Hayes Home offers unique holiday traditions

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Each year, Hayes Home Holidays features a different theme. This year, in honor of President Rutherford B. Hayes’ birthday, the tours will highlight the holiday traditions of the president, First Lady Lucy Hayes and their family.
Each year, Hayes Home Holidays features a different theme. This year, in honor of President Rutherford B. Hayes’ birthday, the tours will highlight the holiday traditions of the president, First Lady Lucy Hayes and their family.
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FREMONT – Make holiday memories by touring parts of the historic Hayes Home in the evening and discover the holiday traditions of President Rutherford and First Lady Lucy Hayes during Hayes Home Holidays tours offered on four nights in December.

This annual event will focus on the Hayes’ customs, from Christmas to their wedding anniversary on Dec. 30 to New Year's Day, as well as the holiday traditions of the later generations of the family, who lived in the home until 1965.

Hayes Presidential is featuring the president's and first lady’s holiday practices this year as part of President Hayes’ 200th birthday celebration, which is from October 2022 through October 2023.

Tours are Dec. 17; Dec. 18; Dec. 21; and Dec. 22. Tour times are 5 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 6 p.m., 6:30 p.m., 7 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.

The home will be lightly decorated for the holidays in a historically accurate manner, including a replica feather tree of the one the president and first lady had in their bedroom.

Tickets for nonmembers are $18 for adults, age 19 and older, $10 for kids 6 to 18 and free for children 5 and younger. Tickets for Hayes Presidential members are $15 for adults 19 and older, $8 for ages 6 to 18 and free for children 5 and younger.

Advance tickets are recommended and can be purchased at rbhayes.org/news/2022/08/25/general/hayes-home-holidays-experience-christmas-traditions-of-rutherford-and-lucy-hayes-family/. Tickets will be sold at the museum front desk the nights of the event, pending availability.

For those who need special accommodations for mobility or vision or hearing impairment, Hayes Presidential requests a notice of 72 hours. Please contact Kristina Smith, marketing/communications manager, at 419-332-2081, ext. 217, or ksmith@rbhayes.org. Requests received with fewer than 72 hours of notice will be handled to the best of Hayes Presidential’s ability.

Hayes Home Holidays is part of Hayes Presidential's season of holiday events, called A Presidential Christmas.

For information, call 419-332-2081, or visit rbhayes.org.

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