12 Aug

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] Norfolk: Town with a Strange Personality by Ann Havemeyer [caption id="attachment_12798" align="alignright" width="300"] Philip Curtiss (1885-1964)[/caption] A century ago, Norfolk was emerging from the heyday of its summer resort years. Many of the hotels would soon close their doors. The...

12 Aug

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Feeling Blue? by Leslie Battis Merriam-Webster lists no fewer than nine definitions of the word “blue.” In the context of the question above, it clearly means “melancholy.” In the 19th century, it sometimes meant “intellectual.” William Thackeray wrote: “the ladies...

12 Aug

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] From Immigrant to Inventor by Ann Havemeyer “In 1897 I bought a farm at Norfolk. This blessed spot where I regained my health and happiness became my real American home and I have never had the desire to...

12 Aug

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Two Women and a Sporting Book Collection by Ann Havemeyer Most people have heard of Orvis, the fly-fishing and wingshooting international retailer headquartered in southwestern Vermont. But are you familiar with Mary Orvis Marbury, author of the 1892 fly-fishing...

12 Aug

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Meet or Mate? House or Hoos? by Leslie Battis In 1781, a young Noah Webster took up residence in Sharon, CT, at the home of Cotton Mather Smith, pastor of the Sharon Congregational Church. Unable to find work as a...

12 Aug

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Button Up! by Leslie Battis There’s more to buttons than you may think. I discovered this when I happened upon an unusual volume in the library collection: The Complete Button Book by Lillian Smith Albert and Kathryn Kent, published in...

23 Jul

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1721782816143{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_single_image image="12416" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1731544882204{margin-top: 7px !important;}"] Built in 1892, the Eldridge Gymnasium had two grass tennis courts, where tennis tournaments were held, including the Connecticut State Tennis Championships in 1915. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width"...

23 Jul

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1721782816143{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_single_image image="12396" img_size="full" qode_css_animation=""][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1721782748733{margin-top: 7px !important;}"] The West Cornwall Covered Bridge (also known as Hart Bridge), built around 1864 over the Housatonic River. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Bridges of Litchfield County by...