Fall in Love with Fall at Wade House

Greenbush – Fall is in the air at Wade House, and the historic stagecoach inn looks forward to welcoming guests for a weekend of traditional autumnal activities for the entire family. Revel in the fall season during Wade House’s “Autumn Celebration” on Saturday, October 12 and Sunday, October 13 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Guests will learn about the traditional harvest season in Wisconsin as well as early traditions of Halloween. The event includes a variety of family friendly activities including turnip and pumpkin carving, snap apple, storytelling, apple cider tasting, open-air horse-drawn wagon rides and more.

The experience will begin on the first floor of the 1850 Wade House stagecoach hotel. Costumed staff will greet visitors inside the historic tap room and share the history of how Americans adapted Irish customs to celebrate Halloween in a new and unique way.

In the hotel’s 19th-century kitchens, visitors will discover how apple peels were used to tell fortunes as well as enjoy a taste of warm apple cider. Outside on the Wade House lawn, visitors will get to carve a turnip into traditional Irish jack-o-lantern, or a pumpkin into the better-known North American lantern.

In the blacksmith shop, guests will have the opportunity to play snap apple, a traditional Halloween game. Snap apple participants will try to take a bite of an apple as it dangles in front of them.

The celebration continues in the candlelit Herrling sawmill where visitors will not only hear the rumble of an up-and-down water-powered saw but also spooky, family-friendly accounts of tales from the past.

On Saturday, October 12 only, Wade House is offering a special opportunity to travel back in time with a slow-paced stagecoach journey though the picturesque rolling landscape of the Kettle Moraine. Each ride on our replica Concord Stagecoach lasts approximately 30 minutes and includes an opportunity to meet the horses and take photos with them. There is an additional cost for Stagecoach Saturday rides and pre-registration is highly recommended.

Wade House’s Butternut Café will be open on both Saturday and Sunday serving hotdogs, sloppy joe’s and Millie’s famous Amish baked pies and pumpkin bars.

“Autumn Celebration” will take place at the Wade House Historic Site in Greenbush, WI. Visitors will begin the special experience at the Wade House Visitor Center and Wesley W. Jung Carriage Museum located at W7965 State Highway 23. Admission is as follows: adults – $15; students/seniors – $13; children (5-17) – $8; children under 5, free.

The Wade House historic site is one of 12 Wisconsin Historical Society historic sites and museums. For more information, please call (920)526-3271 or visit www.wadehouse.org

NOTE: This press release was submitted to Urban Milwaukee and was not written by an Urban Milwaukee writer. While it is believed to be reliable, Urban Milwaukee does not guarantee its accuracy or completeness.