ELEBRATE INDEPENDENCE DAY VICTORIAN STYLE
16th Annual Old Style Independence Day Ice Cream Social

Heritage House Ice Cream Social
Riverside Metropolitan Museum’s Heritage House
Sunday, June 28, 2009
12:00 - 4:00 pm
Free and open to the public
8193 Magnolia Avenue
Riverside, CA 92504
(951) 826-5273

This is not your ordinary Ice Cream Social! All ages will enjoy this free community event which features ice cream, homemade lemonade, and musical entertainment as one may have celebrated in Victorian Riverside during the 1890s. Guests will have the opportunity to play authentic Victorian games, watch a live blacksmith in action, learn how old-fashioned hand cranked ice cream is made, operate a citrus sizer, and watch a special patriotic program by the Sons of the American Revolution that will include: musket firing, cotillion dance, and a parade through the grounds, all in revolutionary-war era costumes. Musical entertainment will include bagpipes, dulcimer, piano, vocal performances, and of course a barbershop quartet!

Heritage House General Information Heritage House Hours: Open Friday 12 – 3 pm; Saturday and Sunday 12 – 3:30 pm; closed July and August.  School and Group Tours are available upon request. 

Built in 1891, the Heritage House is a fully restored Victorian house that serves as a public museum to reflect lifestyle in Riverside during the 1890s. The house features period furnishings, barn, carriage house, gift shop with Victorian goods, and a beautiful heirloom garden.