Day 2: Hanging the Greens

Once again, the Club gathered on December 4 at Crane House for the annual decorating party. This year, we were much more careful about ensuring the decorations would be in keeping with the times that the house was in use, from its first days as a fancy farmhouse built in 1796 to its new life when, in 1920, African American women in the community bought the home as headquarters for a YWCA, a segregated space. Thank you, Karen Fricke, for your extensive research into historical decoration (shown here) as well as your astonishing creation of a feather Christmas tree. See the gallery, below, for scenes from this beloved event.