Photograph courtesy of Jerry Rice/Riverside Magazine, and used with permission.
Think all the Christmas celebrations are over? Think again!
Tomorrow and Saturday evening, January 4th and 5th, the Old Riverside Foundation’s offering their traditional Twelfth Night Celebration and Progressive Dinner. Guests will be picked up in horse-drawn carriages at Riverside’s historic Mission Inn Hotel, and transported to four different vintage homes for hors d’oeuvres, soup, entrees and dessert.
Of course, the featured homes will be decorated for Christmas–and there will be live music. Guests are encouraged to add to the fun by dressing in Victorian costumes or semiformal wear.
Photograph courtesy of Jerry Rice/Riverside Magazine, and used with permission.
The Old Riverside Foundation for Historic Preservation explains that Twelfth Night was a popular event in the colonies in the eighteenth century. It was a culmination: one last feast in the twelve days of Christmas celebrations that started on December 25th.
However, Twelfth Night’s popularity declined in the second half of the nineteenth century. Increased industrialization in the U.S. meant more workdays, a shorter Christmas season and a combining of the festivities of Twelfth Night and Christmas Eve.
Now, once again, the Old Riverside Foundation is bringing the spirit of hospitality and gala celebration back to life, with some of its old feel combined with some newer ideas. (For example: entree possibililities include beef, chicken and a vegetarian dish.) Limited seating is still available, and you are most cordially invited to join in the feast!