An 18^th Century Lady

Sandra Tarbox is a well-known artist, independent researcher, re-enactor of the 18^th century period. She is also owner of “Tarbox and Tarbox,” a company that reproduces items of clothing from that period.

Mrs. Tarbox gives living history lectures and demonstrations throughout the Connecticut area and is a living history provider to museums, historic homes, and school groups. She has given lectures, demonstrations and workshops on historic costuming in New England and Pennsylvania.  Past Programs and Presentations include:

• Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT – “What Clothes Reveal”

• Webb-Dean-Stevens Museum, Wethersfield CT.

• Rochambeau & Revolutionary    CT Symposium

• Lexington Heritage Museum  Lexington, Massachusetts

• Lowell Textile History Museum, Lowell Massachusetts

• Sturbridge Village Time Line Event Sturbridge Massachusetts

• Historic Deerfield, Deerfield Massachusetts

• The Huntington Theatre Boston Massachusetts

• Brandywine Battlefield Park, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania

• Glebe House Museum & Gertrude Jekyll Garden, Woodbury, Connecticut. 

• Hurd House Museum, Woodbury Connecticut

• History Bites Program of the Litchfield Northwest Connecticut Convention & Visitors Bureau, Litchfield, Connecticut

• Presentations in Connecticut schools

• Co-Curator for the Exhibit “The Marshall Family at Home”

      Woodbury CT.  Glebe House Museum

• Danbury DAR at the Scott Fanton Museum, Danbury, Connecticut

• Women’s Club of Washington Connecticut.

• Trumbull Chapter of the DAR, Watertown, Connecticut