What’s happening in Fall 2020 Washington, CT Message from the Shepaug Regional School District 12 Selectmen’s Office Regional School District 12 is deeply appreciative of the support, care and generosity our community gave to our students and staff. We would like As we continue to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, to thank the leadership of First Selectman Jim Brinton, our town leaders I often reflect on how we as individuals, as well as a and Board of Education members who helped guide us through this community, have handled this crisis. I’m always left pandemic. Our town leaders continue to protect, support and carry us feeling very proud of our town. While we have not through a very difficult time. remained untouched by the tragedies of coronavirus, we have continued to embrace the values that make The Shepaug graduation parade in June was a wonderful illustration of Washington unique. All of our residents have come the community support of our students. Shepaug seniors began their together to meet the needs of the community. Our graduation journey at Shepaug Valley School. The parade of cars traveled businesses, cultural centers, schools, nonprofit through the three towns. Our community members lined the streets organizations and houses of worship have all met the (using social distance) and made our graduating seniors feel honored and challenges we’ve faced since the outbreak. celebrated. Our Shepaug seniors arrived on the Bridgewater Fairgrounds in their family cars. Our students were celebrated with honking horns, One of the biggest hurdles our community is currently cheers, fireworks and confetti cannons. You’re invited to view the facing is the reopening of our schools. In addition to graduation ceremony on the Region 12 YouTube Channel or by the direct Washington Primary School and Region 12, we have link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aG0_V2WcZs many private institutions facing this challenge. Since the outbreak of COVID-19 I have been in regular communication with our school leaders and their staff and I’m one hundred percent confident in their ability to reopen safely for the children as well as the community.

Looking forward, we continue to work on many exciting initiatives for the town. The Board of Selectmen has been working steadily to bring the next phase of planning the new community center to another public informational meeting. At this next gathering (in person, virtual or a hybrid of both), we’ll present residents with conceptual renderings of Shepaug Agriscience building. the center and its programs and amenities. As we did in January, we’ll take your feedback to further fine Our school system continues to support our students both within the tune the new community center. We’re currently in school buildings and those students whose families choose the distance the engineering phase of a complete overhaul of our learning options. The Region 12 staff is proving that their educational transfer station. When complete, we’ll have a more reach is boundless. There is a true partnership with families and educators streamlined, cost efficient and user-friendly facility. in our schools. Stay tuned for continued updates on both of these projects. Region 12 schools will continue to showcase our students’ talents throughout the pandemic. A special thank you to Judy Black Memorial In closing, I would urge us all to stop and reflect. Give Park and Pilobolus who found innovative ways to highlight the artistic thought to all the good you’ve witnessed these past talents of our students. We continue to welcome community connections seven months. People helping friends and neighbors, to help enrich the educational experiences of our students. taking time out of our busy schedules to help those in need, remaining vigilant and witnessing on a daily Thank you to all of the families and community members in Washington basis the creativity and resilience of this amazing who supported our students academically and emotionally throughout community. Thank you to all and stay well. distance learning in the spring and our return to the school buildings this fall. For information regarding the Region 12 schools reopening Jim Brinton plan, please visit our website at www.region-12.org. The pandemic First Selectman proved that it truly takes a village to raise a child. We look forward to our Town of Washington students’ safe return to the school buildings on August 31. “It Takes A Town!”

