Daytime Festivities

Daytime Schedule

10:00-12:00 Choose as many or as few activities as you like; don’t forget the lectures upstairs.

9:30 Check-In Starts

12:00-1:00 Lunch Buffet catered by Crisp and Petit Fours & Purls.

*Birthday Address presented by Julianne Donaldson

1:00-2:00 Continue enjoying the variety of activities and this time; don’t forget to visit The Market.

2:00 Join us for a Promenade around the Grounds, Prizes and Goodbyes.

List of Activities

  • Character Scavenger Hunt throughout the day

  • Croquet and Lawn Bowls on the Front Lawn

  • Fencing on the Veranda

  • The Market in the Grand Ballroom

  • Cards, Puzzles, Silhouette Craft in the Grand Ballroom

  • Lectures by Samantha Hastings and Jane Hinckley in the Upstairs Salon

Meet our Guest Speakers

Julianne Donaldson

Julianne Donaldson grew up all over the world as the daughter of a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, but she has called Utah home for the past 30 years. She graduated from BYU with a degree in English and a minor in music. An author of historical romance and inspirational nonfiction, she divides her time between raising her 5 children, writing, and creating extravagant Regency events.

Samantha Hastings

Samantha Hastings met her husband in a turkey sandwich line. They live in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she spends most of her time reading, having tea parties, and chauffeuring her four kids. She teaches World Literature at Brigham Young University. Her young adult fiction books are Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selections and her historical romances are published around the world She also writes murder mysteries under Samantha Larsen that Publisher's Weekly called "wildly enjoyable."

Jane Hinckley

Jane Gardner Hinckley became a Janeite when, as a NorCal girl, she first read Pride and Prejudice in middle school; this love for Austen was further cemented during high school, when she watched over and over her VHS of Fay Weldon’s 1980 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.  Her appreciation for all of Austen’s work, however, did not occur until graduate school at The Florida State University, which fortunately coincided with the annus mirabilis of Austen adaptations in 1995.  After completing her PhD in Humanities, Jane returned to her undergraduate alma mater, Brigham Young University, where she has taught classes on Jane Austen for over twenty years and at Education Week for the past ten.  Jane and her husband, Jaren, live in Provo, have four fabulous children, and two tolerable cats.