DATE: Sunday, August 17, 1997               TAG: 9708160067

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SOURCE: BY KAREN SANTOS, VIRGINIAN-PILOT STAFF 

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TIME FOR VICTORIAN TEA AT THE HUNTER HOUSE

IF YOU ENJOY a spot of tea, take a step back in time at the Hunter House Victorian Museum in Norfolk.

For tea lovers, there will be ``Tea Time'' tours, tea parties and scores of tea pots and cups exhibited at the museum through Sept. 12.

Take the guided ``Tea Time'' tour and learn the importance of high tea, at-home tea and nursery tea during the Victorian era.

Tours for ``Tea Time'' begin on the hour and half-hour from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Children can attend ``Story Time Under the Trees'' with activities and refreshments in the garden at 11 a.m. Wednesday. (Adults must accompany children. Admission is $2.)

Children ages 4 and older can dress themselves and their dolls in their finest for ``A Doll's Tea'' at 11 a.m. Saturday. Admission is $5 per child.

Put on appropriate Victorian attire and join a re-created ``Temperance Tea'' with members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union next Sunday at 3 p.m. Admission is $5 for this event.

All events require reservations. Call 623-9814. The Hunter House Victorian Museum is at 240 W. Freemason St., Norfolk. ILLUSTRATION: Photo

HUNTER HOUSE VICTORIAN MUSEUM

Join in a re-created ``Temperance Tea'' with the Woman's Christian

Temperance Union next Sunday at Norfolk's Hunter House Museum.

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