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The Elmbrook Historical Society is a non-profit educational organization whose purpose is to research the history of Brookfield and Elm Grove and to collect, preserve, and exhibit objects from our past.

 

Thank you! Thank You! Thank You!

to all who helped make

2011 "A Celtic Christmas at the Inn" a success!


The Elmbrook Historical Society

invites you to

2012 "Christmas at the Inn"

 

Saturday, December 1, 2012

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Sunday December 2, 2012

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

 

Dousman Stagecoach Inn Museum

 

Mark your calendars now and plan to attend!

More details about this very special event will be announced shortly!


Photo Gallery 

 

2011 "A Celtic Christmas at the Inn"

Robert McWilliams plays bagpipes in the Ballroom.
Robert McWilliam, dressed in a traditional Scottish kilt, plays his bagpipes in the ballroom of the Dousman Stagecoach Inn Museum.
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A wonderful selection of silent auction items is set up in thr tap Room for visitors to bid on. Yje Ladies parlor is decotated with a Victorian English display

A  wonderful selection of silent auction items

fill the Tap Room for visitor's to bid on.

The Ladies Parlor is filled with a

Victorian English display.

Thomas Rowe and Allice Lundstrom bring display about Conwall and Corcish customs. The diining room is set u for a Cornish Christmas.
Thomas Rowe and Alice Lundstrom brought an exhibit about Cornall  to display at the Inn.

The dining room table is set for a

Cornish Christmas.

Master bedroom decorated with an Irish theme.
A bedoom displays Irish mementos.

The master bedroom is decorated with

an Irish theme.

A bedroom displays Scottish mementos.
Susan Stealey tells visitors about wesh christmas customs.

Another bedroom deciorated for the Holidays

Susan Stealey tells visitors about

Welsh Christmas customs.

Another bedroom is decorated for the Holidays!

 

Children making crafts at A Celtic Christmas at the Inn
Father Christmas greess Laurel Mellone and           at A Celtic Christmas at the Inn

Barbara Schaefer helps children make a

simple Christmas craft.

Father Christmas greets Laurel Mellone, chairman of the "A Celtic Christmas at the Inn" and

Santa decorates the hall at the Dousman Stagecoach Inn.
A wonderful assortment ofdelicious  homemade baked goods made by Elmbrook Historical Society members .were sold.

Santa decorates the hall at the

2011 "Celtic Christmas at the Inn."

A wonderful assortment of delicious homemade baked goods were sold at

" A Celtic Christmas at the Inn.".

 


2010 Christmas at the Inn - A German Christmas

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    Sampling of nutcracker collection

    A sampling of the nutcracker collection which was on display at the Dousman Stagecoach Inn Museum during the Christmas at the Inn holiday celebration

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    Bavaria - Parlor

    A Sister from the School Sisters of Notre Dame explains some of the ornaments which are unique to Bavaria.

    Pomerania - Dining Room

    Bill Vaitl of the Pommerscher Verein Freidstadt looks at a feathered tree decorated with antique ornaments.

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    Bedroom decorations

    were provided by the City of Brookfield's sister city -

    Seligenstadt, Germany.

    Bedroom - Swabia

    Decorated by the Danube Cultural Society of SE Wisconsin

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    Hesse

    The Hired Hands Room was decorated by the Hessischer Verein

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    Joyce Griepentrog and Barbara

    Vait, who are members of the Pommerscher Verein Freistadt, demonstrate how to make Pomeranian Advent Rose Lights

    Gail Tewes shows visitors how to

    make Moravian stars while Elaine Kraft makes an Advent Rose Light.

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    Peg and Hans Mueller, wearing authentic Bavarian Trach,  entertain visitors while playing the button box accordian and the wooden spoons.

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    Elmbrook Historical Society volunteers arrange cookies and other treats at the Bake Sale.

    Delicious cookies, breads and candies

    were sold at the Christmas at the Inn

    holiday celebration.

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    Tim Stemper and Pam Duronio

    entertain visitors at the Dousman Stagecoach Inn Museum during

    the Christmas at the Inn holiday celebration.

    Visitors were able to bid on a variety of Silent Auction items at the Christmas at the Inn holiday celebration.

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    Elmbrook Historical Society volunteers Megan Elliot and Michaela Ferrante help decorate a Christmas tree at the Dousman Stagecoach Inn Museum.
    Christmas tree with German ornaments decorates the ballroom of the Dousman Stagecoach Inn Museum.

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