Bracebridge Dinner
The Bracebridge Dinner at Yosemite is an annual Christmas event held at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park. Started in 1927, the Ahwahnee's first year of operation, the dinner is inspired by the fictional Squire Bracebridge's Yule celebration in a story from The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving. The event is a seven-course formal dinner, presented as a feast given by a Renaissance-era lord. Music and theatrical performances based on Irving's story accompany the introduction of each course.
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“Bruno Antony: Tell me, Judge, after you’ve sentenced a man to the chair, isn’t it difficult to go out and eat your dinner after that?
Judge Dolan: When a murderer is caught he must be tried, when he is convicted he must be sentenced, when he is sentenced to death he must be executed.
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