Despite continuing challenges posed by We want to use our space here the COVID-19 virus, our board, staff and to express our appreciation volunteers have worked diligently over recent to Jim Brinton, Washington’s months to continue to fulfill our mission of First Selectman, his fellow “providing a gathering place for neighbors and selectmen Michelle Gorra and visitors to relax, learn, play, and share all that Jay Hubelbank, and the entire our community offers.” Town Hall staff, for all the support they have provided Following official guidelines, we were to the Judy Black Park over delighted to launch our weekly Saturday recent months and, as a result Farmers Market on June 6 for the sixth to our community. consecutive year, and to follow that with the July 11 opening of a new art show (“Paintings” For starters, the Town provided by Caio Fonseca, a concurrent exhibit with us and other nonprofits with KMR Arts); six Outdoor Drive-In Movie the needed funds to purchase Nights; and an annual FUNraiser for the park, the required PPE supplies (e.g., hand sanitizer, 70 cars – all safely distanced from each other! featuring a musical review by the fabulous masks and gloves), plus the essential signage We also want to acknowledge the generous local actress and singer Audrey Heffernan we required, in order to open the Farmers support of our 2020 movie sponsors: McIver Meyer. Market safely for vendors and visitors. Morgan Interior Designs, Meadowbrook Gardens, National Iron Bank, and Union In our efforts to support the community The Town also partnered with us to move our Savings Bank. We were pleased to return to the during trying times, we have learned an summer Outdoor Movie Nights from the Pavilion again to hold our annual FUNraiser important lesson – that it does indeed Judy Black Park to the River Walk Pavilion, so – an event that in pre-COVID years had been “take a village,” or in our case, it “takes a that we could launch our Outdoor Drive-In held at the Judy Black Park. town” – sponsors, donors and volunteers. Movies. First Selectman Brinton joined us on Most importantly, it takes a Town Hall and our opening night and welcomed the Town Hats off and our sincere thanks to Jim especially a First Selectman who supports your to this special event. On August 8, a night Brinton, the entire Board of Selectmen and the mission and cares deeply about the well-being when most of the Town was without power, team at Town Hall for their support. of the community! “Ratatouille” played to a full house of about

professionally throughout the U.S., Europe Tickets are $50 for adults and $25 for and Australia. She has performed on children under 14. Broadway stages, in films, on television and Sponsor tickets are $250 for two tickets has recorded extensively. which includes preferred seating and special mention. She has worked with Barbara Streisand, Natalie Cole, Eartha Kitt, Patti LaBelle, Box Picnic prepared by the Pantry may Eddie Izzard, John Tuturro and Sam Harris be reserved for $25. Thank you, Michael on the stages of Pasadena Playhouse, Ackerman. Presents Universal Studios, Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden and Carnegie Donations of any amount are deeply Wanda Loves William Hall. Locally, she has been on the stages appreciated. of the Bushnell, Goodspeed, Infinity Hall, A Musical Benefit Stamford Performing Arts Center, and The By Governor Lamont’s order and the Town To Make Twelfth Night Happen Mahaiwi in Great Barrington. of Washington, we are limited to 100 people In Summer 2021 at the event. Wanda is delighted to come with her HBH Sunday, September 13, 2020, 4:30 to 6:00pm Band to celebrate with us her joy and belief We will have appropriate markings for social River Walk Pavilion and Lawn, Washington in the power of music and its effect on distancing. Depot, Rain or shine (Come at 4:00pm to the hearts of all of us. She’s a huge fan of watch the musicians set up) Shakespeare and is thrilled to support our Please reserve quickly by calling 203-754- efforts to bring Shakespeare back to The 2532 or by clicking the banner at the top of Wanda L. Houston sings the great American Litchfield Hills in 2021. This will be an the homepage at www.shakesperience.org Song Book, jazz standards, rhythm and blues, afternoon to remember!! soul and rock. She has lived and performed See you there!! Hollister House Garden

The garden is open now through be open for plein • Social distancing with other visitors of at October 10 air painters and least 6 feet is to be maintained at all times Escape to the outdoors with a peaceful visit photographers • Masks or face coverings are strongly to Hollister House Garden this season. from 8am to encouraged 12pm. Come Public visiting and be inspired • Proceed with caution, single track hours for the by the beauty of driveway remaining the garden in the 2020 season are morning light. Wednesday from Please visit www. 1-4pm, Friday hollister housegarden.org/events for from 1-4pm registration information. $5.00 donation and Saturday per visit. from 10-4pm. While the admission fee has been waived for this season, donations Evening in the Garden are encouraged. Visitor support makes On Friday September 4, 2020 it possible for us to welcome the entire Event Time 5:00 - 7:00 pm community. As the sun fades, you’re invited to enjoy the garden in the cool of the evening during • Picnicking is not permitted in the garden Plein Air Painters and Photographers these special open hours. Come see the • Donations are welcomed and always Wednesdays through September 30 garden in a different light! appreciated as we open for the community On Wednesday mornings, the garden will • Please visit only in groups of two to enjoy

