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Holidays with the DuPonts

Holidays with the DuPonts

Discover how the DuPonts celebrated the season!

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Enjoy the holiday season with a trip to see how the DuPonts celebrated and learn their family cookie recipes that have been passed down through generations! Take a guided tour through the Hagley Museum, experience Winterthur’s Yuletide holiday tour, including garden tram ride and self-guided exhibition galleries, and no holiday is complete without a visit to Longwood Gardens, where more than 400,000 twinkling lights and spectacular fountain shows compose a brilliant wonderland you will surely love. As you stroll through the grounds, marvel at lights strung on nearly 40 miles of wire glowing in the trees. Large, starry snow-flakes and icicles sparkle throughout the Gardens, while the continuously performing theatre fountains present the colors of a Christmas rainbow!

 

Trip Includes: Transportation, Hagley Tour, Winterthur Tour, Recipes, Cookies, Longwood Gardens, and Taxes.

 

Driver gratuity not included.

Itinerary

7:00 AM Depart Sam’s Club, Mechanicsburg

7:30 AM Depart Weis Markets Linglestown Rd, Harrisburg

9:30 AM Arrive at Hagley Museum - Take a journey through the historic DuPont Company black powder yards and the grounds of the first du Pont family home in America. Guests will see demonstrations of our nineteenth-century machine shop, watch a water turbine bring our eight-ton iron roll mills to life, and witness a black powder explosion. On the second half of the tour, guests will visit the du Pont family home, the first office, their first garden and learn how the family lived, worked, and played at Hagley.

12:00 PM Arrive at Winterthur - Almost 60 years ago, collector and horticulturist Henry Francis DuPont (1880-1969) opened his childhood home, Winterthur, to the public. Today, Winterthur is the premier museum of American decorative arts, with an unparalleled collection of nearly 90,000 objects made or used in America between about 1640 and 1860. The collection is displayed in the magnificent 175-room house, much as it was when the du Pont family lived here, as well as in permanent and changing exhibition galleries. You will have time to grab lunch here on your own at their café.

3:30 PM Arrive at Longwood Gardens - No holiday is complete without a visit to Longwood Gardens, where more than 400,000 twinkling lights and spectacular fountain shows compose a brilliant wonderland you will surely love. As you stroll through the grounds, marvel at lights strung on nearly 40 miles of wire glowing in the trees. Large, starry snowflakes and icicles sparkle throughout the Gardens, while the continuously performing Theatre fountains present the colors of a Christmas rainbow.

7:00 PM Depart for home

9:00 PM Approximate return to Harrisburg

9:30 PM Approximate return to Mechanicsburg

Below is a list of pick-up points available on this tour.

Below is a list of pick-up points available on this tour.

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Harrisburg-Boscovs 4600 Jonestown Rd. Harrisburg, PA 17109
Park in lot closest to Colonial Rd.
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Mechanicsburg - Sams 6520 Carlisle Pike Mechanicsburg PA 17050
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