In collaboration with Fairfield Museum and History Center at 370 Beach Road, Fairfield, CT, the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum will present, The Mansion’s Gilded Age Tea, on Sunday, May 19, 2024, 2-4 p.m.
Co-chaired by LMMM Trustees Tatiana Mendoza and Kathy Olsen, this event will feature luxurious tea refreshments, a silent auction, a hat contest, music by Harpist Wendy Kerner, and a fascinating exploration of Fairfield Museum’s exhibit titled, Money Talks: The Gilded Age in Fairfield. Doors will open at 1:30 p.m. and tickets are $60 for members and $65 for non- members (for both museums) available to purchased here.
www.lockwoodmathewsmansion.com. Proceeds will benefit LMMM’s and Fairfield Museum’s educational and cultural programs. Event co-chair Tatiana Mendoza said, “We are thrilled to collaborate with Fairfield Museum for a memorable afternoon filled with history, culture, and tea delights. Guests will have an opportunity to stroll the beautiful flagstone patio, shop for gifts donated by local businesses, and revel in the Gilded Age era, while learning about the estates that once graced Connecticut’s Gold Coast.”
The exhibition will explore immigrant labor and innovative businessmen, domestic servants, and wealthy vacationers, growing public need and local benefactors. Dichotomies characterize the Gilded Age in Fairfield. The “Gilded Age” (1865-1912) was a period of immense growth in America known for lavish expressions of wealth and cavernous class distinctions. In 1873, Mark Twain gave the era its name with the novel, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Tremendous social and economic changes could also be found in Fairfield—changes that would not have been possible without the working class supporting the grand lifestyle of the upper classes. This
exhibition presents the industrialists, philanthropists, and entrepreneurs who summered in the Fairfield area, including P.T. Barnum, Annie Burr and Oliver Gould Jennings, Dr. Ira DeVer Warner, and Jonathan and Harriet V.S. Thorne, alongside the people who made their lifestyles possible. Money Talks: The Gilded Age in Fairfield is on view at the Fairfield Museum and History Center through June 16, 2024.
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