organized each month by a different congregations take turns hosting the table congregation and all held at the First and then delivering the collection to the Congregational Church of Washington. Community Culinary School of Northwest Look for notices of a fall drive! The Council CT in New Milford, whose chefs have has donated all donations of shelf stable been using the proceeds to help prepare food cans and boxes, personal care products, meals (on average 650 to 700 meals weekly) While many of the Washington houses of cleaning supplies and cash and checks to the for the New Milford Senior Center, New worship turned to online religious services Washington/Warren and New Milford Food Milford Food Bank and Our Daily Bread for safety purposes during the COVID-19 Banks. The food banks have experienced a Food Bank. Thank you to the market pandemic, that didn’t stop them from significant increase in need since the spread shoppers and farmers alike who have made continuing to serve their communities. of COVID-19. generous donations to this effort each week. In late May, seven established religious This collection will continue until the last congregations in the Town of Washington Farmers Market at the Judy Black Park agreed to join together to form the in late October, so there is still plenty of Washington Council of Congregations. opportunity to support the collection! The goal of the Council is to magnify impact and unify forces to better serve their The next project of the WCOC will be to neighbors through a variety of collaborative host a recurring Red Cross Blood Drive, to efforts. The Council includes First be held at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Congregational Church of Washington, the Washington. If you’re interested in donating Greater Washington Coalition for Jewish blood or acting as a volunteer host on the Life, New Preston Congregational Church, first drive on September 11, or at future the Roman of Our Lady drives, please contact stjohnschurch@ of Perpetual Help, St. Andrew’s Episcopal snet.net or 860-868-2527. Church, St. John’s Episcopal Church, and Salem Covenant Church. Together, the WCOC seeks to serve our The second project has been a weekly neighbors through a variety of collaborative Since its formation, the Washington collection of fresh produce, other market efforts. For more information about the Council of Congregations (WCOC) has products and monetary donations at the Washington Council of Congregations and worked together on two recurring projects. Saturday Farmers Market from 10am to how you can get involved, please contact the The first has been three Drive-Thru Food 1pm at the Judy Black Memorial Park office of any of the member congregations. Drives (one in May, June and August), and Gardens in Washington Depot. The ASAP!® Upcoming Events & Workshops For more information about these programs, please visit asapct.org or call 860-868-0740. ASAP!’s VIRTUAL LEARNING SERIES Grades K- 12, Online ASAP! presents a free Virtual Learning Series on YouTube (www..com/channel/ UCDbi2racrTy0H8G8ciu3YSg). Experience free recorded Our natural maker sessions from home that include movement, visual surroundings assume art, math, theatre, music, cooking, science, engineering, such an important place and more! These virtual sessions are produced for all ages and offer a way for communities in our lives at times like to stay connected. ASAP!’s Virtual Learning Series encourages everyone to share their these, reminding us that videos, photos and drawings for a chance to have their work featured on ASAP!’s social there is actually order in media platforms. this newly chaotic and unpredictable world. Prime among them is the Lake; ASAP! SUMMER CAMP ‘TOGETHER WE DREAM’ MURALS our beautiful Lake Waramaug. We swim Ages 4.5 - 17 in it, boat on it, walk, run and cycle Over the span of ASAP!’s two-week Summer Camp, around it and just take it in from afar. ‘Together We Connect’, ASAP! campers ages 4.5-17 It’s always there, permanent through all expressed their collective vision for the future in the its moods; a sanctuary in difficult times. ‘Together We Dream’ murals. These murals united young artists from across and to Whatever the conditions, you may rest collaborate on impactful public art. Locations are in assured that we at the Task Force will Torrington on Prospect Street (between Summer and Water Street) and Washington, at 32 do everything in our power to get on Bee Brook Drive. Come see the vision in our murals! the water to monitor the conditions and react to what we find. How? By testing, The 15th Annual Asap! testing, testing; then by adjusting the Celebration of Young Writers Event times that our aerators and diffusers Grades K-12, August 30, 2020, 4:00 pm are on, by changing the amounts and timing of the release of zooplankton In place of ASAP!’s typically live and in-person Celebration from our facility on