CITY OF ROUND TOP TO HOST CHRISTMAS AT WINDALE: NINETEENTH CENTURY FOLKLIFE
The City of Round Top will host the Christmas at Winedale: Nineteenth Century Folklife this Saturday from noon until 4 pm.
Christmas at Winedale brings the magic of earlier times and distant lands to our holiday season with its annual folklife celebration at the Winedale Historical complex outside Round Top.
Families will be able to meet a colorful Weihnachtsmann (German Santa), ride a horse and wagon, see inside a Native American’s tepee, walk through a pioneer encampment. Costumed artisans will be spinning and weaving, quilting, making pottery and lace, doing metalwork and woodwork, churning butter, blacksmithing and other activities.
There will be tours in restored 19th century houses with their painted walls and ceilings, the barns with hand-hewn log beams, and the one-room schoolhouse where children of all ages once learned to read and write.
The Celtaire String Band, Star of Texas Dulcimers and the Winedale German Singers will fill the air with music of the period.
In the theatre barn, students from the University will perform scenes from the plays of Shakespeare, and square dancers will spin and whirl as they demonstrate traditional steps.
There will be hunter’s stew or sauerkraut and sausage available for sale.
Admission is free. The food is a $5 donation.
Windale is located at 3738 FM 2714, four miles north of Round Top
For more information, call 979-278-3530, or email at windale@austin.uttexas.edu