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Western Express

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

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

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

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

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,...

Inn and Out

Inn and Out

This has been a special holiday season for the shoreline river town of Essex, which, for the record, consists of three villages: Ivoryton, Centerbrook and Essex proper. Country Living named...

Inn and Out

This has been a special holiday season for the shoreline river town of Essex, which, for the record, consists of three villages: Ivoryton, Centerbrook and Essex proper. Country Living named...