March 29 – 31, 2024 Included with Mansion Tours Join The Hermitage for an Easter Rat Scavenger Hunt throughout the famed mansion. Happening Easter weekend, March 29-31, this program is historically rooted in a Jackson family story that is, well, a bit unfortunate for “Little Rachel” Jackson, the granddaughter of our nation’s 7th President. After ...
March 29 – 31, 2024 Included with Mansion Tours Join The Hermitage for an Easter Rat Scavenger Hunt throughout the famed mansion. Happening Easter weekend, March 29-31, this program is historically rooted in a Jackson family story that is, well, a bit unfortunate for “Little Rachel” Jackson, the granddaughter of our nation’s 7th President. After ...
March 29 – 31, 2024 Included with Mansion Tours Join The Hermitage for an Easter Rat Scavenger Hunt throughout the famed mansion. Happening Easter weekend, March 29-31, this program is historically rooted in a Jackson family story that is, well, a bit unfortunate for “Little Rachel” Jackson, the granddaughter of our nation’s 7th President. After ...
Join Historic Garden Manager, Kimberly Cooper, for a special edition of Digging In! Rachel’s Arrangements is a historically influenced workshop allowing guests to get hands on with a special part of Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage. Rachel Jackson adored her garden and was known to gift guests a small arrangement as a token of her affection. This ...
Deck your halls with greenery from The Hermitage! Join the gardens team at Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage for one of two DIY Christmas wreath workshop as we get into the holiday spirit. Participants will have the opportunity to learn how to create a holiday-inspired wreath from our Historic Garden Manager, Kimberly Cooper, using a grapevine form ...
Get into the holiday spirit and spend time by the fireside with the beloved classic, A Christmas Carol. Performed by his great-great-grandson, Gerald Dickens, guests will enjoy a dramatic performance of Dickens’s most famous work. Using his own adaptation of Charles Dickens’s classic Christmas tale, Gerald plays more than 30 characters using his vocal and physical talents ...
Born for a Craft is a new series designed with one goal in mind: To provide historic, and historically influenced, crafty activities that attendees can take home. Join Frank Hannah, one of the talented staff members at Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage, for this Hermitage Cutting Boards Workshop. The boards are made with wood taken from the ...
Join us in the rustic Cabin-by-the-Spring on Friday, October 27, 2023, where this event will have two showings: 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Actor Neill Hartley is Ichabod Crane in an interactive one-man interpretation of Washington Irving’s horror tale about the Headless Horseman set in the sleepy world of Tarrytown, New York. See Ichabod interacting ...
Explore the haunted side of history during our Hermitage Ghost Tours! Embark upon a distinctly spooky voyage through time at Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage as you explore the mansion, grounds and cemetery by lantern light. Guides in period clothing will lead your exploration of tragedies that befell the Jackson family, unusual experiences of Andrew Jackson and ...
The Tennessee Association of Vintage Baseball plays games in different locations in Middle Tennessee from May through September. Many of these games are played at historical homes in our area. The teams all use costumes, rules and equipment modeled after what was used in the 1860's. The association was formed in 2012 with a mission to ...