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Landon Speers Photo by Matthew Kanbergs
Landon Speers is an Alberta-born photographer and musician living in Wingdale, N.Y. His profound curiosity about the world and its inhabitants has led him to create images and soundscapes that celebrate moments of stillness through the infinite details of beauty in states of growth and decay.
‘I have always loved shoes,” said Lauren Brinkers at her pop-sale and display at Standard Space in Sharon, Conn., this fall. That love could not be more visually evident. In her studio in Cornwall, Conn., Brinkers creates velvet-soft boots from vegetable-tanned leather that she hand-paints with eco-friendly dye.
Mark Chiusano Photo by Charlotte Alter
Mark Chiusano, a journalist who has written for NPR, The Atlantic, and The Paris Review, will read from his new biography, “The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos,” at The Colonial Theatre in North Canaan, Conn., on Sunday, Dec. 10.
Alysia Mazzella Self portrait
Alysia Mazzella creates beeswax candles that are not just sources of light but symbols of harmony and remembrance, steeped in regenerative practices and deeply rooted in the ancient wisdom of the sun’s cycles.
Sylvia Crippen Photo by Christine Bates
Sylvia Crippen is an elegant 89-year-old with a tinkling laugh and a Scarlett O’Hara accent. She bakes about 300 Mrs.
Children at the David M. Hunt Library made ornaments on Saturday, Dec. 2, prior to the town’s tree lighting festivities. Photo by Patrick L. Sullivan
Residents with the holiday spirit were already milling about the town Green well ahead of the official starting time of 4:40 p.m. for the lighting of the town’s tree and the singing of carols and holiday songs Saturday, Dec. 2.
Children visited with Santa Claus at the library. Photo by Matthew Kreta
The Hotchkiss Library of Sharon hosted a festive cookie contest and meet and greet Saturday, Dec. 2.
With its first contest in 2019, the library has been hosting annual cookie contests in December where the public can submit and vote on entries.
Thanksgiving’s over, the leftovers are gone, and now it’s time to get out of the house and see some live entertainment.
Koenraad Van Der Meer doesn’t just bake bread; he is a bread philosopher with beliefs that are rooted in biodynamic principles, the intrinsic connection between the natural and spiritual worlds, and an approach to baking that produces not only a more nutritious and flavorful product but also fosters a new consciousness.
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