ABOARD THE GREEN MOUNTAIN FLYER -- Outside the window of car No. 551, the New England countryside passes by in flashes of color, like photographs in a tourism brochure _ blue streams and yellowing trees, white church steeples and red barns, timeworn covered bridges and freshly-wrapped bales of hay.
ABOARD THE GREEN MOUNTAIN FLYER -- Outside the window of car No. 551, the New England countryside passes by in flashes of color, like photographs in a tourism brochure -- blue streams and yellowing trees, white church steeples and red barns, timeworn covered bridges and freshly wrapped bales of hay. ... - By JOHN CURRAN The Associated Press
Bloomsburg Fair. The 152nd annual agricultural event wraps up this weekend with amusement rides, grandstand concerts, carnival midway, livestock and horticultural exhibits, monster truck show, the Rosarie-Zoppe Chimps, Animals of Distinction, horse pulling, an exhibit by the Atlantic Coast Old-Timers Auto Racing Club, dog show, demolition derby and tractor and truck pulling. Today and Saturday, 9
The 90-day demolition delay ordinance is ticking on an application filed Friday to tear down an apartment building on the National Register of Historic Places.
As reds, yellows and oranges burst from the leaves, more green finds its way into the Quiet Corner. Autumn is the busiest time of the year for tourism in northeastern Connecticut and the fall foliage is the primary reason.
Peter Cooper is chef-owner of The Harvest restaurant in Pomfret. He has owned The Harvest for 18 years, where his wife Sharon and family run the restaurant and operate The Mansion at Bald Hill, a bed and breakfast and special occasion reception facility in Woodstock.
Cora Holland will always be the face of September 11th for me. It would be three days before I knew that an acquaintance, the wife of a colleague died on a plane that hit the world trade center. It would be much sooner that the impact hit me personally.