As protests over racial injustice mobilize the country, Conversations On the Green is holding a necessary and difficult conversation about race. On June 28 at 3 pm, "Democracy In Color” a FREE livestream discussion will take place with three nationally known civil rights activists.

Roxbury architects Charles Haver and Stewart Skolnick received the go-ahead in September 2018 to design a swimming pool, pool house, and gardens on a 70-acre gentleman’s farm in Washington.

It seems that God is going to deduct this entire year out of our paychecks. Everything these days—the past, the present and the future—is at a standstill. We are living inside a horizontal hourglass. Within this parenthesis, I feel wealthy:

Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, the 120-year-old Rumsey Hall School existed humbly as a premiere junior boarding and day school tucked away in the Shepaug Valley of Washington—some knew of it, some didn’t. 

When a covert agent surfaces in an exotic location in spy movies, trouble isn’t far behind. So when Loch Johnson, a leading expert on U.S. intelligence organizations, moved from his longtime home in Athens, Ga., to Salisbury last June, it meant something.

Now, as a Political Science and English double major, I feel like I need to find a way to explain this bubble we have had to slowly construct around ourselves. I write my way through these enclosures because it’s a quaint little form of escapism. At the same time, I wanted to do it through structure: through T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men.”

Nicole Tongue has spent the last 30 years working in the worlds of ballet, opera, and theater as a performer, choreographer, and director but has recently switched gears into rock and roll as producer of The Heroin Diaries.

“We fell in love with the area,” recalls Harley. “But since we had just bought an apartment in New York we had no intention of taking on another project.” But they did. After looking at a handful of properties, Hartley settled on a cottage on Lake Waramaug.

“It’s just like a snow day,” I say to the bank teller.  Except that it's not snowing, and the driving conditions are fine. Ah to be muffled in white—we may as well have been— the streets and storefronts were that quiet. Everything blanketed in stillness.

“TeleHealth allows Greenwoods to continue to offer mental health counseling, assessment, and referral services at a time when people need it the most,” John Simoncelli, LCSW continues. “But, many don’t know that TeleHealth is even an option.

The recipient of a $100,000 grant from the Connecticut Department of Economic Community Development, the Gunn Historical Museum has put together Washington, Connecticut—An American Story, an award-winning multimedia exhibit that traces the history of the town back thousands of years through to the present day. 

I’m social distancing like a modern Victorian heroine: Edith Wharton’s Lily Bart in The House of Mirth meets Henry James’ Daisy Miller (except with a happier ending—I’m no fragile flower).