2012 Sharlot Hall Museum

Frontier Christmas

What: Sharlot Hall Museum Annual Frontier Christmas featuring music, refreshments, cookies by a roaring fire, shopping, and living history re-enactments of holiday celebrations during Arizona’s territorial days.

When: Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, 6 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. immediately following the Courthouse Lighting

Where: Sharlot Hall Museum, 415 W. Gurley St., two blocks west of the Courthouse Plaza

Admission: $3 for Museum members; $5 for non-members, 17 and under free

The spirit of Christmas past pervades the Museum campus in the form of festive luminarias, seasonal entertainment, scrumptious homemade cookies and costumed interpreters with tales of holiday traditions from Arizona’s territorial past.

Admission gives guests access to the Museum’s finely decorated historic buildings, live seasonal music, refreshments, a Christmas tree with vintage decorations and engaging stories of Prescott’s past. Sharlot’s Timeless Treasures, the Museum gift shop in the beautiful Victorian Bashford House, will be open until 8:30 p.m. with a fascinating selection of holiday gifts.

The homemade holiday cookies will be served with hot apple cider at locations around the campus. Young carolers (led by a strict and proper school mistress) will fill the night air with holiday songs, complemented by seasonal performances in the comfort of the Blue Rose Theater.

Throughout the evening, the Museum’s costumed interpreters and hostesses will be available to regale guests with tales of past Christmas traditions and Arizona’s early history.