“Pioneer Christmas in Kentucky,” an 18th Century Christmas evening of dinner and musical drama portraying the early pioneers of Milford, the original county seat of Madison County, will be conducted Dec. 11-13 at White Oak Pond Church at the corner of Goggins Lane and Barnes Mill Road.
Seating begins at 6:30 p.m., and the menu includes winter relishes, wassail, Mammy Lou's spoon bread, pumpkin or vegetable beef soup, roasted chicken, baked apple with walnuts, raisins and bourbon, stuffed potato and Kentucky jam cakes.
The story is about Christmas 1788, in Milford, Madison County, Virginia. (Kentucky did not become it’s own state until 1792.)
White Oak Pond Church was the Milford Meeting House, a log church disassembled later in 1869 and built into the brick structure there today.
“Pioneer Christmas in Kentucky” was performed at Fort Boonesborough for eight years by White Oak Pond Church of Richmond and the Kentucky Department of Parks with a script that told the story of the “Hard Winter” of 1779.
Tickets are by reservations only and can be obtained by calling 623-6515. All tickets are $25 and nonrefundable.
