When Christmas Traditions Bring the Victorian Age into the Twenty-first Century

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When Christmas Traditions Bring the Victorian Age into the Twenty-first Century

By Donna WichelmanRarely does a person have the chance to step into another era unless, perhaps, they are an actor on the stage. Yet, less than three weeks ago, I experienced a sense of time travel into the Victorian age at the annual Christmas at the Hamill House in Georgetown, Colorado. The event blends the traditions of the 1870s and 1970s when the Georgetown Society, now known as Historic Georgetown, Inc., first acquired William A. Hamill’s …