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	Dec 17, 2011 10:00AM to 3:00PM Festive Foods - Hearth Cooking Demonstration Join us at the Collins-Sharp House to experience the hustle and bustle of an 18th century kitchen preparing for the holiday season. Costumed interpreters will demonstrate open hearth cooking of delicious sweet and savory treats using the recipes, techniques and tools typical of Odessa’s colonial past.
	Nov 19, 2011 10:00AM to Dec 30, 2011 4:30PM 2011 Holiday School Tours Begin Please schedule your Holiday School tour during this time.
	Jul 13, 2011 3:00PM to 6:00PM Members Day At the Historic Odessa Foundation, Members make it all happen! Your membership dues support programs and site enhancements-since the Historic Odessa Foundation reincorporated in 2004, we've been busy updating the Houses, creating brand new traditions, and working year-round to elevate the Historic Houses of Odessa into a regional destination immersed in history and fun for visitors.
	Aug 10, 2011 10:00AM to Oct 30, 2011 4:30PM "Don't Be So Pushy!" Special Exhibit Discover a wonderful private collection of turn of the century baby food pushers. Often presented to the proud parents to mark the occasion of a new born, and possibly engraved with the baby’s name or monogram, these utensils were used to maneuver the baby’s first solid foods on their plate. The lump of food would then be pushed onto the baby’s spoon for feeding.
	Aug 17, 2011 5:00PM to 8:00PM Volunteer Appreciation "A Night at the Races" is this years theme for our Volunteer Apperication Party.
	Sep 16, 2011 9:00AM to 1:00PM Home School Day Home School Day Sept. 16, 2011 Education tours at 9am, 11am or 1pm Each tour is approximately 2 hours Available this fall: 18th Century Hearth Cooking, Indentured Servants, Children: Chores and Leisure, Freedom Seekers: the Odessa Story
	Oct 21, 2011 5:00PM to 9:00PM Hearth Cooked Dinner Join us for an evening of fine food, drink and merrymaking as the staff from the Historic Odessa Foundation serves a hearth cooked dinner of mouth-watering dishes using the recipes, tools and techniques of the 18th century. Savor our delicious British Punch and assorted appetizers by the fire before touring the Corbit-Sharp House by candlelight.
	Nov 10, 2011 10:30AM to Nov 12, 2011 4:30PM 2011 Storybook Trees: Decorating Days! Storybook trees particpants will decorate their trees Thursday through Saturday.
	Nov 19, 2011 10:00AM to 4:30PM Free Admission for 2011 Storybook Trees Participants Free admission for Storybook Trees particpants.
	Dec 26, 2011 10:00AM to Dec 30, 2011 4:30PM Open Daily - Holiday Exhibit Daily tours of the Holiday Exhibit.
	Nov 17, 2011 12:00AM to Dec 30, 2011 12:00AM "A Joyful Tasha Tudor Christmas" Opening Day of Holiday Exhibit Take the time this holiday season to visit the Historic Odessa Foundation’s Wilson Warner House c.
	HOF featured in "Delaware History" HOF hosted the Furniture HIstoricy Society of London for an 18th Century Hearth Cooked Luncheon on May 18th, 2011.