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Volunteers re-create old-time holiday for weekend's Christmas at Callaway Volunteers have been busy recreating an old-time Christmas in the rooms and houses of Callaway Plantation living history museum for this weekend's annual "Christmas at Callaway" celebration. Christmas at Callaway will open Friday, December 8, from 4 to 8 p.m., all day Saturday, and Sunday from 12:30 to 3:30. "They've decorated all the rooms in the Brick House, the Log Cabin, the Country Store, the Dally Cabin, the Gilmer House and the weaving and ironing house with period decorations," Olivia Jackson said. Rooms have been decorated in period authentic style using candles, garland, and ribbons; along with cedar, holly, smilax, and magnolia foliage, and mistletoe from the woods around the Plantation. "We've had people in decorating all week, and it's quite a list," Jack- son said. "We've had the folks from the Mary Willis Library, Barbara Burns, Kathy Overstreet, Diana Smith, Tommy Russell, Meredith Attwood, Jeanne Davis Blair, and ladies from the Iris Garden Club, and from The Garden Party and from Hendricks Florist. They've been hard at work all week, along with the staff at Callaway Plantation and the co-chairmen of the event - Danielle and Sandra Mathis and Katherine and Bradley Barber." Christmas at Callaway is more than just old homes decorated for a long-ago Christmas. It portrays a historically accurate living snapshot of life in Wilkes County in the 1860s, with candlelight and fires providing the sole illumination indoors. Keys to the portrayal are the costumed docents who speak to visitors in the houses. More than just pretty girls in old-time dresses, costumed docents Amber Ware, Whitley Hodges, and Kristolyn Long take visitors back in time with their portrayal of Christmas with the Callaway family in 1869. Recreating the household skills of old, Kathy Dinnewith will weave in the weaving house with Candy Callaway, Susan Carter will spin thread, and Sandra Mathis will cook holiday dishes at the Log Cabin. "And we're going to have more old-fashion Christmas music again this year," Jackson said, "with music from Debbie Danner, Brenda Vandiver, and Mrs. Ruth Harris' piano students."
Christmas at Callaway will start Friday afternoon and end Sunday afternoon at Callaway Plantation Living History Museum on Highway 78 five miles from Washington.
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