Compass A&E

Carroll Shelby:  Legendary automotive icon, Le Mans winner,  engineer, driver and definitely outspoken Texan,  decided that he wanted to build cars.

The Chevrolet Corvette was the honored marque at this year’s Lime Rock Historic Festival 40 in Lime Rock, Conn., over Labor Day weekend.

As one can imagine, there were Corvettes of every possible age, model and significance — including some very rare prototypes from the General Motors Heritage Collection.

In that hypothetical game where I’m asked whom I’d love to host for dinner, Stanley Tucci remains firmly at the top of my guest list.

The American Mural Project (AMP) will host its sixth annual Art of Work Gala on Saturday, Sept. 17, from 6 to 9 p.m. in its newly opened mill building in Winsted, Conn.

Artist Christopher Pouler examines the human face of the refugee crisis in his show, “Only Fortune Makes Us Different,” which is on display in the Tremaine Gallery at the Salisbury School until Nov. 20. There will be an artist reception on Friday, Sept. 30, from 5 to 7 p.m.

The venerable, stone Richardsonian-style Hotchkiss Library of Sharon, Conn., is being renovated and modernized — so the functional parts of the library (books, staff) have moved to temporary quarters at the Herbert Klebes American Legion building, around the corner from the firehouse.

Douglas Turner has curated his third show for Theo Coulombe’s Standard Space art gallery in Sharon, Conn., which opened Sept. 3 and remains on display until Oct. 9.

Corvettes and other vintage race cars were not the only highlights of the Historic Festival at Lime Rock Park in Salisbury, Conn., over Labor Day Weekend. There was also the dedication of a section of track to one of Lime Rock’s favorite and most famous drivers, the actor Paul Newman.