New Canaan Police at 8:57 p.m. on Feb. 24 received a complaint from Walgreens on Pine Street of youth spraying deodorant throughout the store. The 2 p.m. Saturday show of “Ordinary People” from the Town Players of New Canaan at the Powerhouse Theatre in Waveny is free to teens. The theater company at a […]
Local preservationists are seeking to create an expanded historic district in New Canaan. The town’s current Historic District, created in 1963, includes 21 structures around God’s Acre. Under a proposal made public Tuesday by members of the New Canaan Preservation Alliance, the “Church Hill Historic District” would also encompass Vine Cottage and qualifying homes on […]
History Abounds in Richmond, Virginia
The first time I set foot in Richmond, Virginia, I was an aspiring writer working on a (terrible) novel about a family torn apart by differing loyalties during the Civil War. Newly married, living in Charlottesville, Virginia, I was fascinated by the amount of resources the state of Virginia provided about the war, its background, and the lives of the people who fought in it. Historic homes on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. (James Kirkikis/Shutterstock)
I was in Richmond to visit the American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar and the White House of the Confederacy. As a born and raised New Yorker, I had little understanding of the complexities of the war and the tumultuous years that led up to it. I expected to spend the entire day in the museum, head buried in displays and paragraphs of text I could eventually transfer to the backdrop of my book.
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Part of the Church Hill Historic District, in the hamlet of Crescent in the town of Halfmoon.Saratoga County History CenterShow MoreShow Less
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Part of the Church Hill Historic District, in the hamlet of Crescent in the town of Halfmoon.Saratoga County History CenterShow MoreShow Less
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The Saratoga County History Center congratulates the Church Hill Historic District, in the hamlet of Crescent in the town of Halfmoon, on its nomination to be added to the State and National Register for Historic PlacesSaratoga County History CenterShow MoreShow Less