Blackfly Festival 2009 – you’re invited

The Sixth Annual Adamant Blackfly Festival & Parade
“Downtown” Adamant, VT
Saturday, May 16, 2009

Mark your calendars, stock up on repellant, and start mixing up the paper mache: the date for the seventh annual Adamant Blackfly Festival has been set for Saturday, May [...]

Earth Hour 2009: Make a Difference with Your Vote

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At 8:30 local time, wherever you live on Planet Earth.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
SIGN UP HERE
and spread the word !!!

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Happy 200th, Edgar Allen Poe

Edgar Allen Poe, the king of the macabre and the Steven King of his day, was born on January 19, 1809, which makes Monday the bicentennial of his birth.  My husband and I are spending the coming weekend in New York City, and one of our stops will be at the Edgar Allan Poe Cottage [...]

It’s Fall! The Keene Pumpkin Festival

When our son was a student at Keene State College in southern New Hampshire, we learned about a very special Halloween event, the Keene Pumpkin Festival, held every October on the town’s quintessentially New England Main Street. Everyone is invited to carve and enter a jack-o-lantern, and all the entries [...]

Coventry Farmers Market at Hale Homestead

The annual summer farmers market in Coventry, CT has steadily grown in size and popularity, to the point where, last year, the organizers determined that a larger site was needed. Since the market is a project of the Coventry Historical Society, what could be more natural than to turn to Nathan Hale Homestead (a property [...]

Christmas in Connecticut

This event for 2008 runs from 12/5 throughout the month of December.
I’m on staff at the Webb-Deane-Stevens museum in Wethersfield, CT. The museum is a small complex of three 18th century houses. The Webb House, built in 1752 by merchant/trader Joseph Webb, is the centerpiece, famous for 220 years as the place where George Washington [...]

CT Sheep and Fiber Festival 2007 and 2008

2008 – The festival this year is on April 26, at the Tolland Ag Center on Rte 30, Vernon/Rockville.
2007
The CT fiber festival used to be a tiny affair, compared to places like NY and Maryland. I’ve attended every year since the 90’s, and the growth it’s experienced over the past 3 or 4 years is [...]