What’s in the Whitney Library: New Haven Holidays

On Saturday, December 13, 2025, enjoy a special “What’s in the Whitney Library?” program, “New Haven Holidays.” Librarian Emma Norden will offer a glimpse of Christmas past from the Whitney Library collection from 12 to 4 p.m. Visitors will view a charming collection of holiday treasures—from handmade Christmas cards from the early 1900s to greetings from overseas soldiers during WW1. It will also include an astonishing article from the December 24, 1950, New Haven Register recounting Dickens’s 1868 Elm City reading of the “Christmas Carol,” replete with rioting crowds and a ticketing scandal so colossal that the entire appearance was rescheduled and re-ticketed.

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At 2 p.m., visitors will gather in the auditorium for a one-man performance of Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol” as performed by Michael Rose. In his 90-minute cut of the perennial holiday favorite, Rose embodies over a dozen characters, from Ebeneezer Scrooge to Tiny Tim to the three ghosts of Christmas. The performance will be on Saturday, December 13, 2025, at 2 pm., with a reception at 1:30 p.m.

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