NEWBURYPORT — The Museum of Old Newbury is welcoming the public to the 1808 Cushing House in all its holiday finery on Saturday, Dec. 2, and Sunday, Dec. 3, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Guests will enjoy exquisite decorations, festive music and the company of friends and neighbors for two days of walk-through tours.
The grand 1808 Cushing House, a National Historic Landmark, is considered a perfect space to highlight the talents of area garden clubs and decorators including volunteers from the Newburyport Garden Club, Newburyport Horticultural Society, Newbury Garden Club, and West Newbury Garden Club.
On Dec 2, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and again on Dec. 3, from noon to 3 p.m., traditional music group O’Carolan Etc. will perform music that would have been familiar to the earliest residents of this house.
Free to members of the Museum of Newbury and residents of “Old Newbury” (Newbury, West Newbury, Newburyport and Byfield) to thank the community for their support. $10 for general admission. Donations gratefully appreciated. Please visit www.newburyhistory.org/calendar to register.
Local author and historian Ghlee Woodworth will be selling and signing her books, “Tiptoe Through the Tombstones” and “Clipper Heritage Trail, Volume I and Volume II” on Dec. 2, from noon to 2, and Sunday from 10 a.m. to noon. Museum of Old Newbury hats, books, and copies of signed books by Bethany Groff Dorau, “Brief History of Old Newbury” and “A Newburyport Marine,” will also be available.
The Museum of Old Newbury preserves and interprets the history of “Old Newbury,” including Newbury, Newburyport and West Newbury from before European settlement to the present. Founded in 1877, the museum carries out its mission through the preservation and administration of the Cushing House, the Perkins Engraving Plant, and other historic structures on its High Street campus and furthers its purpose through lectures, exhibitions, educational programs, publications, and research.
To learn more, visit www.NewburyHistory.org.