Living Well in Litchfield County, Connecticut

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Scarrybrooke Park Haunted Trail 2022

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Halloween Events in Litchfield County 2022

We've put together a list of Halloween events happening in Litchfield County this Fall!

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Wendy Goidell Makes a Splash

When Wendy Goidell decided to dive into creating a pool for her hilltop home, she rocked it.

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SAVOR 2022—a fabulous farm-to-table dinner food and wine event at South Farms in Morris hosted by our publisher Happening in the Hills on Sunday, September 18.

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In Loving Memory of Joseph Montebello

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Constantly Evolving

Restoring Body and Soul Through Yoga

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Featured Eats

Restaurants, libations, and local food

Flemming’s Hidden Valley

American Food with an Asian Twist

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Momma’s Terrific Tacos

Momma’s Tacos Offers True Mexican Cooking

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October 6, 2022

Cornerstone Project Fall Festival and Auction

October 6, 2022

Book Study: “Dream Tending: Awakening to the Healing Power of Dreams”

Virtual Event

October 6, 2022

The Nature of Oaks with Acclaimed Author Doug Tallamy

Virtual Event

October 8, 2022

Book signing & chat with author Caroline Nastro

October 8, 2022

Jeff Kellner Photography

October 8, 2022

Children’s Book Signing

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Wendy Goidell was merely looking for a real estate ...

Oct 3

Wendy Goidell was merely looking for a real estate investment when she found the 25-acre site in Wassaic. “It was reasonably priced and adjacent to a state park, I didn’t see a downside,” Goidell recalls. That was back in 2003 when she was renting a weekend house in the area while working as a film stylist in the city. If you noticed the flowers and greens in The First Wives Club, Analyze This, The Thomas Crown Affair, or Meet the Parents, they were Goidell’s work.

Not long after buying the investment acreage, Goidell began the serious business of house-hunting because renting wasn’t really Goidell’s long-term plan. “Basically, I looked at about a thousand houses that I didn’t like,” she summed up the buying search. And that’s when she ended up at her realtors’ converted barn home. It wasn’t for sale, but she loved the spacious open floor plan.

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Who was Elihu?

DR. ELIHU SMITH (who lived on North ...

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Who was Elihu?

DR. ELIHU SMITH (who lived on North St. in Litchfield) was unrelenting in his efforts to battle the yellow fever epidemic of 1793. Born in 1771, Elihu graduated from Yale at the age of 15. He received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania and began a practice in New York City. Elihu worked tirelessly to find a cause and treatment for the deadly yellow fever virus, as the epidemiology and treatment were matters of dispute. Personal opinions were influenced by political and religious beliefs. Theories of the cause included rotting coffee beans or simply breathing air itself. Even after mosquitoes were proven to be the cause, skepticism remained. In 1900, the Washington Post reported, “of all the silly and nonsensical rigamarole about yellow fever that has yet found its way into print, the silliest beyond compare is to be found in the mosquito hypothesis”. Before transmission from mosquitoes was realized, Elihu determined a correlation between yellow fever and standing water. Controversial treatments included drink- ing wine and cinchona bark, taking cold baths, and even mercury treatments. Elihu, along with his mentor Dr. Rush, promoted bloodletting, or purging the body of the disease through blood loss. Although Elihu did not discover the cause or the cure, he dedicated his life to trying. Elihu died of yellow fever in 1798, when he was just 27 years old.

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Amy Minasyan was only five or six years old when she became ...

Sep 28

Amy Minasyan was only five or six years old when she became fascinated by fabrics and threads left over from her aunt’s tailoring jobs. The childhood intrigue evolved into a career, and, today, her work decorates spaces ranging from sophisticated dining rooms to private planes and yachts.

Born in Iran, Minasyan spent part of her childhood in Armenia, before immigrating to America where she worked nearly a decade for New York City fashion designers. Eventually, she settled in Connecticut where she launched Best Monogram in 2011. Located in Washington Depot, her store showcases some of her designs, embroidered on almost any kind of textile imaginable.

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