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Historical Picnic: An 1822 Croghan Family Wedding & Ball

Saturday, July 18

12 p.m. Noon – 10:00pm

$8 adults, $4 children

Ball 7:00-10:00 p.m. $12 per person (reservations suggested 897-9845)
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Citizens of Louisville and beyond, your presence is requested at the wedding of Ann Croghan & General Thomas Sidney Jesup on Saturday, July 18, 2015 at Locust Grove. Miss Croghan is the daughter of William & Lucy Croghan of Locust Grove. Genl. Jesup is lately of Washington City.

The celebration begins at noon with a historic picnic. Guests are invited to bring your own picnic foods or be supplied victuals from a vendor at Locust Grove.

You may dress in attire of any historical period from Revolutionary War to the Gilded Age or the Roaring 20s, or just come to admire those who do.

Throughout the day there will be many activities as well as tours in the 1790s house and historic clothing rarely displayed. In the afternoon, members of the Kentucky Shakespeare Company will read some of Jane Austen’s funny and little known early works.

Several vendors will be set up for shopping, and traveling dance instructor, Dr. John Gardiner-Garden of Australia, along with his wife, Aylwen, who are touring North America, will attend the wedding and call the dances at the ball. Mr. Gardiner-Garden is the leading historical dance teacher in Australia and owner of the Earthly Delights Dance Academy.

The dances to be called:

Auretti’s Dutch Skipper (2)

Comical Fellow

The Attempt

Butter’d Pease

The Czar

Duke of Kent’s Waltz

The Fairy Dance

Highland Laddie

La Boulangere

Le Carillon de Dunkerque

Russian Dance (1)

The Triumph (1)

Waltz (on a fan)

The ball will be held in the air-conditioned Audubon Auditorium in the Visitors Center. Post & Crown, a band from Cincinnati, will provide live music.

SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES

1:00 Dance workshop in auditorium

1:00 Special reading of Jane Austen’s early works by members of the Kentucky Shakespeare Company

4:00 Reenactment of the 1822 Wedding

5:00 Wedding Reception, Music, meet the bride & groom, buy or bring your own food

7:00-10:00 Ball in the air-conditioned auditorium. Dances called by traveling dance instructor John Gardiner-Garden of Australia. Advance reservation preferred, $12 per person, $6 for children.

The bride and groom have asked that in lieu of gifts, donations of $8 for adults and $4 for children to be given to Locust Grove (picnic and wedding). Children 6 years of age are not expected to present gifts. The ball is $12 per adult and $6 for children.

For more information call 502-897-9845. Thanks to the Jane Austen Society of North America- Greater Louisville Region for co-sponsoring this event.

BACKSTORY

Ann Croghan, was the daughter of William & Lucy Clark Croghan, builders of Locust Grove. She married William Sidney Jesup at Locust Grove, May 17, 1822. Jesup was a military man and held the post of quartermaster general of the United States Army for 42 years. Her father, William Croghan died the same year, Sept. 21, 1822. Little is known of the actual wedding, except this tantalizing tidbit in a letter dated May 10, 1822, “I suppose on the occasion of so great a match for Ann Croghan there will be a splendid wedding accompanied by much hustle and display.” Letter from John O’Fallon to Dennis Fitzhugh in St. Louis.

Locust Grove costumed interpreter Hannah Stoppel will be portraying Ann Croghan and making the 1822 style wedding dress. Look for information about this in upcoming posts of the Locust Grove blog or visit Hannah Stoppel’s blog for the full story.