Volunteer Cat Brown of Sharon (who plays Georgiana Prescott) with popcorn in the Phoenix Mill House kitchen.
Volunteer Cat Brown of Sharon (who plays Georgiana Prescott) with popcorn in the Phoenix Mill House kitchen. Credit: —PHOTO COURTESY MICHELLE STAHL

A candlelight open house Phoenix Mill House at the Monadnock Center for History and Culture Jan. 6 gave attendees the opportunity to learn how the Prescott family welcomed the New Year, and experience their candlelit home as it would have been on a cold January evening in the 1830s.