Lobster Days + Mystic Seaport. Memorial Day weekend is upon us.
Mystic Seaport presents the first official taste of summer this month during the annual Lobster Days festivities! Memorial Day weekend kicks off summer with lobsters in the rough, served picnic-style overlooking the Mystic River. Bibs provided, don’t worry. Bring someone special, hang out under the Boat Shed and watch the boats go by, breathe the sea air, relax...
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Putnam First Fridays return for the season, May 3.
It’s that time of year again – First Fridays in Putnam are kicking off this weekend! Friday, May 3 is the beginning of the season, and we are so ready. This is one of the best events in the Quiet Corner, mostly because we love Putnam! You’ll find it all here – art, food, wine, theater, shopping, antiques. This is a celebration of all we have to...
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New Program. Eastern Connecticut’s rich mill history is ready for you to explore.
Driving into Willimantic over the famous Frog Bridge one is surrounded by America’s industrial history. Note that those elegantly perched frogs are sitting atop thread spools. Willimantic was once a thriving textile mill city, home to American Thread, and the buildings that once housed the industry still stand today. According to the Windham Textile...
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February vacation week, simplified. Mystic Country has all your family activities for the week.
If you’re looking for something to do with the kids’ vacation week, start with the Weird Science event at the Mystic Aquarium. From Saturday, Feb. 16 through Sunday, Feb. 24 the Aquarium team of educators, along with Keith Michael Johnson’s Bubbleology and Mad Science of Eastern Connecticut, will demonstrate weird and wacky science experiments and...
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Small town. Big food. Niantic – East Lyme 2013 Restaurant Week, Jan. 21-27.
It’s a New Year’s resolution come true in Niantic/East Lyme – the long awaited Restaurant Week is on the horizon! Our waterfront village is showcasing their food offerings from January 21-27, with about 30 of the town’s popular eateries participating. This is no typical restaurant week – what about our little piece of the world is typical, after...
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Celebrate freedom on New Year’s Day at Norwich’s Emancipation Proclamation Celebration.
Spend your New Year’s Day in Norwich – 150 years ago. On Jan. 1, 2013 Norwich will hold an anniversary celebration re-enacting the city’s celebration of the official end of slavery January 1, 1863. This is a creative and educational way to usher in the new year, and to pay tribute to an important turning point in our nation’s history. Norwich...
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Olde Mistick Village and Mystic Aquarium light up the holiday season, this Friday night, Dec. 7.
Olde Mistick Village and the Mystic Aquarium will light up to celebrate the holiday season this Friday, Dec. 7 during the Festival of Lights. It’s an Olde Mistick Village tradition, started in 1986. Add the Aquarium and you’ve got a fun night ahead. Over 4,000 luminaries will light the pathways throughout the shopping village and aquarium from dusk...
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Experience the magic of Christmas long ago at the Florence Griswold Museum.
See what Christmas looked like in 1910 with the Magic of Christmas, A Holiday Tradition. Take a pre (or post!) Christmas trip to the Florence Griswold Museum’s Griswold House (where the Lyme Art Colony artists lived) for a deeper appreciation of the holiday season long ago. Historically accurate holiday decor brings you back to times when decorations required...
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Light up your night. Eastern Connecticut’s best holiday light parades and village strolls.
Bundle up and enjoy the night. It’s time for the region’s many lighted holiday parades, street festivals, carnivals and strolls. Check links for times. Some events start during daylight hours: Nov. 24 — Mystic Tree Lighting and Holiday Light Boat Parade, Mystic Nov. 24 — Norwich Winterfest Parade and Town Hall Lighting, Norwich Nov 24...
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Celebrate holiday traditions at Mystic Seaport with a Lantern Light Tour.
Christmas Eve, 1876. It even sounds magical – and guests are invited to Mystic Seaport this holiday season to experience it for themselves by taking part in a Lantern Light Tour. A holiday tradition at the Seaport, the Lantern Light Tour takes visitors through the village of Greenmanville on the night before Christmas, complete with all the sounds, scents...
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