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The best small towns in Connecticut are filled with adorable inns, antiques, and history. One of them even inspired Gilmore Girls's Stars Hollow.

He and his daughter transformed an abandoned Nabisco plant into a Manhattan destination for people who liked to cook, to eat and to gape.

In the picturesque town of Washington, Connecticut, set amidst the pastoral hills of Litchfield County, the 2023 Spring Hill Arts Gathering (SHAG) welcomed guests—locals and travelers, alike—to four celebratory days of art, music and culinary immersion this June. Hosted within Spring Hill Vineyards, the spectacular occasion paired permanent work by artists like CH favorites Hank…

We have the scoop on the projects that won over the jury and public at the $450,000 art competition in Grand Rapids.

Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park is once again becoming an ArtPrize venue for the 12th annual competition.

By Hanna Snyder Gambini Republican-American PROSPECT -- The long-awaited statue of “Bella the Dog” is now at home in the courtyard of Bethlehem Elementary School, where she and her late owner, former Principal Dawn Hochsprung, nurtured and inspired countless students and colleagues. Hochsprung

BY MICHAEL CHAIKEN REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN 27 You could say the Spring Hill Arts Gathering is another step in the evolution of Stephanie Ingrassia’s residency in the town of Washington, Conn. CONTRIBUTED This will be the fourth year Spring Hill Vineyard in New Preston has hosted a cultural arts festival. This is a scene from a previous year’s edition. The arts event, which returns for its fourth year this weekend and next, was the idea of Ingrassia, who co-founded Spring Hill Vineyard of New P...