The Adam Stephen House will be opened for its Colonial Christmas open house on the first two weekends of December, which are Sat. Dec. 5 & Sun. Dec. 6, and Sat. Dec. 12 & Sun. Dec. 13, from 4 until 8 p.m. on each of those days. For this year at least (due to COVID-19), the General Adam Stephen Memorial Association has switched its plans from the normal activity-centered Christmas celebration to a more low-key, laid-back open house. Due to the requirements for following safety guidelines, the live music, dancing and skits which are usually performed in each of the rooms have been cancelled. The association's docents will not be offering refreshments inside the Adam Stephen House nor will they be having the Christmas shop next door in the Triple Brick Museum, as they have done in the last several years. Instead, the General Adam Stephen House will be decorated, as usual for the holidays, with the "Williamsburg-style" colonial period decorations using lots of evergreen, fruit, nuts and berries. The house will be lit by candlelight, and visitors wearing masks will be permitted to walk through the rooms, following the guidelines for social distancing, to look at the decorations. Outside, weather permitting, there will be luminaries lighting the way up to the house and a bonfire on the lower lawn, which will include the lighting of the yule log, which traditionally (in the British Isles), began the holiday season. Light refreshments will be offered from the bottom level of the Triple Brick Museum porch.