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The dining room is priceless!

The most talked about art colony in America today is at Old Lyme, Connecticut — Hartford Courant, 1907 Thus begins the Florence Griswold’s description of the Florence Griswold home on their website. It is a museum very worth your time.  Located on a beautiful street on a beautiful site, order up a beautiful weather day, […]

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Monuments Men much more then a movie

Some movies are stories that need to be told, and not just Oscar plays. Especially now, 70 years after the events portrayed, with many of the players long gone, we need to remember how important master works are, and the lengths that need to preserve them and continue their creation. The Movie: The Monuments Men […]

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The Breakers

Transforming back in time, right out of a scene from the Great Gatsby , and the roaring twenties, The Breakers is a study of decadence, idealism, and excess. The Breakers is the grandest of Newport’s summer “cottages” and a symbol of the Vanderbilt family’s social and financial preeminence in turn of the century America. Commodore […]

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Kemp-McCarthy Museum – Rowe Historical Society

A trip to the Rowe Historical Society, also called “Kemp-McCarthy Museum, is more than worth  your time.  While being a fan of history is always helpful when visiting a small town’s historical society, it’s not totally necessary at this one.  The drive there and back is absolutely magnificent. Small country roads along a brook would […]

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