Twilight Tours is a partnership between Scottsville Museum and Scottsville Center for Arts & Nature (SCAN).
Follow a lantern guide on this historic tour exploring Scottsville’s past. This hour long tour features actor portrayals of characters throughout different periods of Scottsville’s history.
Walking Tours take place on Friday & Saturday nights in October. First tour departs at 6:15pm; last tour departs at 8:00pm.
Tours start from The Scottsville Museum (290 W. Main Street) and depart every 15 minutes.
A seated, handicap accessible performance of Twilight Tours will be held Sunday, October 20 @ 3pm, and will take place at Victory Hall Theater (401 Valley Street).
Adult tickets $15, students (K-12) $10
Video screenshots and photos below are from the 2015 event.
Anne Cox Scott, portrayed by Ruth Klippstein, spoke about hosting meetings of the Albemarle County Court in 1745 at the Scott Plantation near Totier Creek.
Kathy Kumiskey reenacted Ella Rush, an emancipated freedwoman after the Civil War, who lived near Esmont and and successfully saved her money for years to purchase her dream, a 5-acre tract of land for her family.
Randolph Jefferson, portrayed by Kit Decker, recalled plantation life at Snowden just across the James River from Scottsville. Listening attentively were Randolph’s children, reenacted by Liam and Kate Decker.
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Lt. Richardson Mallet, reenacted by John Settle, stood with his fellow Confederate picket to ensure our tour group had no Union soldiers attempting to advance against their Confederate unit.
A 1905 visit to Pine Knot provided Teddy Roosevelt (portrayed by Ralph Lewis) with a bully opportunity to do some relaxing bird-watching — now was that a warbler in the tree behind our President? No, but Teddy’s mastery with animals is evidenced once again as this photo is proof that he was able to teach a duck how to climb a tree!
Frances Farrish Butler, portrayed by Miranda Burnett, energetically talked about working on her brother’s farm for the five years that he and her husband, Earl Butler, served in the U.S. Army during WWII.
Anna Anderson, reenacted by Terri Long, told her audience that she is the Grand Dutchess Anastasia Romanov but that noone in Charlottesville or Scottsville believes her.
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