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Get out your calendars: This week is a busy one on the Cape and Islands with Nantucket Book Festival, Sandwich car show, a Broadway benefit and more.

Donnaldson Brown, a longtime resident of New Marlborough and Brooklyn, N.Y., will celebrate the publication of "Because I Loved You" at 2 p.m. April 8 at Barnes and Noble. Brown

By LORI RILEY | Hartford Courant | Published: May 14, 2021 HARTFORD, Conn. (Tribune News Service) — When Karl Rohde was 11 years old, a pony at a birthday party knocked him over and stepped on him. A few years later, a horse ran away with him on a trail ride through brambles and brush, tearing his clothes and cutting his face. From then on, Rohde hated horses. Rohde, a Vietnam veteran, is currently the director of the Putnam County (N.Y.) Veterans Service Agency. As a veterans’ service officer, he recommends different programs to veterans in order to help with post-traumatic stress dis...

Horses helping CT health workers cope with COVID stress FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 From left, Jane Strong, executive director, The Equus Effect and Tanya Mary Smith, BSN, RNThe Equus Effect /Show MoreShow Less 2of6 3of6 5of6 6of6 SHARON — Through The Equus Effect, frontline health workers are learning coping strategies to help them get through the coronavirus pandemic and other stressful situations in their lives. The Equus Effect is a nonprofit organization originally started in 2013 with veterans, and first responders and frontline health workers have been added in recent years. The organi...