Glebe House Receives Grant For Costume Exhibit

WOODBURY — The Connecticut Humanities Council has awarded a grant of $2,500 to the Glebe House Museum & Gertrude Jekyll Garden to mount an exhibit of reproduction colonial-era clothing set to open August 28.

The exhibit, called “The Marshall Family at Home,” will feature mannequins dressed in clothing that is appropriate to their activities and station in life, placed in vignettes around the historic Glebe House Museum. Visitors can expect to get a sense of a well-educated, middle class family caught in the activities of life in a busy household on the eve of the American Revolution, during a hypothetical day in September 1776.

A majority of the garments have been completely sewn by hand, using fabrics, trims and threads appropriate to each garment, and are meticulously researched and based on original garments in the collections of museums such as Historic Deerfield, Connecticut Historical Society, the Litchfield Historical Society and Colonial Williamsburg. They have been created by Sandra Tarbox and Hallie Larkin, historical costumers, lecturers and collectors.

The Glebe House Museum is at 49 Hollow Road. For information, visit www.TheGlebeHouse.org or call 203-263-2855.