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Shopper February 9, 2009
Valentines Day at Ventfort Hall Mansion and Tour guide and Board Member Kelly Blau, and other Gilded Age Museum will be a family affair on guides, will relay the romantic 19th century story of Saturday, February 14th with a variety of activities original owners, George Hale Morgan (a Valentine’s and events offered throughout the day. The fun Day baby) and Sarah Spencer Morgan (sister of begins at 1:00 p.m. when J.P. Morgan) including all are invited for free to photo courtesy of www.gildedage.org their Valentine’s Day wedding. They comthe mansion’s Great Lawn to enjoy a roaring bonfire pleted Ventfort Hall with free hot chocolate in 1893 as a summer and roasted marshmal“cottage.” Tours will also lows. include the spectacuThose choosing to lar and popular exhibit move indoors will enjoy of “Les Petites Dames a 3:00 p.m. children’s de Mode” (“The Little production of “The Ladies of Fashion”); Musical Hat” followed sixty fabulous 29-inch by a Victorian Tea for a mannequins fitted with combined ticket price. An exquisitely detailed original work of Nutshell Gilded Age costumes. Ventfort Hall in Lenox, MA Playhouse - written and Mansion tours are directed by Don Jordan $12 per person, $11 for – the show features Shmurple and her fellow clowns seniors, $10 for students, $5 for children aged 5 to singing songs from their Musical Hat, when sud17, and children under 5 are free. Reservations for denly they discover their music has been stolen. Join “The Musical Hat” and Victorian Tea are recomthem as they try to get it back, and in the process mended – admission is $12 for members, $15 for discover what music is made of. Share their advennonmembers and $6 for children and does not tures as they follow the Snoof, meet the Ductionary include tours of the house or exhibits. For further and dance with a clown. Live actors, puppets, mime, information call Ventfort Hall at 413-637-3206 or music and more - recommended for ages 3 to 9. visit www.GildedAge.org . Ventfort Hall is located at Guided tours of the mansion will also be available, 104 Walker Street in Lenox. as usual, at 10 a.m., 11 a.m., noon, 1 p.m. and 2 p.m.
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PERMIT NO. 122 PITTSFIELD, MA
Valentines Day At Ventfort Hall - A Family Celebration
Vol. 31 No. 76
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