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The
Charlotte Museum of History invites you to a Twelfth Night celebration.
Twelfth Night is a Roman Catholic tradition, honoring the Three Wise Men’s
arrival to Jerusalem. This annual Museum event is Saturday, January 6,
6:30-8:30 p.m.
At 6:45
p.m. visitors will gather around a bonfire for the ceremonial laying of the
Yule log, followed by storytelling of Twelfth Night history and singing of
Colonial holiday carols. Guests can “cast their cares away” in a traditional
holly toss, and also enjoy open-house tours of the 1774 Hezekiah Alexander
House, colonial crafts and a cooking demonstration by the Historical Cooking
Guild of the Catawba Valley.
The
Twelfth Night Ball kicks off in the Museum at 7:15 p.m., and guests will
celebrate with Twelfth Night cake and cider. During the ball guests can
enjoy Twelfth Night cake, often referred to as the “Cake of the Kings.” The
Twelfth Night cake, flown in from England, is a tasty treat with traditional
marzipan frosting. Historically a bean or pea was baked inside the cake and
the person finding it received the title of King or Queen of the ball.
Visitors at this year’s Twelfth Night can also look forward to finding a
trinket buried in the Museum’s Twelfth Night cake.
“As we
celebrate Twelfth Night at the Hezekiah Alexander House, we will be
attempting to recreate a celebration from our past. Its richness will be not
in our historical accuracy, perhaps, but rather in honoring the traditions
that warmed the hearts of our ancestors and renewing the spirit of those who
remain a part of us even today,” says Nancy Follette, Docent at the Hezekiah
Alexander Homesite.
Reservations are required and the cost is $5 Museum members, $7 non-members.
Reserve tickets to this annually sold out event by calling the Museum at
704-568-1774 or emailing info@charlottemuseum.org. |