Holiday Events at Cincinnatis National Park Site

Date: August 22, 2011

News Release

William Howard Taft National Historic Site

Contact: Ray Henderson
Phone: [phone]
Date: August 22, 2011

HOLIDAY EVENTS AT CINCINNATI'S NATIONAL PARK SITE

William Howard Taft National Historic Site will celebrate a Victorian Christmas with free events starting the day after Thanksgiving and into early January 2012. The house where William Howard Taft was born and grew up will be decorated to reflect the mid-Victorian period from November 25 through January 2, 2012.

On Saturday December 17, children are invited to stop at the site from 11:00 am - 3:30 pm. During this time children can learn about the traditions of Christmas and make holiday crafts to take home. Father Christmas will also visit the site and children will receive a free photograph taken with him. The program is free and open to the public.

The celebration will culminate on January 31 when the Friends of the William Howard Taft Birthplace sponsor the annual New Year's Open House. From 1-4 p.m., the public is invited to visit the house and enjoy holiday refreshments, just as the guests to the Taft house would have done in the 1850's at the birthplace of the nation's 27th President. William Howard Taft National Historic Site is located at 2038 Auburn Avenue and is open daily from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., but will be closed on Christmas and New Year's Days.