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Echinacea (purple coneflower) Photos by Cynthia Hochswender
The rain stopped, briefly, and the wildflowers in fields and along roadsides busted into bloom.
The competitive cycling season peaks in July with the Tour de France, which ends with the ride through Paris on Sunday, July 18. The Tri-state region offers cycling events on a gentler scale, such as this one that was photographed in 1985 for The Lakeville Journal. File photo
Ardent cycling fans are no doubt already glued to their screens, watching the excitement of the 2021 Tour de France, which began on June 26 and continues until Sunday, July 18.
Action Wildlife Foundation Inc.
337 Torrington Road, Goshen, CT,
860-491-9191, www.actionwildlife.org
Farm zoo with animals from around the world. Drive through or walk. Petting barn, hayrides. Wheelchair accessible. Check website for seasonal hours.
Definitely a “family affair,” Susan Saccardi, at left, produces a vast array of baked good in her home bakery business, Suzie’s Sweets. Her son, Dean, assists in many aspects of the business, from managing the web presence to helping in the bake kitchen. Photo by Leila Hawken
Flour can be a fickle ingredient. In the right hands it is essential to creating all sorts of baked wonderments. In the wrong hands, well, its use can bring disappointing results.
Yes, we’re talking about the Tomato Pie War (again!). This is an interesting tale of a clash in one small area town, and it’s worth telling again because, well, it’s summer and soon the tomatoes will be ripe and ready for roasting and there will be a recipe at the end of this article.
This May, approximately 385 years after Dutch noble houses, their scullery maids and footmen alike, rushed greedily to acquire the prized perennials, Salisbury, Conn., had its own little burst of tulip mania.
Riding along the Harlem Valley Rail Trail on a summer day, cyclists will soon experience the thrill of riding over the clear blue waters as they ride from the center of Millerton in the direction of Copake. Photo by Kaitlin Lyle
One of the things I love best about this area is that there are few limits to where you can ride your bike.
I have been on a bike for more than a decade, and I’ve ridden everywhere from the Hotchkiss Library in Sharon, Conn., to all around Block Island, R.I., and along sections of the Harlem Valley Rail Trail.
James Shepherd’s path to becoming the state’s main commercial grower of hops was paved with challenges. It has taken six years of trial and error, sweat and perseverance, to successfully reintroduce a crop that once had roots here but fell out of use due to Connecticut’s fickle climate.
On a pleasant June morning Lara Hafner and Maria Grusauskas entertained a visitor on the porch at Mountain View Farm on Route 7 in Falls Village, Conn.
The visitor was a little startled when Hafner mentioned that she and her husband, Patrick, bought the place in 2013. Had it really been that long?
The Connecticut Antique Machinery Association Museum in Kent, Conn., opens to the public on Saturday, July 24, for the annual Engine Show. Visitors can see the museum’s many machines up close and hard at work. Photo by Lans Christensen
One of the big social events of the year in Litchfield County, of course, is the autumn showing of steam-powered and small-engine machinery at the Connecticut Antique Machinery Association Museum on Route 7 in Kent, Conn.
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