2008
Special Events |
| Mansion Tours
- Ongoing starting April 2, 11:00 a.m. |
| The Mansion will open
again for tours starting on April 2 at 11:00 a.m. It
will be open every Wednesday through September for tours.
We have planned a full schedule of family oriented events
to help provide a way for more people to experience
the Dunsmuir-Hellman Estate. We hope that you can participate
in many of them. |
| May 4 –
Family First Sunday – Let’s
Celebrate |
An afternoon to celebrate
Cinco De Mayo, May Day and Arbor Day. Join us for music
and dance performances, special activities and a May
Pole Dance. We will also plant some trees in commemoration
of Arbor Days and some special people to the Estate.
The Mansion will be open for tours.
>> 11:00
a.m. – 3 p.m. You are welcome to bring a picnic
lunch. |
| May 11 –
Mother’s Day Brunch |
Honor and pamper your
Mom on Mother’s Day with an elegant brunch at
the Pavilion at the Estate. Several buffet stations
will offer all kinds of delectable savory and sweet
goodies for that special person in our lives.
>>
12:00 noon – 2:00 p.m. The cost will be $45 per
person. |
| June 1 –
Family First Sunday – Family History Day |
Come and join us in
a day of workshops on how to do your family tree, how
to care for family photographs and heirlooms, and how
to do oral histories. The Mansion will be open for tours.
>> 11:00 a.m. – 3 p.m. You are welcome
to bring a picnic lunch. |
| June 27 –
Fourth Friday Summer Nights – Movie Night:
Burnt Offerings |
 Join
us on the lawn in front of the Mansion for a picnic
supper. At dusk, we will show the movie Burnt Offerings
with Karen Black, Oliver Reed and Bette Davis. Burnt
Offerings was filmed here at Dunsmuir-Hellman and it
has become a classic 1970’s horror film. Haunted
house chiller from Dan Curtis has Oliver Reed and Karen
Black as summer caretakers moving into gothic house
with their young son. The catch? The house rejuvenates
a part of itself with each death that occurs on its
premises. The movie is rated PG-13 because of the final
scene where the main character falls face first into
a windshield of a car.
>> The gates will
open at 6:00 p.m.
>> More
about Dunsmuir in the movies... |
| July 12 &
13 – 34th Annual Scottish Highland Games |
Once again the sounds
of bagpipes and drums will fill the air here at the
Estate. The days are filled with Highland games, craft
booths, vendors, food, whisky tasting, Mansion tours,
a gathering of the clans, children’s activities,
dancing demonstrations, pipe band competitions and musical
performances. This year our musical guests are Molly’s
Revenge, Stand Easy, Joann Gilmartin and the Browne
Sisters & George Cavanaugh. The event runs from
>> 10 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. each day. Ticket
information to be posted soon. |
| July 25 –
Fourth Friday Summer Nights: Dancing in the Park |
Start with a picnic
supper on the Mansion green with some musical entertainment.
After supper, we will move to the Pavilion for some
dance lessons and then dancing for a couple of hours.
>> The gates will open at 6:00 p.m. |
| August 3 –
Family First Sunday – Living History Day |
Try your hand at several
tasks that once were a daily part of life in the late
19th and early 20th century – such as buttermaking,
washing clothes, candlemaking, etc. The Mansion will
also be open for tours. The event is from
>>
11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. You are welcome to bring
a picnic lunch. |
August 22 –
Fourth Friday Summer Nights: Movie Night –
So I Married an Axe Murderer |
 Once
again we will enjoy a movie that was filmed partially
at Dunsmuir-Hellman - So I Married An Axe Murderer
with Mike Myers and Karen Travis. Charlie MacKenzie
is a dedicated San Francisco coffeehouse poet, whose
poems revolve around his numerous failed relationships.
Every one that ends on his doing because of some weird,
inexcusable paranoia. His best friend Tony and mother
May can only criticize him for his wrong-doings. But
Charlie believes he very well may have found the perfect
woman in Harriet, a meat butcher with a heart of gold.
But Charlie begins suspecting something about Harriet
that may not be so perfect. Bring a picnic supper and
relax before the movie begins at dusk.
>>
The gates will open at 6:00 p.m.
>> More
about Dunsmuir in the movies... |
| September 7
– Family First Sunday – Let’s
Play Games |
We are not talking
about computer games! Visitors will get the chance to
try their hand at old fashioned forms of amusement,
such as hoop and stick, ball and cup, hopscotch, stilts,
etc. The Mansion will be open for tours. Bring a picnic
lunch, enjoy the grounds and learn about play in past
generations.
>> 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. |
| October 25
– Oktoberfest & Pumpkin Patch |
A family event with
old fashioned games, crafts, hay rides, pumpkin craving,
cider and doughnuts along with some suds and sausages
for the grown up crowd, and, of course, some Oom Pah
music. The event will be held in and around the Carriage
House at Covington Gate. The event will run from
>> 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Holidays at Dunsmuir
Saturdays & Sundays
December 6 - 20 |
Our 38th annual
holiday tradition with a beautifully decorated mansion,
music, entertainment, food, Breakfast with Father
Christmas, demonstrations and more. Stay tuned for
more details. |
