Parents & Kids

Pony Rides, Historical Games, Crafts at Mather Homestead’s Harvest Festival on Saturday, Nov 2

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Featuring cider, pony rides, historical games and crafts, the annual Homestead Harvest Festival at Mather Homestead
Harvest Fest, from 12 noon to 3 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 2, will allow visitors to taste a piece of Darien’s history and enjoy the beautiful property. — an announcement from the Mather Homestead
The third annual festival will feature food from local favorites NEAT, Jen Maher’s Little Bites and Savory Smoke Barbecue. Athletic Brewery will also be sampling their award-winning nonalcoholic Connecticut-brewed beers. Families can tour the historic home during Harvest Fest and participate in a Hunt for the Silver scavenger hunt while learning about the Tory raid on the home during the Revolutionary War.

Books & Authors

Celebrated Historian Gordon Wood to Speak April 24 at Mather Homestead

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Pulitzer Prize winning historian Gordon S. Wood, known as the “great historian of the American Revolution,” will discuss “Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson” at the Mather Homestead in Darien on April 24. The event, part of the Mather Homestead’s Scholars Lecture Series, takes place at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 24 with wine and cheese at the homestead followed by the lecture. He is the Alva O. Way University Professor Emeritus at Brown University and the recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book, The Radicalism of the American Revolution. His book, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, won a 1970 Bancroft Prize, and his 2017 book, Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the evening’s topic, was names a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017. “We are thrilled to have such a distinguished scholar on American history at the Mather Homestead.