In the hustle and bustle of the holidays, the Greenwood Centre for Living History in Hudson, Que. is giving visitors a chance to celebrate a different kind of Christmas, one rooted in the past.
There are no flashing lights or tinsel to be found in the rooms of the historic building, part of which dates back to the 1740s.
Instead, the decorations are foraged from nature or handmade and in some cases even edible.
Kathryn Lamb, a volunteer who is on the conservation committee at the museum, said they were looking for ways to raise funds to maintain the building, and the idea of hosting an Old Fashioned Christmas came up.
“We had this beautiful locale filled with, historic and lovely artifacts, and we thought, what if we tried to decorate Greenwood for Christmas in a way that it would have been done in the early years, in the late …