Step back in time to holidays past with festive, hands-on activities such as stringing popcorn and cranberries, candle dipping and crafting paper cut-out ornaments when Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park presents “Hands on History: A Simple Emigrant Christmas” on Saturday, December 10 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friends and families are encouraged to visit the Fort to enjoy docents in period attire as they interpret and demonstrate a variety of early holiday traditions and cultural activities similar to what early emigrants did in the 1840s. For instance, docents will help demonstrate and share holiday traditions from Germany, Scandinavia, Mexican California, England, and Russia. In fact, Sutter’s Fort was one of California’s early gathering places where people from around the world passed through the gates and shared differing holiday traditions, many of which are still celebrated today. Don’t miss the special “A Simple Emigrant Christmas” for one day only this December. For more information please call 916-445-4422 or visit www.parks.ca.gov/suttersfort
