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Close Escapes
Summer’s a good time to get away. But maybe you don’t want to get that far away. Or maybe you want someone else to get away here. So here are...
Close Escapes
Summer’s a good time to get away. But maybe you don’t want to get that far away. Or maybe you want someone else to get away here. So here are...

Western Express
Famously wealthy Westport engenders the usual class resentments. But aside from the occasional shocking reminder of what I can’t afford—for example, admiring a cute little clutch in a shop on...
Western Express
Famously wealthy Westport engenders the usual class resentments. But aside from the occasional shocking reminder of what I can’t afford—for example, admiring a cute little clutch in a shop on...

Sea Sighting
A photo essay. When I find myself elsewhere along the shoreline, I like to find an hour to visit the actual shoreline. Which is why I recently found myself at...
Sea Sighting
A photo essay. When I find myself elsewhere along the shoreline, I like to find an hour to visit the actual shoreline. Which is why I recently found myself at...

Slices of Lyme
Painter Frederick Childe Hassam (1859-1935), a superstar of the American Impressionist movement and a key figure of the Lyme Art Colony, once wrote, “Art, to me, is the interpretation of...
Slices of Lyme
Painter Frederick Childe Hassam (1859-1935), a superstar of the American Impressionist movement and a key figure of the Lyme Art Colony, once wrote, “Art, to me, is the interpretation of...

Cross Purposes
There’s an element of time travel on Route 15. Known as the Merritt Parkway from Greenwich to Milford and the Wilbur Cross Parkway as it passes New Haven on its...
Cross Purposes
There’s an element of time travel on Route 15. Known as the Merritt Parkway from Greenwich to Milford and the Wilbur Cross Parkway as it passes New Haven on its...

Mixed ‘Burys
Whenever I drive through the ’burys—the bucolic cluster of towns including Southbury, Woodbury and Middlebury—I feel like I’m in the Twilight Zone. Somehow, I always manage to get turned around,...
Mixed ‘Burys
Whenever I drive through the ’burys—the bucolic cluster of towns including Southbury, Woodbury and Middlebury—I feel like I’m in the Twilight Zone. Somehow, I always manage to get turned around,...