Live, Learn, and Lunch: Christmas Charity in the Gilded Age
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Free, donations welcome
* Pre-registration required 2 days prior for lunch (by Dec 16).

12:00 Light Lunch
12:30 “Christmas Charity In The Gilded Age” presented By The Mark Twain Museum.

“Great baskets with the feet of turkeys protruding below blankets of flowers and fruit.”

As Clara Clemens recalled years later, one of the most important Christmas traditions for the Clemens family was assembling and delivering baskets of food and gifts to poor families in Hartford. This program explores the family’s charitable efforts in historic context: increasing prosperity for some, increasing poverty for many more, and a society torn over what to do about it.

Litchfield Community Center
421 Bantam Road
Litchfield, CT 06759
860-567-8302
https://thecommunitycenter.org/event.php?id=19403