2025 Trip To Greece
Our October 2025 trip to Greece was divided into four parts: first, exploring Athens, then driving to the cliff-topping Meteora Monasteries, continuing […]
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New Brochure for Topsmead’s Ecology Trail
Many years ago, when Jani was a DEEP employee at Topsmead State Forest, she and Gary resurrected a pamphlet for a nature […]
Bantam River Park Gets a New Banner
Bantam’s Cinema IV has been a cultural destination for many of us for decades. It is the oldest continuously operated Connecticut movie […]
Bike Camping At False Cape State Park, VA
(This is a first-person account of the recent trip we took to the False Cape State Park in Virginia, where we spent […]
April 2021 visit to Vashon Island
Emmett turns 7 and grandsons hunt bullfrogs Since their grandson, Emmett, was born seven years ago, Jani and Gary have tried to […]
April visit to mid-coast Maine
In mid-April, Jani and Gary drove to Maine to visit Jani’s sister Marti, prior to her hip replacement procedure, and to partake […]
Bantam River Park gets a new sign
Jani and Gary work together on the Bantam Historical Society sign which is displayed in the Bantam River Park On July 10, […]
Luca Turns 4!
Wyatt writes: “On January 29, Luca turned 4. He celebrated at the local movie theater with his mom and four friends — […]
Jan. ’21 Trip to Tucson Arizona
Back in the saddle again … at Tanque Verde Ranch Tucson has a special place in our memories. Gary and his siblings […]
Retrospective: Golding family’s Tucson connection
Starting in 1959 and into the early 1960’s, Mel and Rita Golding traveled with Mel’s four children to Rancho Del Rio, a […]
Cousins’ Spotlight: Sophia Bedard
We recently saw some of the artwork that our 14-year-old niece, Sophia Bedard, has been producing, and were impressed with her obvious […]