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Groton Democrat to display art in Old Lyme. Other artists to appear too

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Next week, the Lyme-Old Lyme Junior Women’s Club holds its annual Art Show at the Old Lyme Art Association. The details are on the flyer reproduced below. The money goes to good causes, and the art is always very good. There will be lots of artists there, but only one of them lives down the […]

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A Tale of Two Theatres (and a movie)

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Last night my wife and I, and another couple, decided to go to Pawcatuck to the corporate owned Regal Cinema Stonington 10 Cinemas to see Atonement. Yes, that’s right, there are 10 theatres. If we assume, conservatively, that each can hold 200 people, that means that at any given time there could be quite a […]

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How I spent my Saturday

Sunday, December 30, 2007

I went a whole day yesterday without turning on my computer. My family and I, along with my sisters and their kids, went to New York to see a play and drop a ton of money on a couple of restaurants. Unfortunately, my brother in law was not with us, so I have no one […]

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A holiday suggestion

Sunday, November 4, 2007

As a public service and purely out of a disinterested concern for my readers, I write to suggest a gift that is sure to please everyone on your holiday list. Everyone on our list is getting one, I can assure you. Everyone you know would surely love a copy of the Intellectual Devotional, American History, […]

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Rock ‘N’ Roll

Thursday, October 25, 2007

A first here at CtBlue: a guest writer. I mentioned last week that my family went to see Tom Stoppard’s new (to the U.S.) play, Rock ‘N’ Roll, which is actually still in previews here after a run in London. My brother in law, Eric von Dorster, went with us and we prevailed upon him […]

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