VARNER-HOGG VOLUNTEERS/HOLIDAY: Volunteer to help 
this colonial estate celebrate the winter holidays ... details 
on Passport to Texas.					(Dec 1)

Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife

Varner-Hogg Plantation invites visitors to attend the 
December open house this holiday season. Local 
volunteers deck the halls of the historic site and need 
your help in keeping the West Columbia tradition.

We have a volunteer group that has been in existence for a couple 
of decades now. They do a number of events here at the site, 
including Christmas. :08
 
Kandy Taylor-Hille, Site Manager at Varner-Hogg.

They decorate the grounds for us and they have a huge open 
house for the community. We waive fees for that day as a thank-
you and a gift to the community. We do a traditional Christmas 
as it would have been celebrated at this site in the 1850s on the 
inside of the house and then just holiday happenings all over the 
park itself. There's craftsmen who come out and demonstrate 
blacksmithing and rope making, just all sorts of different things. 
It's a lot of fun and the volunteers are a huge instigator of that 
and take care of a lot of that work for us. They help us do the 
things that we can't do with our limited staff, and so we can't 
imagine doing it without them. :35

The holiday celebration will be on December 2 from 10am 
-2pm. Refreshments, tours, period craftsman and an 
evening parade in the city will also be offered. 
 
Details about how to become a Varner-Hogg volunteer 
can be found on the Texas Parks & Wildlife website. 

That's our show for today ... with research and writing 
help from Loren Seeger ... For Texas Parks and 
Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti.


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