Each year the Dana-Thomas House celebrates the holiday season in the grand manner of Mrs. Dana. The house is beautifully decorated and live music is performed on Saturday and Sunday afternoons in December. Evening tours are available on three special days to enjoy the house and art glass under different lighting. Special activities include Children’s Story Hour in the Library, Family Night and Luminaria Sunday when 1000 candles in paper sacks line the ledges and walkways around the house.

Holiday Schedule - 2008

November 27 - Site Closed for Thanksgiving
November 28-30 - Site open regular hours 9 AM- 4 PM
December 3 - First Day House is fully decorated for holidays.
December 5 - Foundation Membership Reception 5:30-7:30 PM (Admission fee & advance reservations required) 217.788.9452
December 19 - Family Night, $2 suggested donation for everyone, 4-8 PM
December 20 - Evening Holiday Tours 4-8 PM
December 21 - Luminaria Sunday 4-8 PM
December 25 - Site Closed for Holiday
December 31 - Site open for tours 9 AM-3 PM
January 1, 2009 - Site Closed for Holiday
January 2 - Children’s Story Hour Day, 9:30 AM, 11:30 AM & 1:30 PM, (Reservations required for Story Hour 217.782-6776), Holidays tours of the site available all day
January 4 - Final day of Holiday Decorations
January 5-9, 2009 - Site Closed for cleaning, reopening January 10

May 17 - 1-3 PM Book signing with author Melinda McDonald
May 26 - Open for Memorial Day
June 22 - 1-3 PM Ice Cream Social
July 4 - Open for Fourth of July
July 26 - Jazz in Bloom
September 1 - Open for Labor Day
September 18 - Foundation Annual Meeting
October 12 - Susan Dana Birthday