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The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum will host its annual Victorian Tea on May 3
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Apr 18, 2009 - 8:34 PM

The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum will host its second Annual Victorian Tea on May 3rd at 2:00 p.m., in the Rotunda of the mansion. As hats will be the theme for this year’s event, LMMM interpreter and docent Shary Seaburg will talk about their role during the Victorian era and share with guests some interesting and unusual facts. Although hats are not required to be a guest at this event, prizes will be awarded for hat originality, beauty and daring to those that wear them.

The Duchess of Bedford, one of Queen Victoria’s ladies-in-waiting is known as the creator of “teatime.” Lunch, in the Victorian era, was a rather meager fare and apparently did not provide adequate sustenance to the Queen’s entourage. Hence, the duchess decided to invite friends over for teatime, at around five o’clock, beginning a tradition that continues to this day.

The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion is known to have honored this tradition in the past, and members and volunteers decided to revive it and share it with Fairfield County residents and visitors. Guests at the mansion’s Victorian tea party will enjoy a traditional tea fare of scones, Devonshire cream, lemon curd, tea sandwiches, tea cakes, tartlets and cookies.

The event will also feature a performance by harpist Alix Raspe, a sophomore at Greenwich High School who has been a student of harp since she was eight years old. In 2007, Alix received the Annapolis Music Festival Maestro Award as Outstanding Soloist and premiered a piece commissioned for her and the Greenwich Central Middle School Orchestra entitled “Fidele & Esperance” by Catherine McMichael. Currently, she performs in the Principal orchestra of the Norwalk Youth Symphony.

The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum Victorian Tea Committee includes: Chairperson Susan Lewis a resident of Norwalk, CT, Shary Seaburg, Interpreter, (Darien), Anna Veccia, (Norwalk), Sasha Goldman, (Greenwich), Ester Stefanidis, (Norwalk), Jean Lebedeff, (Norwalk), Dot DeFinis, (Norwalk), Shirley Headley, (Norwalk), Natalie Gibbs, (Norwalk), Connie Kozma, (Norwalk), Linda DiMeglio, (Redding), Diane O’Connor, (Stamford), Susan Viola (Greenwich) and Rosalie Rinaldi, (Norwalk).

Admission: non-members $30.00 members $25.00
Table of eight $200

For reservations contact: Brian Fischer
bfischer@lockwoodmathewsmansion.com
203-838-9799

For additional information call 838-9799 or e-mail info@lockwoodmathewsmansion.com

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