Elizabeth Williamson, associate artistic director at the Hartford Stage, will bring a world premiere, a new adaptation of Jane Eyre, maybe the first novel in first-person to open readers to a woman’s mind.
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Where’s Whistler as a boy in Northeast Connecticut?
When James Whistler was larking about town with a sketch pad, drawing caricatures, sketching a fire in the rectory roof, skating and coasting with friends, where did the Whistlers live in Pomfret, Conn.?
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Revealing the woman behind ‘Whistler’s Mother’
‘Whistler’s Mother’ has become one of the most recognized paintings ever made. But few people know the woman in it. Looking at the elderly figure in her black dress, how many people see a young woman helping her doctor father in his lab in New York — or a young mother holding her dying 2-year-old son on a ship to Russia?
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Early spring is stirring on Earth Day
From the corn field at the top of the hill, we could hear the spring peepers in the swamp on the far side of the ridge. April is coming late this year, and I'd come south to a corner of Connecticut to find it.
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We prepare the ground for planting
Last night I started reading a borrowed advance copy of the Greenhorns Farmers Almanac, and I had to make myself stop before last night turned into this morning.
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