WESTPORT — Celebrate Westport’s “Jazz Age” — and the writer inspired by that era as he worked on a literary landmark — at the Roaring ’20s Gala sponsored by the Westport Museum of History and Culture.

The fundraising event will take place at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 22, at the Inn at Longshore, 260 Compo Road South.

Tickets cost $150 for an individual, two tickets for $250 and $500 for a group of four. For more details and to purchase tickets, click here.

Attendees are encouraged to come in ’20s-era costumes. Prizes for the most authentic and most original costumes will be awarded.

The gala’s Jazz Age theme is an homage to the summer of 1920 when F. Scott Fitzgerald and his bride Zelda honeymooned in a cottage near Compo Beach.

Taking a break from the frenetic pace of the New York social scene, the newlyweds rented an 18th-Century farmhouse on Compo Road, neighboring the Longshore estate owned by F.E. Lewis, where “legendary parties went into the wee hours of the night,” according to the museum’s publicity for the event.

Fitzgerald, drawing inspiration from the waterfront Longshore soirees, began work on his iconic novel chronicling the era, “The Great Gatsby.” The estate is now the town-owned Longshore Club Park — including the Inn at Longshore, site of the museum’s gala.

Lewis, a millionaire, hosted “raucous fetes where bootleg gin flowed for showgirls, stars of silent film, musicians and other flamboyant guests, including Harry Houdini,” the museum said. He “often buzzed by the seashore in his hydroplane to his guests’ delight.”

“Westport was at the same time a sleepy farm community and a hopping place during the 1920s and Prohibition,” Ramin Ganeshram, executive director of the museum, said in the publicity statement.

“There was plenty of bootlegging going on via the Long Island Sound as well as speakeasies, illegal alcohol sales and parties,” she said. “Police raids were not uncommon.”

The event will be emceed by Darcy Hicks, a museum board member, and her husband, Josh Koskoff, a lawyer known for social-justice advocacy.

For more information, check the Westport Museum of History and Culture website, or call 203-222-1424.