Join Brad Stone on December 6 at 7:00 p.m. as this National Museum of Civil War Medicine volunteer recreates illustrator Thomas Nast’s 1863 Santa and discusses the celebration of Christmas during the Civil War, before it was an official holiday. Discover the surprising effect of the war on the way we celebrate the holiday season in the United States.
In-Person at Poolesville Presbyterian Church – Sanctuary
17800 Elgin Rd, Poolesville, MD
Brad Stone is a volunteer at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, MD and aboard the USS Constellation in Baltimore Harbor. Over the past few years he has developed presentations on an assortment of Civil War-related topics. His talks have been given at a wide variety of venues including the Gettysburg Heritage Center, the Antietam Battlefield National Park and the U.S. Navy Museum at the Navy Yard in Washington, DC. A couple of his talks have also been televised nationally on C-SPAN3 American History TV.