Dickens Keepsake Tea This Weekend

Illustration and frontice page from the original publication of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

We have a few tickets left for the Dickens Keepsake Tea event scheduled for this Saturday from 2:00 to 4:00pm. at the Warren County History Center, 105 S. Broadway in downtown Lebanon (next to the Lebanon Public Library, across from The Chocolate Factory and two doors south of the Golden Lamb Inn).

The museum(History Center)  is open all day beginning at 10:00 but will close at 2:00 for the program. $10.00 will get you the Dickens program as well as tea, coffee and light refreshments including Marilyn Carter's cookies, assorted cream puffs, iced cakes, cucumber sandwiches and assorted cheeses. 

Historian Dennis Dalton and Art History Professor Michael Coyan have put together a delightful program recounting Charles Dickens travels through Ohio in the early 1840. Dickens was around 30 years old at the time and was already a huge celebrity in England as well as the United States. A Christmas Carol was published around the same time. 

The museum gift shop will be open for last minute Christmas shopping with a 20% discount on everything in the store.  Books on sale include Tales from the Innside by Fred Compton, the wonderful Lebanon Bicentennial book, Dennis Dalton's new book on Waynesville and Wayne Township and lots of American Girl doll books and mini dolls.