in the Museum Store.

      • Saturday, November 24, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
      Mermaid Morrigan
      North Carolina History Center, Mattocks Hall
      Free Admission
      While you visit the North Carolina History Center and shop in the Museum
      Store, enjoy a selection of original and traditional seasonal songs
      performed by Cindy Rhodes on the hammered dulcimer.

Tuesday, December 4 & Thursday, December 6
A Celtic Christmas Concert
Featuring Jennifer Licko Carrere, Dylan Foley, and Bob Noble
Tryon Palace Performing Arts Series
Jennifer Licko Carrere, Dylan Foley, and Bob Noble perform a beautiful Celtic Christmas Concert with lively Christmas favorites in the Cullman Performance Hall at the North Carolina History Center. Be sure to get your tickets early, as last year’s concert sold out!
      Performance: 7:00 p.m., Doors and Seating 6:00 p.m.
      Tickets: $22 Adults, $18 Council of Friends Members, $10. Students
For tickets: On sale November 1, 2012. Call (252) 639-3524 or visit the North Carolina History Center ticket desk. Tickets are also available at the performances based on availability. Seating is general admission. Media sponsorship is provided by Public Radio East and the Sun Journal. Band is sponsored in part by Emerald Isle Realty and JD Technologies.

Saturdays, December 8 & 15, 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Christmas Candlelight
Tickets: $20 Adults, $10 per student
Governor Tryon cordially invites you to a grand masquerade in the Governor’s Palace. With decorations inspired by his wife, Margaret Wake Tryon’s, childhood in Bombay, India, you’ll experience firsthand early American’s fascination with cultures from afar through vivid and exotic decorations, masked characters, and historic entertainment. The evening ends with a grand illumination behind the Governor’s Palace. Tickets will be sold for specific tour time slots. To purchase tickets, contact Tryon Palace at 252-639-3524 or 1-800-767-1560.

Sunday, December 9, 3:00 p.m.
“Christmas-In-A-Shoebox”
North Carolina History Center, Cullman Performance Hall
Tickets: $6 per adult, $3 per student; included with regular admission
The Stewarts, a family of sharecroppers, reside in rural North Carolina two miles outside of Kinston. On this midday, we find them gathered in the living room of their small plank farmhouse two day before Christmas in early 1960’s. Snow is falling as they sing holiday songs. Mama and Daddy Stewart, along with their two grandchildren, are heading to town in the old pick-up truck. Left behind are six other children. Sibling bantering, an unexpected guest, a special cake, an advancing snow storm and a stranger on the muddy path make this a hilarious original family play-reminding us of a distant time no more and the true meaning of Christmas. Co-sponsored by the North Carolina Association of Black Storytellers (NCABS).

Wednesday, December 12, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Tryon’s Tales for Tots: 'Twas the Night Before Christmas
North Carolina History Center, Education Classroom
$6 per child with one accompanying adult free; additional adults $6. Included with regular admission
Ages 3-5, with parental accompaniment.
You’re never too young for history! Pre-schoolers and parents will learn about the start of many of our holiday traditions by visiting the George W. Dixon House and making a festive holiday craft that they can take home with them.
Space is limited to 20 children. To reserve your child’s spot, please call (252) 639-3524. Extra openings will be filled the day of the event on a first come, first served basis.

Saturday, December 15, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Mermaid Morrigan
North Carolina History Center, Mattocks Hall
Free Admission
While you visit the North Carolina History Center and shop in the Museum Store, enjoy a selection of original and traditional seasonal songs performed by Cindy Rhodes on the hammered dulcimer.

Saturday, January 5, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. or 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Twelfth Night with the Stanlys
$40 per adult, $35 per Council of Friend Member
Join the Stanly Family at their elegant Twelfth Night party – January 5th, 1813. The evening will begin with an historically inspired dinner followed by a Regency Twelfth Night celebration in the Stanly House complete with traditional entertainments.
Who knows? You may even be crowned King or Queen of the evening!
This event is designed for adults; reservations and prepayment required by January 3. Payments received after December 16 by credit card only.
Call 252-639-3524 to register. (Maximum enrollment: 20 per time slot, Minimum enrollment: 10)