2012 Calendar of Events

Afternoon Tea, 1 pm
Third Wednesday of the Month
Please join us in a Victorian afternoon delight and learn more about our organization.  If you would like to attend please contact us.

Handwork Circle, 4 to 6 pm
First Thursday of the Month
At Yarn on 2nd Ave.
Come learn a new skill, come sew the buttons on that new waist, or just join us for conversation and inspiration!

Sunday, Feb 19, 2 to 4 pm
Victorian Tea Dance
Come enjoy a soiree with your fellow Victorians.
Learn a few 19th century dances to prepare for the ball in Silverton in June.
We’ll have lovely music, pleasant company, and light refreshments.
Victorian attire encouraged, but not required.
This is another great opportunity to interest your friends in what the VAS does, so don’t hesitate to invite a few!

Thursday Mar. 1
History Judging
The VAS is glad to help our local schools during their history fair and encourage young historians.

Saturday, April 7
Repeal of Prohibition
Don your 1930's duds and join us in our annual protest of the end of prohibition at Carver's Brew Pub.

 May
Mother's Day Fashion Show
Four Corners Nursing Home
One of our favorite annual events where we share our love of Victorian styles with wonderful people.

Saturday, May 5
Pioneers on the Train
Purchase a train ticket and ride with us as
we portray pioneers of Southwest Colorado

Step Back in Time
June 1st and 2nd
Join the festivities in Silverton starting Friday morning leading up to a Victorian Ball Saturday night.
Click here for more information and to purchase ball tickets.

Saturday, Oct. 6, 10:00 am
Cowboy Gathering Parade
Join us in the celebration of our past.

Saturday, Oct. 6, 11:15 am
Annual Greenmount Cemetery Tour
No Charge
We will portray some of Durango's early pioneers, in first person, sharing their stories and life histories. 
Different people than last year! 
Donations gladly accepted for local historical societies.

 

Friday and Saturday, Nov. 30 & Dec. 1
Old Fashioned Christmas Bazaar
Animas Museum, 10 - 4
We will be caroling on Friday night in the Joy Cabin
Please join us

 

 

Event Descriptions

Cemetery Tours, 3rd Avenue Tours and Historic Downtown Tours

 

            We have made researching and respectfully portraying actual people from the past a specialty, and  we share our information and insight about them at these tours we do as educational fundraisers for the area’s museums. If you have a group of ten or more interested in a tour please contact us at least two weeks in advance of the date you would like so we may check our availability.

 

Fashion Shows:

 

            The Victorian Aid Society has done fashion shows for a number of entities in our community, including schools, churches, nonprofits and nursing homes, always with an emphasis on using them as a venue to teach the audience about the fashions of the era. We wear and describe authentically reproduced clothing to give those present a glimpse at “3-D” history. Somehow seeing and touching what could have been from our past makes it real.

 

Victorian Holidays: 

            Every year the VAS kicks off the holiday season by caroling at the area’s senior care facilities. Since Christmas, as we know and celebrate it, is a uniquely Victorian holiday, we can think of no better way to share the true spirit of the season, sharing and caring, than by raising our voices in traditional hymns with these very special members of our community.

 

Pioneers on the Train:

 

            Every May, members of the Victorian Aid Society assume the characters of some of our area’s most colorful pioneers to add historical flavor to the first run of the season to Silverton of Durango’s keystone business, the D&SNGRR. The day is a celebration of the reason that Durango is on the map, and of the people who made it what it is today. Riders enjoy meeting both early “movers and shakers,” as well as ordinary folks who peopled SW Colorado in the early years. It’s as much fun for us to “do history” as it is for the patrons.