• Larchmont in Bloom, Larchmont Historical Society’s 2014 House & Garden Tour, showcased seven homes and gardens in all their glory on Sunday, June 22 from 1-5 PM. Historians and expert gardeners were on site at select homes to provide brief highlights and details of the homes, gardens and luminaries who lived there.

  As an added enhancement, we also celebrated with “A Taste of Larchmont” Garden Party at a noted home in Larchmont Manor from 3-6 PM. Guests were entertained by local musicians while enjoying tastings from a variety of Larchmont’s best restaurants and wine stores.

Who invented the dishwasher, the windshield wiper, the refrigerator or blue jeans?

Kate Kelly, an engaging speaker and successful author, tells the stories behind the inventors of everyday things. You will meet  a multi-cultural group of men and women inventors and gain a sense of how creative people develop better ways to accomplish day-to-day tasks. Kelly knows the stories behind the first bra, the disposable diaper, the Mae West life preserver (vital in WWII) and why our keyboards are in the QWERTY format. Included in her talk will be a few humorous “first steps” like the drunkometer that preceded the Breathalyzer police use today to identify drunk drivers.

(And by they way,  blue jeans were not created by Levi Strauss — his little-known partner actually created the product!)