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Victorian Christmas

It's almost time! This Sat at 3pm is our Victorian Christmas event so get your tickets and kick off the festive season in Victorian style...we will have period ornament making, Victorian mini house tour, period refreshments and lovely holiday pics or get your pic with Krampus if you like!

Step into 1884 at the Wren’s Nest! 🕯️✨ Come see what makes this 1884 Queen Anne Victorian home in Atlanta’s historic West End so special. Not only is it architecturally stunning, it also holds massive cultural significance as the home of author Joel Chandler Harris, where he recorded classic American folklore and Brer Rabbit tales. Most of the furniture, books, and belongings inside are completely original to the Harris family, offering an incredible snapshot of late 19th-century life in Atlanta. Grab your tickets for a daytime tour or check out our special seasonal events at the link in our bio! 📍 The Wren’s Nest Museum | 1050 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd SW, Atlanta, GA 30310 #WrensNest #AtlantaHistory #HistoricHomes #ThingsToDoInAtlanta #AtlantaMuseum

There’s nothing quite like a quiet morning inside The Wren's Nest. 🪺☀️ Tucked away in Atlanta’s historic West End, this 1884 Queen Anne Victorian home isn't just stunning to look at, over 95% of the furniture, books, and belongings inside are completely original. From the floorboards creaking to the original mailbox on the front porch every corner holds a piece of history. Come take a tour with us this week! #WrensNest #AtlantaHistory #HistoricHomes #ThingsToDoInAtlanta #AtlantaMuseum

Points to those who know what traditional Victorian Christmas delight this jolly gentleman's head is made out of. We won't be eating it at our Victorian soiree but we CAN promise a good time! Costumes, children and craftiness welcome (we will have ornament making, festive portraits, cookies and maybe a game or two...) Tickets on our website or search on Eventbrite. #atlchristmas #victorianhouse

I was searching for old images of the house for @ancientatlanta I found these and thought I would share them with everyone! My favorite is the one of likely Ms. Harris pictured as everyone like to be pictured...bum in the air! The last one is not of The Wren's Nest but instead is Turnwold Plantation out in Eatonton GA close to the time Joel Chandler Harris was working there. Next time you visit the Nest see if you can spot where Ms. Harris was gardening. :)

Last week we had a lovely group of students from @spelman_college on Folklore and African American Literature they were taking. They got a performance from @missluvdrop followed by a tour with the main writer of our new script, Jim Auchmutey. Great questions from the group and interesting to see our story thought their lens. Thanks for coming!

Recognize that front porch? That's right, we were included, thanks to @insightcultural and new Wren's Nest Board member Robert Thompson, in this recent article from @atlantamagazine. Robert is even wearing one of our shirts (yes they ARE for sale, just reach out). Nice to see our porch looking so chic, come over and sit a spell if you are in the neighborhood, a great spot for reading a book...just saying. 😉 📖 🐇 read the article here: https://bit.ly/4g6gkN5

We are OPEN again after the holiday and this Sat the amazing Deborah Strahorn will be working her storytelling magic 1pm. If you don't know which storyteller she is in the below photo, come this Sat and find out! If you DO know, you know what a great performer she is. New script, live performance and super cute merch in the gift shop, what's not to love about a visit to the Nest?

Just wrapped up our Scribes camp and had a ton of fun and some great creative outputs from our campers! Take a look at the images and check out the recently published authors. ✒️✏️🖊 https://bit.ly/3RBEbum

Today we had a visit from a very special guest who may know more about particular aspects of Brer Rabbit's history that WE do! Maia who is a student at @furmanuniversity came by to interview our museum administrator Rebekah and video tape a storytelling performance from @deborahstrahorn , one of the Kuumba Do-Tell Wren's Nest Ramblers for a class she is taking. SO much fun to talk to a young person who is such a fan of all the stories we tell. She hopes to work for Imagineering someday, maybe she will help us unlock access to Song of the South for our dream of a screening and panel discussion. Thanks Maia for being a super fan!

We got to meet @weareaambc_ Write Now Traveling Creative Writing Program last week and wanted to share it with you all. It's a free, five-month creative writing experience for students ages 8–18 across Fulton County and surrounding communities. And rather than asking families to travel to programming, they bring the programming to you — hosting weekly workshops at schools, libraries, and community centers right in the neighborhoods our students call home. Always happy to support creative writing for youth in our neighborhood. ❤️

We made the presses! Take a look at @ajccomms today, there is an article about the launch of our new tour script. There's still time to get tickets to our launch event tomorrow @2pm Hope to see you there!

Come visit us this Saturday! It’s time for Atlanta to explore history.

Our #littlefreelibrary is back in business! It had sadly toppled over but when our lovely volunteers put in the bike rack you can see peeking out behind our @littlefreelibrary they sunk a new pole in cement so the weight of the books won't bring disaster again! So come by and grab or add a book. We have some great ones for the young folks in there now, even chapter books... #4thofJuly reading anyone?

Nope, not Halloween, it's Krampus, a horned anthropomorphic figure who, in the Central and Eastern Alpine folkloric tradition, is said to accompany Saint Nicholas on his visits to children...also a Victorian Christmas favorite! Luckily we've kept Krampus out of our Victorian event coming up at the Nest...or have we...😉 (holiday pics with Krampus by request only) 😆

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Nope, not Halloween, it's Krampus, a horned anthropomorphic figure who, in the Central and Eastern Alpine folkloric tradition, is said to accompany Saint Nicholas on his visits to children...also a Victorian Christmas favorite!