During the filming of Stanley & Iris, Robert De Niro and Jane Fonda appeared at a event at Lake Quassapaug in Middlebury. I wanted to, but didn't go. Did you?
On Friday, Gov. Chris Sununu commemorated a new historic marker on the State House grounds, marking a visit made by the Revolutionary War hero Gen. Marquis de Lafayette in 1825. Also there to mark the occasion with a literal bang, was the Lafayette.
Two Hartford-area projects will get federal brownfields funding to clean up contaminated land for development, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Thursday.
Riverfront Recapture, a nonprofit that manages riverside parks, was awarded a $500,000 Brownfields Program grant to clean up riverfront parcels on Leibert Road in Hartford and Meadow Road in Windsor. The land was used in the past for industry and agriculture and is contaminated with pesticides and other toxins. We are extremely grateful to the EPA for their support of our new park, regional trail connection, and commercial development in Hartford and Windsor,” Riverfront Recapture CEO Michael Zaleski said.
By TRACEY O SHAUGHNESSY Republican-American
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Established in 1877 as the Mattatuck Historical Society, the museum opened its collection to the public in 1912. Then housed ar the Kendrick building, a red brick Italianate house on the green, the museum focused primarily on the history of the Naugatuck Valley and the artists of Connecticut. In 1986, it moved across the street to a former Masonic Hall building at 144 West Main Street.
Read about the grand reopening of the Mattatuck Museum here.
Although the museum is still legally known as the Mattatuck Historical Society, it became known as the Mattatuck Museum and in the early 2000s called itself the Mattatuck Museum Art and History Center, its executive director Bob Burns said. Since then, it has increasingly broadened its mission from a concentration of Connecticut artists, such as like Frederic Church, Alexander Calder, John Trumbull and Kay Sage, to American art. Since the hiring of Burns in 2012, the museu