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Event Joins Six-Week ‘Christmas Round Bardstown’ Celebration
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My Old KY
Home ‘Christmas with the Rowans’ makes 26 events for 2015 season
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Bardstown,
KY – November 2015 / Newsmaker Alert / The Most Beautiful Small Town
in America celebrates the most wonderful time of the year as only a small
town can: with lots of hometown holiday fun, including parade, tree lightings,
candlelight tours, train rides and more. Make merry in Bardstown, KY, with
26 different holiday activities and events held over a six-week period,
including a new event at My Old Kentucky Home, during Christmas Round Bardstown.
See Bardstown’s Calendar
of Events for dates and details.
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 No
place like home for the holidays
This
year, My Old Kentucky Home will present “Christmas with the Rowans,” a
special candlelight tour featuring a live interpretation of the family
that once lived in Federal Hill mansion. Taking place 5:30-8:30 p.m. on
Dec. 4 and 5, the tours introduce guests to the Rowans and their life here
during the Christmas season.
Bardstown
will hold its annual Christmas Tour of Homes 2-9 p.m. on Dec. 12. Tour
privately owned decorated homes (both old and new) as well as Federal Hill
where guests will tour by candlelight. Candlelight tours with elegantly
dressed guides will also be offered at My Old Kentucky Home on Nov. 27
and 28 and Dec. 11-12. A Christmas Tea will be held at another Bardstown
home when historical figure Mrs. Julia Beckham hosts a Victorian Tea at
Wickland, Home of Three Governors at 12 p.m. Dec. 12 and 4 p.m. Dec. 13.
May
your days be merry and bright
PNC
Bank’s Light Up Bardstown takes place 6-8 p.m. Nov. 27 at the Welcome Center
Plaza. On the same evening, Barton 1792 Distillery presents Making Spirits
Bright by Lantern Light, 7-9 p.m. And on Dec. 5 and 12, Maker’s Mark Distillery
offers Candlelight Tours through a charming 1850s Victorian village.
Don’t
miss the annual Bardstown-Nelson County Christmas Parade, a spectacular
celebration that takes place at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 3. Even before
the parade takes place, Santa Claus will be making visits to Court Square,
Saturdays beginning Nov. 28 through Dec. 19.
Several
open houses will add to the merriment: My Old Kentucky Home State Park
Gift Shop Open House, Nov. 20-21; The Gallery on the Square Open House,
Nov. 27; Holiday Open House, Downtown, Dec. 11.
Dashing
through the snow
All
aboard for the Kentucky Railway Museum’s (KRM) North Pole Express, Friday-Sunday,
Dec. 4-20, and on Monday, Dec. 21, featuring cookies and hot chocolate.
KRM will also have a Santa Express every Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 5-20,
and on Monday, Dec. 21.
My
Old Kentucky Dinner Train hosts its popular North Pole Express, Saturdays,
Dec. 5, 12 and 19, and Sundays, Dec. 6, 13 and 20. Children can make crafts
and watch a movie in the depot before boarding the train, where Santa Claus
will join everyone. Ring in the new year aboard a two-hour New Year’s Eve
excursion on Dec. 31. (Reservations required.)
Shopping
round Bardstown
Bring
your holiday gift list for one-of-a-kind Christmas shopping, Bardstown-style.
With more than two dozen independently-owned shops and boutiques crowding
Court Square, easy-to-get-to and one-of-a-kind museums with equally unique
gift shops, and six distilleries – each with a gift shop as distinctive
as the bourbon they produce – you can stroll and browse and buy the perfect
gift for everyone on your list.
Where
sugarplums dance
There
is enough holiday activity in Bardstown to fill a weekend getaway. Book
one of Bardstown’s 17 bed and breakfast inns, including the Jailer’s Inn,
which hosts a Dec. 3 holiday Open House; Beautiful Dreamer, which overlooks
My Old Kentucky Home; and Bourbon Manor, a 10-room inn with bourbon-inspired
full country gourmet breakfasts and a Bourbon Bar, called The Bunghole,
serving tapas and dessert.
See
all the holiday events planned during “Christmas Round Bardstown” here.
Book your overnight stay as soon as possible as Bardstown’s hotels and
inns fill up quickly for this six-week long celebration. For more information,
contact the Bardstown-Nelson County Tourist & Convention Commission
at 800-638-4877, www.VisitBardstown.com.
Media
Contact:
Dawn
Przystal, Vice President, 800-638-4877 x 114
Bardstown-Nelson
County Tourist & Convention Commission
Photo:
Enjoy more than two dozen events during Christmas Round Bardstown.
Credit:
Kentucky Railway Museum
Hi-
and Low-Res photos available.
About
Bardstown, KY
Located
in the heart of Kentucky Bourbon Country and situated at the trailhead
of the famed Kentucky Bourbon Trail®, Bardstown
is more familiarly known as the “Bourbon Capital of the World.” It is home
to six distilleries, including Barton 1792 and Willett Distillery, and
these four Kentucky Bourbon Trail® distilleries: Heaven Hill, Maker’s
Mark, Jim Beam and Four Roses’ second campus. Major attractions include
the outdoor musical, “The Stephen Foster Story,” My Old Kentucky Home State
Park, the highly regarded Civil War Museum of the Western Theatre, My Old
Kentucky Dinner Train, The Kentucky Railway Museum and Whisky Magazine’s
Visitor Attraction of the Year – the Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History.
Additionally, Bardstown has four 18-hole golf courses, three wineries,
two haunted tours and numerous religious attractions. Fodor picked Bardstown
as one of “America’s Best Small Towns” and AARP named it one of its “10
best small towns.” It led TheCultureTrip.com’s list of the “10 Most Beautiful
Towns in Kentucky” and was named the “Most Beautiful Small Town in America”
in the Rand McNally/USA Today 2012 “Best of the Road” contest. Bardstown
landed in the top 20 of “America’s Favorite Towns” by Travel + Leisure
– which also recognized it as having one of “America’s Most Beautiful Town
Squares.” In 2013, Bardstown was designated a certified Kentucky Cultural
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