Docent Donn Smith has been busy poking around the attic of the Mather Homestead and he's found treasures abound! Check out his blogs which document his findings including artifacts from 250 years of American life - a bible from 1743, a girl's dress from the 1860's, Stephen Mather's camera, a love letter written by Stephen Mather to his wife ❤️ and more.  Oh the stories they tell!  
 

From the Deacon to Stephen…Tracing the ownership of the Homestead from 1840 to 1905.

Where does time go?Rediscovering Joseph Wakeman Mather’s pocket watch.

Flower baskets, two cats, and a cockatoo.A pause to look at the doorstops in the Mather Homestead.

Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust…A brief look at early generation Mather gravesites.

The Treasurer, the Mayflower, and a horse and cow. The dazzling distaff genealogy of Stephen Tyng M

“She rests at last beneath the starry skies…”. The Mather Cemetery and the children of Deacon Mather

A Tree Grows in Darien. Does it still?

To debut or not debut, that was the question.

Party like it’s 1778…175th Anniversary Celebration at the Mather Homestead September 12, 1953

A rare book and the legacy of Moses Mather

The lineage of Hannah Smith Scott, Mother of Sarah Scott, wife of Deacon Joseph Mather

The Rockefeller Letters. Correspondence from John D. Rockefeller Jr.

And all before frequent flyer miles…Stephen T. Mather and the Pan Pacific Conference

Party like it’s 1778…The Sequel. 200th Anniversary Celebration at the Mather Homestead June 17, 1978

Another one for “the books”. An appreciation of John Roberts Hoole

A book of flowers…an artist and her cousin Shirley Amy Turner and Stephen T. Mather

The Sutcliffe Letters “You are in a far and distant land…”

“…What slave should be held any longer…? Deacon Joseph Mather and The Abolitionist Debate.

“…born 16 September 1811 at half past nine in the morning…”The revelations of three family Bibles i

“Mystery Books?” Perhaps not.7 strangers in the second floor bookcase.