Pioneer Christmas in Kentucky

"And when the snow falls softly on the meadow,
 and the trees are trimmed in mistletoe,
I'll keep a home fire burning for you brightly,
 invite you in and keep you from the cold."

"Pioneer Christmas in Kentucky"  2009

         Friday December 11, Saturday December 12,       Sunday December 13

Seating is at 6:30 p.m.

Menu:  Winter relishes;  Wassail;   Mammy Lou's Spoon bread;  Pumpkin or Vegetable beef soup, Roasted chicken; Baked apple with walnuts, raisins, Bourbon;               Stuffed potato;  Kentucky Jam cakes 

Story:  Christmas 1788,  Milford.

"Pioneer Christmas" is an 18^th Century evening with dinner and musical drama portraying the early settlers of Kentucky celebrating Christmas and was performed at Fort Boonesborough for eight years by White Oak Pond Church of Richmond and the Kentucky Department of Parks.

Now "Pioneer Christmas" is set in the lost town of Milford, Madison County's first county seat. Both towns of Boonesborough and Milford disappeared over the years.

Milford was chosen as county seat of Madison in 1786, by Virginia governor Patrick Henry. The county seat was moved to Magistrate John Miller's barn in 1798 and became Richmond, but the move went against the wishes of many in the town of Milford. Supposedly a band of 300 men on horseback from Milford road up to Miller's farm in protest and a bloody fist fight commenced between a representative of Richmond and one of Milford. Richmond won the fight which only confirmed for the people of Milford the decision that had already been made by the new Kentucky Legislature.

"Pioneer Christmas in Kentucky" will be held in the White Oak Pond Church at the corner of Goggins Lane and Barnes Mill Road, Richmond, which was the Milford Meeting House, a log church disassembled later in 1869 and built into the brick structure there today. Goggins Lane was the original I75 highway from Boonesborough through Milford and Paintlick to Stanford and the South.

Tickets go on sale September 1, 2009  and are by reservations only:            859 623-6515  All tickets are $25.00, and nonrefundable.