Cuddle up to an alpaca this weekend during National Alpaca Open Farm Days.
If you’ve been dreaming of meeting an alpaca up close and personal, you’ll want to take a trip to eastern Connecticut this weekend. We’re celebrating National Alpaca Open Farm Days on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 29-30. If you’ve never met an alpaca, you don’t know what you’re missing. The gentle, sweet animals resemble llamas and are known for their...
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Go green this weekend. The Last Green Festival, 80+ bands & 0 waste.
This weekend is a BIG and fun one for music, entertainment and green living. The Last Green Festival, three days of art, music, film and food happening Sept. 28-30 at the Brooklyn Agricultural Fairgrounds, will be New England’s first environmentally-focused zero waste event (go green in the Last Green Valley) - and it will feature some big names. More than...
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Civil War Living History, this weekend at Roseland Cottage.
Visit eastern Connecticut’s Quiet Corner Sept. 22-23, 2012 for a trip into history. Roseland Cottage in Woodstock will host their annual Civil War Living History Weekend, with hands-on activities, demonstrations and presentations geared to help visitors experience what life was like during that time in our past. Artillery demos, marching and drills, presentations...
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It’s all about the garlic this weekend. The Fifth Annual Garlic Festival.
The Fifth Annual Garlic Festival is coming again to Olde Mistick Village in Mystic September 15-16. No breath mints required if you love garlic as much as I do. Five years later, this is still one of the favorite festivals in eastern Connecticut. And while the garlic crazed are over the moon, there’s plenty of reasons for everyone to attend. The event is...
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BESTS of Mystic Country. Yankee and Connecticut Magazine’s 2012 picks.
Noah’s Restaurant, Stonington It’s that time of year again–we’re celebrating the best of the best in our region. And boy, is this list long. Take a look then start planning your next trip. If you hurry, you can cross everything off before next year’s list is released! From Yankee Magazine – Best Quiet Place:...
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Tantalize your tastebuds this weekend. A Taste of Mystic, Sept. 7-9.
Your tastebuds are in for their annual treat this weekend at the Taste of Mystic. Local eateries line downtown with samples of their best dishes, from Asian cuisine to pizza to seafood to desserts…you get the idea. Cottrell Street, which runs along the river in downtown Mystic, will be transformed into a foodie’s delight. Locals look forward to this event...
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Food, family, fun, agriculture, music. The Woodstock Fair, Labor Day weekend.
Labor Day weekend in the Quiet Corner of eastern Connecticut always means the Woodstock Fair, one of the region’s favorite ways to usher in the fall season. It just has that New England, fall-y feel–you know what I mean if you’ve visited. The fair runs Friday through Monday, and doors open at 9 a.m. The 50-acre fair promises its usual attractions:...
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A Connecticut favorite. The Brooklyn Fair, August 23-26.
One of the Quiet Corner’s biggest end-of-summer events is on tap for this coming weekend. The Brooklyn Fair, known for the big name country stars it draws to its stage every year, is happening this Thursday through Sunday, August 23-26, 2012 in Brooklyn, CT. It is, btw, the OLDEST agricultural fair in the USA. This year, Jack Ingram, Tyler Farr and Steve Holy...
Continue ReadingThe Last Green Festival in Brooklyn September 28-30, 2012. Music, food and fun in celebration of The Last Green Valley.
The Last Green Festival from Wirtalla Visual on Vimeo. Celebration Time in the Last Green Valley. In Heinlein’s classic science fiction story The Green Hills of Earth a blind song writer, “Noisy” Rhysling, struggles to return from a far away galaxy to the peace of his beloved earth. Just as in Llewellyn’s How Green was My Valley the emphasis is on...
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The street is your museum. The Mystic Outdoor Art Festival, this weekend.
Every summer, Mystic lines its downtown with creativity for the juried Mystic Outdoor Art Festival. This Saturday and Sunday (Aug. 10-11, 2012), over 250 artists will display their work, from watercolors to photography to oils and more for people to peruse while they stroll the streets. And stroll them they do – the festival is a favorite among locals...
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