Kathy and Rosy Tomorrow's

Kathy teaches special eduction children and kindergarteners.  (I met her at Starbucks.)  She has ten grandchildren of her own.  Kathy's husband owns Rosy Tomorrow's, a popular restaurant in Danbury.

Rosy Tomorrow's has lots of memorabilia from the Danbury State Fair, which was nearby.  The Fair closed in 1991 and is now the site of a huge shopping mall. 

Tomorrow, posts from a couple of weeks in China will begin.

Town Hall

 

There is a colorful garden and Civil War obelisk in front of Danvers Town Hall.

Peabody Institute Library

 This post is sentiment more than photography.  I grew up in Danvers, Massachusetts.  This is the town library, where my mother was a librarian.

George Peabody, a banker and philanthropist, also grew up in Danvers.  In 1856 Peabody made a grant to the town to establish in Danvers a branch of the Peabody Institute Library that he had earlier funded in the adjoining town of South Danvers (now named Peabody).

In 1866, Peabody made an additional and larger grant, allowing the Danvers branch to become independent and to build a new library building in 1869.

Dina and The Hickories

Dina Brewster is the Executive Director of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Connecticut and the founder of The Hickories organic farm in Ridgefield.

Dina started out teaching poetry in Brooklyn but came back to the farm where she was raised to take over from her father as the third generation farmer on this 100 acre Ridgefield farm..

Dina is a leader in several Connecticut farming organizations.  At The Hickories she raises certified organic fruit, vegetables, livestock, cut-flowers and seeds.

Two decades ago, The Hickories wisely sold development rights to the Town of Ridgefield so that the property will forever remain committed to agriculture.

New Haven City Hall

The City Hall building is on the far east side of the New Haven Green.  The building was designed by Henry Austin and was built in 1861.

  It was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1975 and is a significant early example of High Victorian Gothic architecture.

Center Church on the Green

Center Church on New Haven Green was organized in 1639 by the Puritans who founded the New Haven Colony.  The current meeting house is the fourth, designed by Ithiel Town, a New Haven architect.  

Town modeled the meeting house in the Post-Georgian or Federal style after St. Martin’s in the Fields in London.  It was built in 1812 - 1814.

Duck Stamps

 The USA has sold "duck stamps" since 1934 to fund conservation activities.  Since 1949, the design for the annual duck stamp has been chosen in an open competition.  Sale of duck stamps over the decades has raised more than $1.2 billion for conservation work to help migratory birds.

  Last week Bruce Museum opened an exhibition of every painting chosen for the annual duck stamp design.  This 1974 painting of wood ducks by David A.  Maass (above) won the completion, as did one of his 1982 paintings.

Three Hautman brothers (Joe, James, and Robert) have been perennial favorites in the Duck Stamp Contest, winning 10 of the last 24 competitions.  Above clockwise from top left are paintings by  Robert, Joe, James and Joe.