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3 weeks ago | ctinsider.com | Randall Beach

Ralph Nader often wonders why his American Museum of Tort Law, centered in downtown Winsted, struggles to attract steady crowds and is generally overlooked by residents of nearby towns. "When people ask 'What's fun to do in this town?' they'll have an ice cream or see a musical," he says. "But they won't go see the only tort museum in the world!""If they do go," he adds, "it opens up their curiosity and fills them with information. This museum changes their minds.

2 months ago | ncadvertiser.com | Randall Beach

Rich Parente rubs the belly of “Pig-Pig,” a Berkshire pig, at Clock Tower Farm. He owns the farm with his wife Cassie Parente. Sherman, Conn, Thursday, October 24, 2024. H John Voorhees III/Hearst Connecticut MediaCassie and Rich Parente don’t appear to be daunted by any challenge that comes their way. Their mantra is: “Why not try it?”And so when Cassie needed a place to keep her horse, Amos, they bought a sprawling nine-acre farm in the rural town of Sherman, naming it Clock Tower Farm.

Nov 10, 2024 | ncadvertiser.com | Randall Beach

Executive Director Robert Kwalick poses inside the main screening room at Bantam Cinema & Arts Center, in Bantam, Conn. Sept. 24, 2024. Ned Gerard/Hearst Connecticut MediaDuring almost every week of the year, Trudie and Norman Hamilton make the short drive from their home in Litchfield to a gray building that resembles an old barn: the Bantam Cinema & Arts Center. They walk inside, purchase tickets for one of the two movies being shown, buy glasses of wine and head into a screening room.

Nov 4, 2024 | ctinsider.com | Randall Beach

Here’s the kind of birthday gift a writer dreams about: on Oct. 8, 2015, the day he turned 55, James Magruder got a phone call from James Bundy, the artistic director of the prestigious Yale Repertory Theatre and dean of the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. Bundy asked: “Would you be interested in writing a book about the Yale Rep?”“I was looking for something to do,” Magruder recalls.

Oct 4, 2024 | randallbeach.substack.com | Randall Beach

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