Arrow Point, and of Young Writers, we’re premiering a pre-recorded event by optimizing the schedules of our on our YouTube Channel (www.youtube.com/channel/ biologists and divers to capture and UCDbi2racrTy0H8G8ciu3YSg), featuring our host remove invasive plants from the Lake. Congresswoman Jahana Hayes and the top 12 young writers of 2020. ASAP! thanks all the There is so much work to be done and young writers that participated in the 2020 Celebration of Young Writers and encourages if we take our foot off the pedal now everyone to keep on writing. All top 32 writing submissions will be published on our we risk beginning to revert to earlier Celebration of Young Writers (asapct.org/project/celebration-of-young-writers/) unpleasant conditions. Please support webpage following the event in August. the Lake Waramaug Task Force. Our ASAP! PRESENTS THE 10TH ANNUAL sanctuary depends on it. CELEBRATION OF YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHERS For information on these and other Grades 6-12 October 1, 2020 Lake programs and events, stay tuned The theme for this year’s Celebration of Young to our Facebook, Instagram and lakewaramaug.org Photographers is: Quarantined. As you might imagine, . Also, visit our our Quarantined theme was selected to inspire students website to sign up for our email list to focus on images that represent their unique perspective to keep informed. If you have any on this unprecedented time in our world, and frame how questions about the Lake or the Task they feel about the changes that have been forced upon Force, feel free to email or give me a seanhayden@lakewaramaug. them to experience. We hope students will use the summer call, org to capture images of family, identity, politics, community, or 860-868-0331. environment, landscape, friendship, or anything else that is relevant to them. ASAP! will allow for photo submissions starting on September 1 and guidelines can be found by visiting Do you have a question about the WEDC? the Celebration of Young Photographers webpage (asapct.org/project/celebration-of- Want to submit something for the young-photographers/). The deadline for submissions is October 1, 2020. newsletter? Take a look at our page on the Town of Washington website washingtonct. ASAP! VIRTUAL FALL PROGRAMS org/economic-development-committee or Please view their website at asapct.org for exciting information. email us with any questions or comments [email protected]. Gunn Memorial Library & Museum

The Gunn Memorial Library and Historical Wednesday CLOSED Suffragists, Bootleggers and the 1918 Flu Museum are OPEN! We ask that patrons Thursday 9:30am-5pm Pandemic. Citizens from long ago will be coming into our buildings please adhere to Friday 9:30am-5pm brought to life by costumed actors who will tell appropriate safety protocols, including wearing Saturday 9:30am-3pm their stories. Fri. Oct. 30, 6:30pm. This we will masks and practicing social distancing. Thank Sunday 12-4pm (thru the end of November) offer as a virtual tour. you and we look forward to seeing you. Adult Library 860-868-7586 | Junior Library “Washington Responds to Crisis” - Share We’re pleased to announce Shepaug Libraries 860-868-2310 | Museum 860-868-7756 your stories and memories of difficult times Cooperative Programming. Working Website: Gunnlibrary.org Washington has faced including polio, collaboratively with Roxbury and Bridgewater small pox, Spanish flu, floods, storms, etc. libraries, we at Gunn are collaborating with Gunn Historical Museum Washington History Club at Night, Tue. Nov. Booth and Burnham staff to bring shared Programs 17, 6:30pm via Zoom. virtual programs to our communities. All programs are virtual unless stated otherwise. Check out our websites and look for more “Reminiscences of Life in Washington” View gunnmuseum.org for program links. information to come! and “A Paper of Memories of, or Near Washington Green 1872-75” by Rev. Henry “History of the Holiday House” Museum Calhoun and Clarence Nettleton, respectively. Virtual Preschool Story-times September - Curator, Stephen Bartkus, will lead an in- Readings from the Archives, Mon. Dec. 21, November: person hike to the ruins of the magnificent 6:30pm via Zoom. Two-year-old and under - Fridays @ 10:30am Holiday House and share its story. Registration Three and Four-year-old - Fridays @ 2:15pm is required to attend. Call Steep Rock to Explore our exciting exhibit Washington Junior Library Saturday Zoom sessions @1pm register: 860-868-9131. Sun. Sept. 13, 1pm. Connecticut: An American Story, celebrating begin on Saturday, September 12. the unique people, places and events that “Old Time Industries in Washington” by have shaped Washington’s rich history. Free Tune in to see what Miss Linda and Miss Edith Heath Rossiter in 1915. Readings from the admission. Thur, Fri and Sat. 10am-4pm. Abigail have in store! Archives, Mon. Sept. 21, 6:30pm via Zoom. Questions? Contact Jean Chapin Jchapin@ Monday 9:30am-5pm “13th Annual Washington Cemetery Tour” Tuesday 9:30am-7pm Biblio.org Explorations in Nature with Steep Rock Association This fall, Steep Rock Association (SRA) light on late-19th century land use, founding will be posted on our website, so keep a look is partnering with local organizations and preservationists, and the lasting protection of out for