A COLONIAL CHRISTMAS
SPECIAL EVENT TICKET
 Jamestown Settlement & Yorktown Victory Center
Dec 1 - 31, 2011

• Visit Dec 1-31, 2011, as Jamestown Settlement & Yorktown Victory Center celebrate the holiday season during a special month-long event with traditions of 17th and 18th-century colonial Virginia.
  
  
• Special programs include holiday-themed tours at Jamestown Settlement and holiday musical entertainment (December 26-31). Learn about the English colonists' Christmas at sea and the Powhatan Indians' hospitality shown to Captain John Smith during a 1608 winter storm. The Lord of Misrule will make appearances throughout the month to entertain visitors with a colonial English tradition.
  
  
• Museums also feature gallery exhibits and outdoor re-creations of a Powhatan Indian village, three 1607 ships, and colonial fort at Jamestown Settlement, and a Continental Army encampment and 1780s farm at the Yorktown Victory Center. 
  
  
• At Jamestown Settlement, experience a special exhibition developed in cooperation with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, "The 17th Century: Gateway to the Modern World," featuring 65 artifacts from European, Asian and African cultures, beginning November 16, 2011.
  


• PLUS with every History Is Fun for the Holidays ticket purchase, receive a FREE voucher for a VIP Shopping Coupon Book at Williamsburg Premium Outlets & a Historic Yorktown Rewards Card.
  


• Visit Jamestown Settlement one day. Come to the Yorktown Victory Center the next! Seven days of unlimited admission.
  
  
  
• Adults only $20 -- Kids (ages 6-12) only $10. Save 20% on the price of individual admission.
  
  
  
• Kids under 6 are Free! Parking at both sites is Free!
  

Take hold of America’s beginnings from 1607 to 1781 with one ticket to Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory Center living-history museums, where history makes the holidays fun.  Your History is Fun for the Holidays ticket is good for unlimited admission for seven consecutive days to Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory Center. Enjoy special holiday programming with A Colonial Christmas, December 1-31. Your ticket includes a voucher for a VIP Shopping Coupon Book for Williamsburg Premium Outlets and the Historic Yorktown Rewards Card. 

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A perfect way to enjoy the holiday season with your friends and family—Visit Colonial Williamsburg’s Historic Area, the restored 18th-century colonial capital and living-history museum, exquisitely decorated for the holidays. Busch Gardens' Christmas Town features holiday traditions of Old World Europe with great attractions, live shows and unique shopping amidst two million twinkling lights, a 45-foot light-animated Christmas tree. Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory Center living-history museums, where history makes the holidays fun and daily offerings are enhanced with special holiday programs. Williamsburg Premium Outlets’ VIP Shopping Coupon Book features hundreds of dollars in savings. Attraction tickets are valid for 7 consecutive days of unlimited admission, based on operating schedules.   Parking is included at all locations.

Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center history museums offer a glimpse of 17th- and 18th-century holiday seasons during “A Colonial Christmas,” December 1- 31, 2011. Songs and sounds of holidays past will be presented with period musical entertainment December 26-31.  

At Jamestown Settlement, a holiday film and special interpretive programs compare and contrast English Christmas customs of the period with how the season may have been observed in the  early years of America’s first permanent English colony. In England, the holiday season – extending from December 25 to January 6 – was a time of merriment and feasting.

Holiday-themed tours, beginning each day at 11 a.m., 1 and 3 p.m., guide visitors through Jamestown Settlement’s re-created outdoor interpretive areas. Among the highlights, visitors will learn about the English colonists' first Christmas at sea in December 1606, and the Powhatan Indian hospitality shown to Captain John Smith's trading party in 1608 during a winter storm. Visitors can see re-created fort buildings decorated with greenery and demonstrations of fancy cooking and, during December 26-31, enjoy 17th-century holiday musical entertainment. Periodic appearances also will be made throughout the month by the Lord of Misrule, an English tradition in which the "grand captain of all mischief" and his followers progressed through town with riddles and revelry during the Christmas holiday.

Like Jamestown colonists, soldiers of the American Revolution had little opportunity for Christmas merriment. At the Yorktown Victory Center, hear accounts of Christmas and winter in military encampments during the American Revolution and glimpse holiday preparations on a 1780s farm.

Visitors to the Continental Army encampment can learn about winter camp life and hear accounts of Christmas during the war, as well as assist the quartermaster in preparing military supplies. At 11:05 a.m. and 3:05 p.m. daily, visitors can observe artillery demonstrations.

At the farm, historical interpreters will demonstrate a variety of holiday activities, including setting a farmhouse table for a holiday feast, decorating with greenery, and fancy cooking in the farm kitchen. Christmas musical entertainment of the period will be presented December 26-31.

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