Founder's Home: A Tour and Lecture at the John Jay Homestead, 400 Jay Street, Katonah, N.Y. will take place on Saturday, March 23 at 1 PM, presented by the Ridgefield Historical Society. Please register at ridgefieldhistoricalsociety.org, call 203-438-5821, or email ridgefieldhistory@sbcgblobal.net for more information. All will meet on-site at the John Jay Homestead.
Just 20 mintues from Ridgefield, the John Jay Homestead is the place to which Founding Father John Jay retired in 1801 after decades of public service. He had served as President of the Second Continental Congress, principal negotiator for the Treaty of Paris, Secretary for Foreign Affairs under the articles of the Confederation, and the first Chief Justice of the United States.
The tour will focus on the years of his residency (many of the Jay family furnishings remain with the house) and the lecture will touch on Jay's relationships with Washington, Hamilton, Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison and his work as a diplomat, jurist, and prominent citizen of the Founding Era.
There is a $20 fee for the tour and lecture and an $18 fee for members.
This program is part of Revisiting the Founding Era, a three-year national initiative of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History presented in partnership with the American Library Association and the National Constitution Center, with generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This program is co-sponsored by the Ridgefield Library, Keeler Tavern Museum and History Center, Ridgefield Historical Society, Drum Hill Chapter of the DAR, Books on the Common. Connecticut Project for the Constitution, and Ridgefield League of Women Voters, with special thanks to the Ridgefield Thrift Shop.