the latest project. experts to offer two guided hikes delving Steep Rock. into Steep Rock Preserve’s rich history. Due Families with teens and older children are to COVID-19, registration is required and SRA’s Monthly Trail Work Party welcome, but an adult must accompany and enrollment is limited. Have you ever wondered how trail workers participate with children under 18 years of build stone steps through remote forested age. Registration is required and limited to History of the Holiday House hillsides or boardwalks that meander through 10 participants. Note that participants will be Sunday, September 13, 2020 swamps? Participants in SRA’s monthly trail required to follow all CDC Covid-19 related 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM work party will learn by doing, tackling new protocols, including social distancing and mask 2 Tunnel Road, Washington Depot, CT and exciting projects every month, ranging wearing. from backcountry trail construction to water Please register at www.steeprockassoc/events- Travel back in time with SRA and the Gunn and vegetation management. Whether you Historical Museum on a leisurely, ¾-mile programs/ or call the office at 860-868-9131, participate for one workday or for the entire Monday through Friday, 8:00 am – 4:00 pm. outing to the ruins of the Holiday House, a season, you are sure to enjoy the camaraderie vacation retreat for working class women at the of the group while leaving a lasting, positive turn of the 20th century. Nature Preserve Monitoring Blitz: impact on the trails you love. Scramble through the remote corners of Revel in Rossiter’s Riverside Retreat The work party meets the third Saturday of Washington and explore the landscape in a Sunday, October 18, 2020 every month through October from 10:00 am truly unique way on Saturday, November 14 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM to 12:30 pm. Tools provided, but participants from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. We will start the 2 Tunnel Road, Washington Depot, CT are encouraged to bring their own hand tools day with a brief training session, where you will (i.e. loppers, hand saws, etc.) if they have learn to use your smartphone as a GPS, what Investigate one of SRA’s earliest acquisitions them. Wear/bring close-toed shoes, long pants, to look for in the Preserves, and how to mark on a 21/2-mile, fall foliage hike with Carol seasonally appropriate clothing, a re-usable and record your findings. You will then be Santoleri, author of The History of Steep Rock water bottle, and your own gloves/mask. assigned a Preserve, walking the boundaries to Association: The Jewel in the Crown (available Some hiking to the varying worksites will be monitor changes in the landscape. Location to September 2020 from Steep Rock Association necessary. Each monthly work party project be determined. and Hickory Stick Bookshop), shedding People in Places bottles and cans brought his hometown of Washington Art Association: August 22 – September 12, 2020 Bologna to life as he transformed ordinary 860-868-2878 or info@ objects into architectures washingtonartassociation.org of stillness. The challenge of this exhibit is to take Washington Art Association everyday items that are Seeks Mural Proposals seldom honored in art WAA welcomes concept proposals for a and to memorialize them. large mural for the exterior brick wall of Gallery hours are the Art Association facing the Bryan Plaza Thursdays – Saturdays, in Washington Depot, CT. Maximum 10am – 5pm, and dimensions of 12’x 20’ wide. Project could Sundays, noon – 4pm. be made up of multiple panels. The medium The exhibition is free may be paint, mixed media or photographic and open to the public. images. The theme of the work should be Please note that masks are an uplifting expression of human resilience, required, and all visitors hope and inspiration in light of the events Vincent Giarrano, At the Algonquin, oil on canvas, 20 x 30 inches are expected to practice of 2020. Artists must provide a scale color proper social distancing. image of their proposed work. It may be representational or abstract. The cost of the This exhibition is an invitation to WAA’s Call for entries for the Post panels and installation shall be borne by members to portray people and invites WAA at a cost not to exceed $1,500. The artwork that brings visibility to people in Pandemic Exhibition 2021. artists will be paid a $1,000 honorarium the context of their lives: reading, sleeping, The COVID-19 global upon completion of the work. All of the Skyping and zooming. The show will focus pandemic is an event artists’ other expenses shall be their own. on identity and relationships. Who are the unprecedented in living The WAA Exhibition Committee and Board people in our lives - photograph them, draw memory and presents of Trustees shall decide the work to be them, paint them. a unique opportunity chosen. for artists to discover Please visit www.washingtonart Transforming the themselves and each other. association.org for the guidelines. Commonplace Washington Art Association & Gallery invites community members to share work created during an extraordinary time while allowing a glimpse into the new ordinary taking shape beneath it. An exhibition “Post Pandemic” will be hosted by WAA in 2021.

