{"id":2120,"date":"2013-12-13T18:16:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T18:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=2120"},"modified":"2013-12-13T18:16:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T18:16:24","slug":"downton-abbey-celebration-at-phelps-mansion-dec-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2013\/12\/13\/downton-abbey-celebration-at-phelps-mansion-dec-19\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDownton Abbey\u201d celebration at Phelps Mansion Dec. 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/files\/2013\/12\/tilly-xmas-card2.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2122\" alt=\"tilly xmas card2\" src=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/files\/2013\/12\/tilly-xmas-card2.jpeg\" width=\"487\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDownton Abbey\u201d season four premieres Jan. 5 on WSKG-TV, but you can have a sneak peek when you join us for a special \u2018tea and talk\u2019 &#8212; and a celebration of all things Downton &#8212; Thursday, Dec. 19 at the Phelps Mansion in Binghamton.<\/p>\n<p>The evening includes a tour of the Phelps mansion at 5 p.m., a tea and talk at 6 p.m., and a preview screening of season four, hour one at 7 p.m. Heather Welland, assistant professor of history, will present a look at the crisis of the old order in the 1920s with a talk called &#8220;Downton Under Siege.&#8221; <strong>Beth Kilmarx, Curator of Rare Books<\/strong>, will offer a look at some of the real individuals who inhabited the actual Downton \u2013 Highclere Castle. Then WSKG\u2019s Brian Frey will debut a short video simulating a correspondence between a Downton-era Binghamton resident and a member of the Downton family, to be seen exclusively at this event. Tickets are $15 for the evening\u2019s events. To buy tickets, call WSKG at 729-0100 or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wskg.org\/\">go online<\/a>. Costumes strongly encouraged!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDownton Abbey\u201d season four premieres Jan. 5 on WSKG-TV, but you can have a sneak peek when you join us for a special \u2018tea and talk\u2019 &#8212; and a celebration of all things Downton &#8212; Thursday, Dec. 19 at the Phelps Mansion in Binghamton. The evening includes a tour of the Phelps mansion at 5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archives-in-the-news","7":"category-events"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}