God Rest Ye Scary Gentlemen: The Jolly Misanthrope and Victorian Christmas. Learn about the happiest time of the year, and the old men who love nothing better than to shit all over it. From Scrooge to Sherlock Holmes, what’s with confirmed bachelors and Christmas? An irreverent and illuminating romp through 19th Century Victorian Christmas, its origins in older traditions, Oliver Cromwell, how it became an institution worldwide, and how one cantankerous old man really ties the whole thing together! This lecture will be a rollicking and intellectual hour and thirty minutes WITH a ten minute bathroom break. Bring your humbugs, we’ll be breaking out the turkey dinners and coals! Ninety minutes of holiday cheer.
65 per person Refer a crowd (more than four people) and you’ll all get in for 50 each.
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