'An extraordinary silver lining': Ridgefield designated as state's first 'cultural district' Alyssa Seidman FacebookTwitterEmail RIDGEFIELD — Gov. Ned Lamont paid a special visit to Ridgefield on Friday to celebrate the town’s achievement in becoming the first municipality in the state with a designated “cultural district.” A small, mostly maskless crowd gathered outside The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum on Main Street for a news conference marking the occasion. “A lot of people have rediscovered Connecticut ... and what makes this state so great,” Lamont said. “It’s our culture, it’s our history, it’s our values. ... It just shows you that sometimes there are silver linings, and this is an extraordinary silver lining for the state.”