Cookie tour has Victorian flavor
Butler County Historical Society will host its Christmas Cookie Tour Dec. 4 in the Senator Walter Lowrie House, 123 W. Diamond St.
Cookie tour visitors will see rooms decked out in holiday finery much as they would have looked when the matriarch, Susan Sullivan, lived in the house with her son, Moses Sullivan; his wife, Louise; and their daughter, Mary, from 1880 to 1910, the High Victorian period.
Visitors for the Christmas Cookie Tour, which runs from 4 to 7 p.m., will find five rooms done up in the Victorian Christmas decorations. There will be tables containing trays of cookies in each of the rooms.
Jennifer Ford, the society’s director, said their is no admission fee for the tour, but visitors will pay $10 and get a bakery box in return.
“These are cookies baked by the staff and volunteers. There are no store-bought cookies,” Ford said.
Because of COVID considerations, gloved volunteers at each table will fill the visitors’ boxes with the cookie, fudge or candy the visitor has picked out. The society hopes to have at least 250 dozen cookies for sale.
Ford said the Christmas decorations will remain after the cookie tour and can be viewed when Lowrie House is open: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, or by appointment.
For more information about the cookie tour or to schedule a tour, call 724-283-8116.
