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The 70th Anniversary Celebration of Tasha Tudor's First Book, Pumpkin Moonshine Less than a year after being founded, guests from all over the world joined the Tasha Tudor Museum for its first mission-based event. The Museum brought the old crafts to life and taught the participants the old skills of candle dipping and needlefelting. The Museum brought Tasha's unique perspective of taking joy to the event during the Marionette workshop and celebrated life as Tasha Tudor did throughout her life with a beautiful lunch and afternoon tea.

Museum board member, Winslow Tudor led the Candle dipping workshop and taught each of the three groups how to dip candles the old-fashioned way using 100% beeswax. Each person made four candles to take home.
		It is with utmost thanks that we recognize Deb and Lucia of the Meadowlark Inn in Brattleboro for not only catering a delicious lunch, which included Tasha's Corgi Cottage Soup, salad, Tasha's French Dressing, homemade bread and big slices of apple pie, but also for donating their time and food costs. Thanks to this unexpected kindness, the Tasha Tudor Museum was able to raise nearly $3000.


Kathleen volunteered to bring her considerable craftiness to the Museum's first event and teach attendees the art of needlefelting. Kathleen's family has been farming in Vermont for generations. She currently cares for a herd of Shetland Sheep who gave up their wool for Kathleen to dye for the workshop. A peace settled over the room in each workshop as the guests worked away each making their own 'Pumpkin Moonshine' to take home.


The main characters from Tasha's Pumpkin Moonshine book, Sylvie Ann and her dog Wiggy were able to attend the event thanks to Marjorie Tudor who made them especially for the 70th Anniversary Celebration. Guest watched a presentation about how marionettes are made before learning how to manipulate them. Each group practiced and rehearsed one third of the book. This play then opened its possible Broadway run at the Colonel Williams Inn following the traditional afternoon tea.
Tasha's Welsh Breakfast Tea was served in antique teapots and teacups and accompanied by pineapple upside down cake, thumbprint jam cookies and Dady's Brownies (all recipes from Tasha's Cookbook.) To quote a guest "The tea refreshed us and we were off to perform the puppet show. That went well and was the perfect end to a pretty perfect day!" Special thanks to all of the people who made this event possible and turned it into a successful fundraising event; Winslow and Marjorie Tudor, Kathleen of Maybelle Farm, Deb and Lucia of Meadowlark Inn, Nancie and John of the Colonel Williams Inn who charged very little to use their facilities. Very special thanks to the expeditious volunteers who worked away in the kitchen most of the day; Natalie, Jenna and Kate. Thanks to Benjamin Tudor for volunteering to take photos of the event and to the Museum Intern, Leigh for assisting Marjorie during the marionette workshop. Thanks to Tasha Tudor and Family Inc. for donating all profits from the booth sales throughout the day.