Participants are invited to submit up to three original 5” x 7” (postcard size) works to Washington Art Association for selection toward inclusion in a Proposals must include: Written description group show that highlights each and statement about the proposed work and Adrienne Abseck, 5 Red Potatoes, oil on paper, artist’s experience, impressions and processes a scaled color image/s, the title of the work, 5 x 7 inches during the COVID-19 pandemic. Subject name(s) of the participating artists and their matter and media are at the discretion of roles in the project, photos of the artist’s Washington Art Association & Gallery is the artist. The ultimate aim of this project is own work that may provide insight into the pleased to host a show of Member’s works, to provide support, insight and inspiration, mural’s expression or website information. Transforming the Commonplace, from and to celebrate a reunion with our work September 19 – October 11, 2020. and each other. Online submissions (jpeg Please send your proposal to info@ format) will be accepted via email now washingtonartassociation.org no later Still life has always been extraordinary through September 15, 2020 at info@ than September 30, 2020. WAA will choose for painters. Bonnard’s tables of food are washingtonartassociation.org the artist by October 30, 2020 and the work considered among his finest. Marandi’s For more information, please contact must be ready for installation by April 1, CONVERSATIONS ON THE GREEN Pandemic Economics: Charting The Recovery

WASHINGTON, CT — Two Nobel working for a year as a senior staffer on laureates in economics walk into a bar in Pres. Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic the middle of a pandemic and meet one of Advisors. the country’s most respected and admired businessmen. The author of 27 books and more than 200 scholarly articles, Krugman also is a Professor “America drank away its children’s future,” one of Economics at the Graduate Center of the of the laureates, Paul Krugman, laments in City University. He previously was a professor He won the Julia Child Award three years kicking off the conversation with the headline of economics at MIT and, later, at Princeton, ago and his restaurants and chefs have earned of his recent column in The New York Times. from which he retired in 2015. an unprecedented 28 James Beard Awards.

The second laureate, Joseph Stiglitz, and the Named as one of the world’s 100 most Named as one of the most influential people businessman, Danny Meyer, a restaurateur influential people 10 years ago byTime , Joseph in the World by Time in 2015, Meyer in whose consumer savvy bequeathed him a Stiglitz is the second Nobel Laureate on the the first days of the pandemic closed 19 Midas touch will respond personally on panel. He was the chair of President Clinton’s restaurants and laid off 2,000 employees. September 20 when the three titans of Council of Economic Advisers from 1995 to He garnered the wrath of the Twitterverse American economic thought come together 1997 and served as the World Bank’s chief after the burger chain received a $10 million in Conversations On the Green’s sixth virtual economist until he was fired for criticizing its small-business government loan but was forum of the season. priorities. He also was the lead author of the widely heralded when he became one of the 1995 report of the Intergovernmental Panel first to return the money. A philanthropist, The first time the dismal science’s three giants on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 he is a national leader in the fight against have ever debated, they will discuss how to Nobel Peace Prize. hunger, serves on the board of Share Our repair the economy amidst the worst economic Strength and has long supported hunger crisis in almost a century and the once in a Considered “dangerously charming,” relief initiatives, including City Harvest and generation shift now underway in economic Danny Meyers, one of the country’s leading God’s Love We Deliver. thinking. As part of the symposium, they restaurateurs, is the panel’s businessman, also will examine how to exploit the ongoing an entrepreneur with a divining rod for Moderated by former NBC correspondent calamity and contain the jaw-dropping risks consumer tastes who is touted for putting and national talk show host Jane Whitney, in an effort to launch an era of prosperity like soul into business decisions. While he began the interactive symposium begins at 3pm on those that followed the Great Depression and his career as a political junkie and planned September 20 and runs 90 minutes. It will World War II. on becoming a lawyer, he soon turned to be live-streamed, allowing anyone with an hospitality and is the founder and CEO of internet-connected device to participate and A columnist for The Times, Krugman is Union Square Hospitality Group, which ask questions. arguably the most controversial of the three owned and operated many of New York’s and was called “belligerently, obsessively most beloved and successful restaurants, Stay tuned as well for October’s COG, featuring political” in a 2010 New Yorker profile. But including Gramercy Tavern, Blue Smoke and 2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg and that’s a recent addendum to his personality. In Jazz Standard, The Modern, Maialino at the Washington Post contributor Jonathan Capehart. his earlier academic work, Krugman focused Hotel and Untitled at the on subjects with little partisan salience and Whitney Museum, North End Grill, Marta, More information to come! essentially ignored politics, even when while Vini e Fritti, and Porchlight, among others.

