Fairy Festival Bellamy Ferriday House and Gardens

Fairy Festival

$12 adults; $7 children 3 - 12 (2 & under free).

Sat., June 16, 12 - 4 pm

Rain date: Sun., June 17

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Calling all fairies, elves, gnomes, pixies, leprechauns, woodland & mystical creatures! Get your passport to the land of fairies & join us at the maypole. Enjoy tea with a fairy godmother, stroll along the woodland walk & build a fairy house, or create your own fairy house at home & enter the contest. Visit the vendors, see the craft fairies, make ribbon rings & fairy garland crowns, paint your own garden stones, & participate in a parade. Prizes for the fairy houses will be awarded at the end of the day. Food & drinks will be available for purchase from the Soroptimists of Greater Waterbury. Registration required for fairy house contest. 

CT Trails Day: Discovering Historic Main Street

CT Trails Day: Discovering Historic Main Street

Free; regular admission applies for Butler-McCook House tour.

Sun., June 3, 12 – 1:30 pm

Join us for an easy 1.5 mile walking tour on the sidewalks of historic Main Street Hartford to learn how the city has evolved by viewing & discussing some of Main Street’s significant structures: City Hall, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Travelers Tower, the Old State House, Center Church & the Ancient Burying Ground. Part of the Connecticut Forest & Park Association’s CT Trails Day. Free. Reservations recommended at 860.247.8996 x 12 or butler.mccook@ctlandmarks.org. 

Elephants Trunk Flea Market

Elephant’s Trunk Flea Market

Sundays since 1976 (April–November), this verdant field is given over to dealers hawking everything from vintage tchotchkes and house plants to cottage furniture, military memorabilia, and old signs. So basically, a little of everything. Get their morning-mist early, fill your thermos and begin your rummage. There’s no such thing as junk at the Trunk!

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First Saturday Attic Tours Phelps Hathaway House and Garden Suffield

1st Saturday Attic Tours

Regular admission applies.

May – Oct., 1:30 pm
Dates: June 2, July 7, Aug. 4 & Sept. 1 

Join us once again for our ever-popular attic tours! On the first Saturday of each month, venture beyond the stations with museum interpreters for a rare, behind-the-scenes look of the Phelps’ servant & attic spaces. View objects & collections from the 18th to the early 20th century.

Madison Farmers Market

Madison's original farmers' market

Open every Friday afternoon on the Historic Town Green

 3:00pm to 6:00pm

May 4 through October 26, 2018

Rain or Shine!

Farmington Food Truck Fest

Farmington Food Truck Fest

May 27-28 

20 Riverside Dr

Farmington, Conn. 

11:00a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday

11:00 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday

More than 20 of New England's most popular food trucks congregate all in one location. Other activities include kids bounce houses, photo booths, and music throughout the weekend. Admission is free!!

Some of the trucks that will be here are:

Chompers

Johnny Potato

La Mesa Food Truck

Pierogies on Wheels

Wing it on Wheels

RBS Food Truck Festival

Bring your family and friends to the Orange Fairgrounds on Friday, May 25th from 4-8 p.m. for Race Brook School’s 5th Annual Food Truck Festival! We will have 25+ food trucks featuring a wide variety of delicious delicacies as well as entertainment for the kids!

We would also like to welcome our very own RBS graduate, Chris Hughes of Hughes Productions who will be spinning the party tunes in the gazebo from 5:00 on. Chris is a fun and innovative DJ who will keep the crowd movin’ and groovin’. Make sure to bring along your dancing shoes and lawn chairs and blankets to set up your own picnic on the field! There will be plenty of food and fun for the whole family!

Yale University Guided Tours

The Yale Visitors Center welcomes visitors and offers daily guided tours. Groups of 10 or more require a reservation. Architecture tours and foreign language tours are available for a fee by appointment. Hours: Mon.-Fri. 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., Weekends: 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Tours: Mon.-Fri. 10:30 a.m. & 2:00 p.m., Weekends: 1:30 p.m. Closed Thanksgiving and Dec 23 - Jan 1.

Sliders Grill and Bar Middletown

It impossible when pulling into the parking lot of Sliders Grill and Bar on South  Main Street in Middletown not to feel a certain amount of sadness. The restaurant has taken over the building that housed Cypress Grill for so many years. For many locals, myself included, the Cypress holds so many memorials of family dinners, celebrations, and meetings that have taken place there. My goodbye party from the Middletown Press took place here and so did our yearly reunions and more recently my grandson Josh's Confirmation after party. 

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I wasn't sure what I would find as I walked in the door but I was very pleased to see that this was a very sympathetic conversion, many of the original features remain but the overall impression is new, clean and open. I was given a tour of the rooms and the kitchen and I was very impressed with how nice everything looks. The outside deck also is very welcoming. 

