Historical Society Candlelight Walk at Stacy's Tavern

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Celebrate a Pioneer Christmas at Stacy's Tavern Museum:
Friday, November 25, from 6:30 to 8:30 P.M., Stacy's Tavern Museum at 557 Geneva Road will become an interactive Pioneer experience for guests who visit during the Glen Ellyn Holiday Walk.  Each room on the first floor of the museum will have activities that will engage the visitor in the celebration of a Pioneer Christmas.
Guests will be guided to the museum from Stacy's Corners Store at 800 N. Main Street, where the hosts and hostesses will arrange them into groups.  They will be led to the front door of Stacy's Tavern and turned over to Joanna Stacy, wife of Moses Stacy, the innkeeper.  The parlor is the area for discovering the similarities between Pioneer celebrations at Christmas and the German traditions which were absorbed into the American celebration.  On to the Tap Room where everyone can get  acquainted with some card sharks who are spending the night before they go on to more populated towns and test their gambling skills..  

The kitchen cookie baking will be in full swing and the wonderful sweet smells will fill the air. Guests will have the chance to try their hand at making Christmas cookies with the hired girls, Tillie and Pauline.  The end of their journey is the dining room where the school marm, Mistress Meredith, is available to sing carols and entertain with stories about her own one room schoolhouse.

The groups will be guided back to Stacy's Corners Store to enjoy refreshments before they bid farewell to take part in other Glen Ellyn Holiday Walk festivities in the downtown.