On a cozy December evening, seasonal carols, hearth cooking, and holiday arts and crafts bring friends and families of all ages together to Farmington's Home for the Holidays annual event.  Travel back into the 19th century as you enter the Speed family home that will be decorated with fresh greenery from the surrounding eighteen acres for the holiday season.   

The event will be held Sunday, December 7, 2008 from 4:00 until 7:00 p.m., at Farmington, 3033 Bardstown Road.   Home for the Holidays will be a cozy evening, complete with: holiday music, refreshments, crafts, historic re-enactments and more. Admission is $12.00 for adults and $4.00 for children, with a special family ticket offered for $25.00.  Tickets are all inclusive.

This year’s spotlight for Home for the Holidays is guest speaker Donna D. McCreary author of Lincoln’s Table: A President’s Culinary Journey from Cabin to Cosmopolitan.  Her lecture will focus on Lincoln’s favorite dishes from the time that he was a boy, living in Kentucky, all the way to his Presidency in the White House.  From Lincoln’s meals of cornbread and gingerbread to the elegant Whitehouse dinners with French inspired menus, participants will have a rare glimpse into the stomach of Abraham Lincoln.  The audience, through the lecture, will be able to identify with Lincoln by way of food.   Additional Activities at Home for the Holidays include:

• Arts and crafts for children including candle rolling, silhouettes, and the opportunity to decorate their own wreath and/or build their own gingerbread house
• An open-hearth cooking demonstration
• Free tours of the 1815 museum house
• Refreshments, Holiday items for sale from the Farmington Museum Shop
• Costumed re-enactors interpreting Farmington plantation life in the 1830s