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But at the end of the day, it is all about the food. I do miss my Cypress favorites, egg salad sandwiches, and chili but I have to say, a couple of bites into my delicious sliders and I was forgetting what I missed and concentrating on what I was loving. The Martin's rolls make then extra special and I had them with onion straws. 

Our waitress was wonderful, friendly and efficient. We never wanted for anything. As we were leaving, I asked the manager about the old telephone booth that had always stood along the north wall, he laughed. The Carta's daughter has it in her garage he told me and somehow that seemed to be the perfect answer. 

I will be coming back to Sliders Grill and Bar, I can't wait to sample some of their delicious sounding chicken wing flavors. If you look at the first picture, you can see some of the flavors on the wall of the bar. 

Lecture: Recent Excavations at the Templeton Site

Recent Excavations at the Templeton Site


Zachary Singer, Ph.D., will discuss the results of the 2016 and 2017 archaeological excavations at the Templeton site in Washington, Connecticut. Templeton is the oldest known archaeological site in Connecticut. Its Paleo-Indian component has been radiocarbon-dated to 11,190 years before the present. Dr. Singer will present new interpretations of raw material selection and stone tool use, artifact composition, and discuss the site in the context of the Northeast Region. Don’t miss this exciting lecture on one of the most significant archaeological sites in the Northeast!

Sunday, May 20, 3 – 5 pm

Price: $5 lecture fee; $10 museum admission and lecture; LHAC members free

The Institute for American Indian Studies
38 Curtis Road
Washington

860.868.0518
general@iaismuseum.org
www.IAISMuseum.org

Hubbard Park Food Truck Fest and Craft Fair

May 19th & 20th 11am-7pm at Hubbard Park in Meriden. Free admissions &Parking. They have changed things up this year and listened to what spectators wanted...more trucks...and craft vendors. 

To make this happen there won't be a carnival this
year, however, there will be 30+ craft/vendors and
over 30 trucks, many of your old favorites as well
as many brand new ones. DJ & Live music, entertainment, costumed characters for kids & more will also be on hand both days. Save the dates, this is a great annual event for the community and a perfect way to spend quality time with your friends & family.

Westport Farmers Market Update

Westport Farmers Market is a hard farmers market to both get into and stay in. They challenge their vendors to support the markets efforts to be greener, go more local and to find ways to support local farmers.  Here is a list of the superstar vendors that have made the list.

Summer 2018 Vendor List 1. Fort Hill Farm 2. Riverbank Farm 3. Sport Hill Farm  4. Beltane Farm 5. Oxhollow Farm 6. Aradia Farm  7. Two Guys from Woodbridge 8.  Arogya 9.  Wave Hill Breads 10. Boxcar Cantina 11. Raus Coffee 12. Simply Local 13. Local Catch  14. Huckleberry Pastries 15. Beaver Brook Sankow Farm 16. Paul's Custom Pet Food 17. Izzi B Allergen Free Baked Goods 18. Calcutta Kitchen 19. Om Champagne Tea 20. Healing Home Foods 21. Woodland Farm 22. EHSTO  23. Edgewise Knife Sharpening 24. Nit Noi Provisions 25. Sono Bakin Company  26. Muddy Feet Flower Farm 27. Rose's Berry Farm 28. Nutty Bunny Vegan Ice Cream 29. Simply Local 30. Bloom & Sons  31. The Stand  32. MOC Eatery 33. Skinny Pines Pizza  34. Dough Girls Pizza Truck 35. Farm True Ghee 36. Cross Culture Kombucha 37. Jane's Good Food 38. EHSTO 39. Sweet Harvest Food Truck The market will open for the summer season on May 17 and run through November 8. Thursdays 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 50 Imperial Ave   Westport

Vikings are coming to Mystic

Beginning May 19, 2018, Mystic Seaport Museum of America and the Sea, will be hosting The Vikings Begin: Treasures from Uppsala University, Sweden. The exhibition features a priceless collection of helmets, shields, weapons and other artifacts dating back to the 7th century. This is the first time the collection has left Sweden. It is a once in a lifetime chance to learn more about Norse culture in the age of the Vikings. 

The exhibit will be on until September 30. 

The Museum is open daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Check out their website for more information. 

Biscotti and Beyond will be back at the Farmers Markets in 2018

Simonne will be offering her delicious and varied biscotti and cooking at the following Farmers Markets in 2018.

Weds: Killingworth Farmers Market 4-6 p.m.
Thurs: Wethersfield Farmers market 3-6 p.m.
Friday: Cromwell Farmers Market 4-7 p.m.
Saturday: Old Saybrook Farmers Market 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Sunday: Chester Farmers Market 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Most markets will open in mid-June and run through September. 

To contact Simonne call 860-301-0825 or biscottiandbeyond@gmail.com

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