The Mansion’s Gilded Age Tea in collaboration with Fairfield Museum raised vital funds for history and education
The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum hosted a Gilded Age Tea in collaboration with Fairfield Museum and History Center on May 19, at 2 p.m.
Fairfield Museum’s Executive Director Michael Jehle, co-chairs Kathy Olsen and Tatiana Mendoza, LMMM Chairman of the Board Douglas Hempstead, and LMMM Executive Director Susan Gilgore greeted the more than seventy guests seated in the museum’s beautiful Meeting Hall transformed into a Gilded Age dining room for the occasion, with cream, purple, and gold accents, and floral centerpieces generously donated by J. P. Licari.
Attendees enjoyed a traditional tea, a silent auction donated by local businesses, including Seasons Too, Geary Gallery, Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, The Maritime Aquarium, and The Norwalk Seaport Association, among others, music by award-winning harpist Wendy Kerner, and the exhibition, “Money Talks: The Gilded Age in Fairfield,” on view at Fairfield Museum through June 16, 2024.
Hats were everywhere, from wide-brimmed straw hats with flowers to fascinators, and prizes were awarded to the three best bonnets worn at the event by Marian Blassingame, Rosalie Rinaldi, and Sarah Loendorf.
The Tea Committee who worked with the co-chairs and staff on the event preparation included: Rose Carroll, Monique Govil, Linda Gates and Hetty Erickson.
The Mansion’s Gilded Age Tea was generously sponsored in part by M&T Bank, Bigelow Tea and catered by Palmer’s. LMMM’s 2024 programs are made possible in part by LMMM’s Founding Patrons: The Estate of Mrs. Cynthia Clark Brown; LMMM’s Leadership Patrons: The Sealark Foundation; and LMMM’s 2024 Season Distinguished Benefactors: The City of Norwalk, The Maurice Goodman Foundation, and Lockwood-Mathews Foundation, Inc
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