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WEC’s new program, As the WRW program grows, WEC National Iron Bank, Fossbender Family, Gorra The Washington Road is hoping to raise additional funds in Family, McDonough/Rowe Family, Barrett Warriors (WRW), is a order to recognize each road with an Family, Decker Family, Hubelbank Family, public participation program environmentally-sound sign as well as Braverman Family, Braverman-Dodge Family, for volunteers who want to help control and provide the supplies needed for a safe and Ewing Family, Kelly Family, Nickoll-Armstrong reduce roadside litter/trash by collecting and effective litter collection. Washington Road Family, Susie Payne and Family, Horan Family, cleaning their road at least four times a year. Warrior registration is available 24/7 at Mudge Family, Tibbatts-Nichols Family, Anne This program is an exciting way for residents to www.wec-ct.org. Kimball, Karen Silk, Paolucci Family, Genovese make a vital and positive contribution to our Family, Hungerford Family. community and the environment. With WEC’s All of us here at WEC are so grateful to help and your efforts, every road in Washington the following list of families, individuals will be safe as well as charming. and businesses for being WEC’s first round of WRWs: What’s Going on in Washington, CT This is just a small sampling fromExploreWashingtonCT.com . Please check the site for more information and for other events. September to make life better during this challenging through the many challenges these fun fruits time we are all facing, together! Everyone is present. A materials list for this workshop may 12 | 6:00-8:00pm welcome to share their posts on Instagram by be found here. It will also be emailed with your IAIS Annual Founder’s Clambake tagging #WashingtonTogether. Share books registration confirmation. Location: River Walk Pavilion and videos you’re enjoying, recipes, favorite It’s that time of year again! Savor local hikes, how you are helping others, what our Due to current regulations this workshop is Indigenous foods of lobster, clams, corn, local businesses are doing, tips for the kids, limited to 8 participants. and potatoes while enjoying drumming art projects, exercise advice, what inspires & dancing by the Thunderbird American you, what you are grateful for, really whatever This workshop will be held in the Barn. There Indian Dancers! As we honor our past 45 you’d like to share. Posts will appear in is one participant per work table and tables years with social distancing on our minds, realtime on Explore Washington CT on this will be spaced a minimum of 6 feet apart we will limit onsite dinner guests and ALSO page: https://explorewashingtonct.com/ throughout the barn. You must wear a face offer takeout to guests who want to enjoy an together We look forward to seeing what mask when not seated at your work table. If at-home clambake. you all have to share! you have any questions call the office at 860- 868-2200. Please bring a bag lunch – water, Reservations required. Thank you to Jessica Rose and JoAnne Torti soft drinks and snacks will be provided. https://www.iaismuseum.org/event/ of ASAP! who came to us with the idea for annual-founders-clambake/ this project.) The watercolor workshops at Hollister House $50 Adults; $40 Members; $10 children 12 Garden are taught by Betsy Rogers-Knox. and under (hot dogs, chips, and lemonade) October Betsy received a Certificate in Botanical Illustration from NYBG in 2006. Her work 9 | 10:00am-3:30pm has been widely exhibited in the Month-long event | 6:00-8:00pm Pumpkins and Gourds at Hollister House and at the Royal Horticultural Botanical Art #WashingtonTogether Gardens Show in where she was awarded the Location: Online Location: Hollister House, 300 Nettleton Silver Gilt Award. #WashingtonTogether is a new town-wide Hollow Road, Washington project that provides a platform for the Using watercolor techniques you will explore Hollister House Garden members $95 community to share and connect virtually. the brilliant colors and funky lumps, bumps Non-members $120 The community can share inspiration, and patterns on these autumn treasures. Registration required hollisterhousegarden.org/events advice, activities, and what everyone is doing Step-by-step demonstrations will guide you

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