DERBY - My daughter Allegra and I enjoyed our visit to the beautifully decorated Osborne Homestead Museum last Friday when it opened for tours for the season.
As is tradition, area garden clubs decorated the house, which was the lifelong home of Frances Osborne Kellogg.
This year the decorations followed the theme of "Holiday at the Symphony."
This year the decorations followed the theme of "Holiday at the Symphony."
Members of the Derby Garden Society, Garden Club of Orange, Long Hill Garden Club, Naugatuck Garden Club, Olde Ripton Garden Club of Shelton, Oxford Garden Club, Pomperaug Valley Garden Club of Woodbury, Roxbury/Bridgewater Garden Club, Women Redefining Retirement, and Ye Olde Kellogg Garden Club brought the musical theme to life.
Kellogg, a businesswoman, civic leader, conservationist, and philanthropist, died in 1956 at age 80.
The house at 500 Hawthorne Ave. is operated by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
Holiday hours are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays through Dec. 20.
Holiday Twilight Tours will be held Fridays from 4-6:30 p.m. on Dec. 5 (tomorrow), 12, and 19.
Admission is free; donations are gratefully accepted.
Please enjoy the slideshow my husband Ralph created using photos I took.
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