The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum to launch its third annual Young Writers’ Competition

The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum’s Education Program is launching its third annual writing competition titled, Rocking History: A Century of Change at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion for students attending Fairfield County schools. TheLockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum/Ernest Hemingway/Young Writers’ Competitionwill begin on May 4 through June 10, 2016 and celebrate the museum’s 50^th Anniversary with an awards presentation that will take place at the museum, at 295 West Ave, on Oct. 29, 2016 at 2 p.m.

LMMM Education Committee Chair Haroldo Williams said, “I am thrilled that the museum is launching its third writing competition and offering students a creative and interactive way to learn more about U.S. and Connecticut history and the arts, while providing an opportunity for students to hone the writing skills that they are learning and developing in class.”

This is a voluntary writing competition for third and eighth graders. Students will be asked to write a paper that highlights the difference between the Mansion in the 1860s and in the 1960s, when the house was about to be demolished by the City of Norwalk. In their story, students are encouraged to elaborate on what was happening in Norwalk from 1860s through the 1960s and discuss why the Mansion was eventually earmarked for demolition. 

Other topics that students may cover will be questions relating to the reasons why the Mansion was slated to be razed and whether villains or ghosts may have had any impact on the future of this American castle.

Requirements for the competition will be tailored to third and eight graders and posted on the museum website and on flyers.

The stories will be picked up from participant students and their teachers on June 10^th.

Competition winners will be notified by mid-September.  There will be a cash prize awarded for first place and prizes awarded for second and third place. Competition winners and their families will be Guests of Honor at the Awards Presentation to students on Oct. 29, 2016.

For more information on the competition and the Education Program please visit our website at www.lockwoodmathewsmansion.com or call 203-838-9799, ext. 214 or email education@lockwoodmathewsmansion.com. Limited availability based on a first come, first serve basis.

The 2016 Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum/Ernest Hemingway/Young Writers’ Competitionis generously sponsored in part by Robert Jon Hemingway. The Museum’s 2016 cultural and educational programs are made possible in part by generous funding from LMMM’s Founding Patrons: The Estate of Cynthia Clark Brown and The Museum’s Distinguished Benefactors: Klaffs, Xerox Foundation and The Maurice Goodman Foundation.