Festive Dinners With Friends: A Fundraiser For Glebe House Museum

WOORBURY — In the gracious spirit of the 18th Century, the board of directors of The Seabury Society for the Preservation of the Glebe House is offering an evening of festive dinner parties at nine private homes in the area on Saturday, June 3.

The hosts will open their homes to raise funds for the support of The Glebe House Museum and The Gertrude Jekyll Garden. Dinners will range from a seafood evening with a local entrepreneur in her newly built Adirondack style house to an elegant dinner overlooking rolling meadows in an 18th Century home built by one of the area’s founding families.

Other dinners will include centuries of history with an international banker and his wife at a beautifully restored homestead in the oldest part of Woodbury, lively conversation with gracious hosts in an elegant revival country home in Washington set amid a beautiful English cottage style garden, and a Colonial dinner with the museum’s director and a nationally-known antiques dealer and lecturer.

Morocco will be temporarily found in Woodbury in an antiques-filled elegant country home, featured in the January Arts and Antiques magazine. For those who prefer their Mediterranean experience to be Greek, join the former Metropolitan Museum of Art events planner and floral designer in his home to enjoy a taste of the Greek islands.

Seasonal gourmet specialties will be served in a charming 19th Century Federal house, with cocktails served on the terrace overlooking the Gothic Revival barn, or join hosts for lively conversations in their stately hilltop Roxbury home filled with art and antiques.

Oscar de la Renta and his wife Annette are honorary chairs for the evening’s events, and renowned antiques dealer and television personality Leigh Keno will be a special guest for the evening. The evening is being sponsored by Wayne Pratt Antiques and Mill House Antiques.

Tickets are $125 per person and can be purchased by calling the Glebe House Museum at 203-263-2855.

Places at the homes are offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Funds raised through this event help to support the museum’s educational programs, which offer after school programs, young docent training and summer day camps for children as well as guided tours of the house and garden, adult educational programs and many other programs. Funds raised will also support the maintenance of the important 18th Century home where the separation of church and state was first undertaken in the early days of the American Republic.