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Tom Goldenberg found his muse oozing from a smooshed walnut that had fallen to the ground in his Sharon, Conn., yard. The acclaimed artist, who has worked with hand-ground pigments for decades, had been raking buckets of the nuisance nuts from his stand of walnut trees to give to a local farmer for his pigs.
This photo of Richard Manyak is part of a collection of portraits by Lazlo Gyorsok now on display at the library in Cornwall, Conn. Photo by Lazlo Gyorsok
Cornwall’s Lazlo Gyorsok spent the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic visiting (with masks and social distance) people in Cornwall, Conn., and seeing how they were spending time during the quarantine. The result is a collection of portraits called “While We Were Home,” now on display at the Cornwall Library in Cornwall.
It isn’t only the leaves that put on their most spectacular show of colors in autumn. It’s also waterfowl, who moult their dowdy summer plumage in October and November and put on their finest feathers, as their six-month mating and courtship period begins.
Listening to music is in itself a pleasant experience, but that experience becomes infinitely richer if you have some knowledge about what you’re listening to and how it came to be.
The suspense is killing us! No one knows yet whether trick-or-treating will be organized by towns on Halloween this year, which is leading to some perhaps seasonally appropriate terror (well, OK: anxiety) about what will happen on Oct.
Jandi Hanna helps children with communication and verbal expression as a speech pathologist at Lee H. Kellogg School and Cornwall Consolidated School in Connecticut. She continued to teach students “virtually” in quarantine, and has returned to in-person lessons this school year. Photo by Alexander Wilburn
It’s perhaps not surprising that in recounting the many changes and challenges teachers have faced this year, Jandi Hanna, a speech and language pathologist who lives in Falls Village, Conn., starts with the negative. On top of the threat of spreading COVID-19 this year, there has been the existential threat.
Millerton News reporter Kaitlin Lyle advocates for journaling as a way to store memories and also to work out problems you aren’t necessarily ready to talk about yet. Photo by Hunter O. Lyle
Take it from someone who’s been practicing the art of journaling for more than a decade: You may just discover more about yourself with a pen in hand and a blank page than you might suspect.
I was dumped from my dream job via teleconference.
I had the good fortune to attend an excellent public high school. Langley High School in McLean, Va., was so good that the great and the good of Washington, D.C., who had their pick of exclusive private schools, often sent their kids to Langley.
Who knows what treasures lurk in the back of your closet? Perhaps a pledge paddle and a giant egg cup … Photo by Leila Hawken
The fall season inspires many of us to tackle tasks in home spaces holding essential and non-essential stuff that has built up over the summer, or longer. Take, for example, a walk-in closet that has become a stretch-to-reach-in closet with various objects blocking the way.
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