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The Taconic Crest Trail crosses Petersburg Pass.

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Kate Abbott
Helen Sadler performs as Jane Eyre at the Hartford stage.
Jane Eyre / Hartford Stage
Theater

Jane Eyre tells her own story on the Hartford Stage

February 19, 2020
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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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This hitching posts stands at the site of the Benjamin Grovesnor Inn on "the Street," once a hostelry known up and down the coast (according to Susan Jowett Griggs).
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Visual Arts

Where’s Whistler as a boy in Northeast Connecticut?

September 23, 2015
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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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Sunset turns the hills golden in Pomfret, Conn.
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Visual Arts

Revealing the woman behind ‘Whistler’s Mother’

September 23, 2015
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‘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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Fields are returning to woodland at the old farm that is now Hopkins Forest in Williamstown.
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Outdoors

Early spring is stirring on Earth Day

April 15, 2015
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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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A Connecticut hayfield glows in afternoon light.
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We prepare the ground for planting

March 22, 2012
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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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