The evening's pleasures will include Christmas carols and songs of peace by Paula Bourne, a short concert on Andrew Wylie's forte piano by Sophia Travis, and a dramatic reading of Shakespeare's Psalms and Sonnets by Jay Lee. A graceful way to usher in the season. Carolina's Christmas Concert. On Saturday, December 12, at 6 pm, Carolina Rodriguez and friends from the Early Music Institute will present a program of Italian music from the middle ages to the Baroque. If you've never had the pleasure of hearing chamber music performed in this intimate setting, here is a perfect opportunity.
Admission is free.
This winter the front hall of Wylie House will be furnished with authentic ingrain carpeting, thanks to members of the Collo-quium for Women of Indiana University. The wool carpet is being woven for us in a period pattern on historic jacquard looms by Family Heirloom Weavers of Red Lion, Pennsylvania, makers of reproduction carpets for many historic house museums, including Lincoln's home in Springfield, Illinois. Ingrain carpets closely resemble coverlets in their patterns, for they were woven on the same looms. Pile carpets such as Brussels and Wilton were expensive and uncommon in all but the wealthiest homes. Indeed the 1859 inventory of Wylie House lists carpet for most rooms, including the front hall.