It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas For this week's Sepia Saturday I thought I'd share photos from my visit to Old World Wisconsin. Last week a friend and I visited this historic site in Eagle, Wisconsin to see it's Christmas festivities. Old World Wisconsin is a place where they've gathered and restored buildings from the 19th Century. In December on the weekend's they're open to show visitors how Christmas was celebrated over 100 years ago. In the town's church, which was the first Catholic church in Milwaukee, visitors could sing carols. The performers read a Christmas passage from a Little House on the Prairie book. They also brought kids up from the audience and they read "The Night Before Christmas." Ready for Christmas morning. This room is set up for a cobweb party. Each guest has a color of string and they have to unravel the string to get to their Christmas gift. I wonder what other kinds of parties they had back then. This l
That's an interesting mural. I had a hard time figuring out the hair for a minute. I wanted to look at it as flat and his head was at the wrong angle. One of those figure-ground moments, I guess. :) Thanks for sharing this, SM. :)
ReplyDeleteIt is rather abstract in some respects. I too took a while to figure it all out. Thanks for hosting, Marsha.
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