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December 5 - 30.

Step back in time and enjoy Christmas at Hildene! Throughout the month, the home will be decorated to evoke Christmas Eve 1912—one of a handful of years that the Lincoln Family spent the holidays in residence at their Vermont home. 

 On weekends, the festive ambience of Hildene will be elevated with holiday music by talented artists playing on the Lincolns’ Steinway piano and Aeolian organ while you tour the home.

For more information, contact Stephanie at (802) 367-7960 or click to email.

Members Only: Friday, December 6
Open to All: Saturday & Sunday, December 7 & 8
Hours: 10:00 Am - 4:30 PM

Join us for a holiday shopping experience as we welcome members, neighbors, and friends to this beloved annual event! Enjoy 20% off your entire purchase of store merchandise—including our unique Hildene woven products—as you shop in the Lincoln family’s restored 1903 carriage barn dressed in all its holiday finery. Admission is not required to shop.

For more information, call 802-362-1788, or email: themuseumstore@hildene.org

Members, please note: The Sip & Shop originally scheduled for December 13 has been postponed to spring. We hope you will shop at your leisure on this appreciation weekend.

Saturday 9:00 AM

House for the Holidays! Join us an hour before we open to see the home beautifully decorated for the holidays! First, check-in at the Welcome Center with your membership card, then walk up the path to the house.

For more information, contact Christine at 802-367-7964 or click to email.

Saturday, 9:00 - 10:30 am, at Hildene, the Lincoln Family Home. Free 
Purple Finch

The Purple Finch has red-wine coloring covering the head and most of the body. There is little fine brown streaking on the sides of the breast. The mottled brown female Purple Finch is the most distinct of the two finch species with a white eyebrow stripe and mustache framing the wide, dark eye line. The wide line through the eye can be seen on the male “under” the wine wash on the head. The Purple Finch is more robust and the tail is more notched than that of the House Finch. The wing bars are more rose-colored. The range for the Purple Finch is more migratory moving up and down the eastern US and breeding north into Canada.

  
Meet at the Welcome Center. Appropriate for birders of all skill levels, the walks run along forest and meadow trails and around the main house. No registration required. Questions? Contact Stephanie at (802) 367-7960 or click to email. 

Sunday, 1:00 to 3:00pm. 

Gather in the greenhouse and learn to felt ornaments using a mix of roving from Hildene’s flock of Corriedale sheep and Huacaya alpaca with farm manager Kim Pinsonneault. Handmade ornaments make lovely gifts as well as cheerful decorations on holiday packages.  

Pre-registration required by Wednesday, December 4. $35 members /$40 non-members. Includes materials fee.  Limited to 15 participants. To register, contact Stephanie at (802) 367-7960 or click to email.