Compass A&E

Ben Wolff has continued the tradition of exquisite and understated pottery and “horticultureware” that was begun by his father, Guy Wolff. 

In a world where you can’t go to a theater to see films or plays, now there is another option: Drive-ins. The Four Brothers Drive-In Theatre in Amenia, N.Y., was a regional pioneer, and continues to show first-run and classic films. 

The season changes. A cold wind chills the beach.

The long lines of it grow longer, emptier,

A darkness gathers though it does not fall

And the whiteness grows less vivid on the wall.

The man who is walking turns blankly on the sand.

It’s a question that’s almost theological: Was the man who wrote the greatest plays in the English language actually William Shakespeare, or was it someone else?

This is the time of year when, normally, we would head to the Goshen Fair in Connecticut or the Dutchess County Fair in New York and learn the differences between all those types of cows that we see in the fields as we drive around on our country roads.

Despite the COVID-19 quarantine, many people did answer the annual call of the sea and took long-planned vacations at the Jersey Shore or Cape Cod.

The inspiration for Donald Bracken’s paintings made a 360 degree turn when he lost his studio on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center (where he was an artist in residence) and he came home to West Cornwall, Conn.

For the avid detective fiction fan, there is no puzzle more alluring than a locked room mystery. In its simplest form, it is a crime (usually a murder) that has been committed in a room sealed from the inside with no way out (and in theory, no way in).