Festive Dinners With Friends:

A Glebe House Museum Fundraiser

WOODBURY — The Glebe House Museum & Gertrude Jekyll Garden will celebrate the 350th anniversary of Woodbury with “Festive Dinners with Friends,” a fundraiser to be held on Saturday, May 30. The museum is also paying special tribute to three women — Midge Baldrige, Barbara Secor and Faith Warner — who have maintained their support and enthusiasm for the Glebe House Museum & Gertrude Jekyll Garden for many years.

 The evening will begin with cocktails at 5:30 in the private gardens of Mill House Antiques hosted by William Hildreth. Eleven neighbors are hosting dinner parties in their homes following the elegant cocktail party. Guests will be treated to a taste of the Greek Isles, a feast reminiscent of Normandy, or seasonal gourmet specialties.

Other guests will have a chance to dine with a Manhattan interior designer who weekends in Woodbury, a Hall of Fame Art Director, or a Woodbury antiques dealer, while still others will have the opportunity to dine in a circa 1780 farmhouse on a pastoral hillside, an 18th Century homestead overlooking the Hollow in Woodbury, a  magnificent 1920s Colonial Revival Southbury residence, or in a Tuscan villa on a hill in Woodbury. 

The $150 per person fee for the event will help support innovative and educational programs and maintain and restore the house, its collections and the garden.

To request an invitation or for further information, contact museum director Judith Kelz at 203-263-2855.