(PHOTOS) Livingston Enjoys Daffodil High Tea

On Saturday, the township hosted the Little Learners Bicentennial Daffodil Tea at the Livingston Library at 3 p.m. This Victorian High Tea -- complete with scones, Devonshire cream and finger sandwiches -- celebrated the blooming of the and will help to usher in the Bicentennial events. 

The event featured a visit from William Wordsworth, the author of the famous poem “Daffodils” and his sister Dorothy, who described how she inspired the poem. There was a slide show of daffodil pictures, created by nature photographer Malini Parekh. Tea was poured from porcelain tea pots, much as might have been done two hundred years ago in 1813 when Livingston was founded. 

Roberta Bramhall, a former LHS English teacher and an expert on teas and tea service, demonstrated some of her collection of antique tea service equipment.  Also on hand was a member of Essex County Master Gardeners to explain how a brown bulb miraculously becomes a beautiful yellow daffodil.

From the township release:

Michael Pepper, a graduate of Livingston's Little Learners preschool, organized the planting of one thousand bulbs at his preschool alma mater last October. Now that the bulbs are blooming, Michael is inviting the parents and children of Little Learners as well as Livingston residents to join in a celebratory, high tea at the library on the afternoon of April 6.