24th Annual Colonial Holiday Concerts

[Steenrapie]

24th Annual Colonial Holiday Concerts

Saturdays, December 15 and 22 at 7 & 8:30 PM
Sundays, December 16 and 23 at 6 & 7:30 PM
Campbell-Christie House, Historic New Bridge Landing, 1201 Main Street, River Edge, NJ 07661
(201) 343-9492

Magical holiday entertainment in 18th century setting features Linda Russell & Companie on hammered dulcimer. Concerts held in restored tavern in Campbell-Christie House with seating limited to 20 people per show. Visit a working Jersey Dutch Out Kitchen for open-hearth cooking demonstration and enjoy hot mulled cider. Not suitable for small children. Gift shop available.

Limited to 20 per show. Reservations available (201-262-2011). Donation: $25 ($23 for BCHS members). Any available tickets sold at door, first come, first served.
For reservations, send check with 1st & 2nd choice of time & date & a SASE to BCHS Colonial Christmas, PO Box 55, River Edge, NJ 07661.

 

Or use Paypal http://www.bergencountyhistory.org/Pages/BCHSHolidayCart07.html

We have just returned (at 3:00 PM Sunday, December 16) from the Campbell-Christie House and we have shoveled the walks. The former Pizza Town Lot and the Campbell-Christie House lot have been plowed. The high tide flooded the Steuben House lot at around 2 PM but low tide is due at 8:36 PM.


Start your holiday tradition. Order now!

[DPowell]

People always tell me how these events always put the spirit back in the holiday for them.

There are tickets available for the 24th Annual Colonial Holiday Concerts.
http://www.bergencountyhistory.org/Pages/BCHSHolidayCart07.html

[DPowell]

Steenrapie posted a lovely article on Christmas under Saint Nicholas Day.

Vrolyk Kersdag! Each room with ivy leaves is dressed and every post with holly!
When day is brief and night's tide rises under a cold moon, a mist clouds the Hackensack River. At an oxbow in the stream, New Bridge spans the rush of tide and time. Through its iron trusses, watching winter dusk, we see street lamps and the streamers of head and tail lights ring the leafless horizon like an incandescent necklace around this fragment of the Jersey Dutch countryside....

http://bergencountyhistory.org/forums/index.php/topic,188.0.html

[DPowell]

We'll have Clear Toy candies for sale at the concerts.
For more info on Clear Toy candies:
http://bergencountyhistory.org/forums/index.php/topic,235.msg441.html

[DPowell]

I'm told this is the only working sandstone out-kitchen on the east coast. For your interest, two reenactors will be cooking in a walk-in fireplace on the 22 and 23rd of Dec.

[Steenrapie]

I want to thank all our volunteers, Linda Russell & Companie, and our guests, who, despite the elements, made for a successful and enjoyable season. See you next year for the Silver Anniversary!