Seasons Of Connecticut: A Year-round Celebration Of The Nutmeg State

Seasons of Connecticut  is a beautiful, four color celebration of the Nutmeg state by a veteran television and radio reporter who has told the stories of the people and places of Connectiut for twenty years. The sixty stories included in this book will make people feel good about living in Connecticut, and make others want to visit, revealing the beauty and the personality of the state throughout the year.

A beautifully illustrated four-season celebration of the Nutmeg state by
Emmy awardwinning journalist and native Diane Smith

 

Roses displaying their first delicate blooms. Farmer’s markets and sailing regattas. Giant pumpkins in
time for Halloween. A sleigh ride, white churches, and snowy woods. The four seasons are why many of us live in Connecticut and why others visit. In other parts of America, it may be warm or rainy all year, or snowy and cold for lengthy stretches. In Connecticut we take pleasure in four seasons that are distinctly different.

Seasons of Connecticut is a full-color, season-by-season celebration of the Nutmeg state by celebrated television and radio reporter Diane Smith, who has told the stories of the people and places of Connecticut for two decades. She presents more than sixty vignettesinspiring, warm, funny, and sometimes downright strangethat will make you feel good about living in Connecticut, or make you want to visit. From a springtime kite-flying festival to country fair cook-offs in summer, and from fall wine tastings to UConn Huskies basketball in winter, the stories reveal the beauty and the personality of the state throughout the year.

Seasons of Connecticut Sample Table of Contents

 

Spring

Banishing Blight, Bringing Beauty

Connecti-kiters

Cowpies to Cowpots

Connecticut’s Cavalry

By Any Other Name

The Shrine

Master Gardeners

Magnificent Maestro

Living in a Glass House

Doorknockers

Art Refuge

The World Below, The Sky Above

Suited to a Tee

Railroad Revival

Going Batty

 

 

Summer

Two if By Sea

Seas the Day

Ship to Shore

See Shells on the River

Being Beluga

Wish Upon a Sunflower

To Market to Market

Trailer Flash

Blue Ribbon Bakers

Dogged Determination

CT’s Unsolved Mysteries

Tricky Wickets

The Dressing Room

Leaving Lady-Joanne Woodward’s Westport Playhouse

Combos, Conductors and Camp

Best Show in Town

Sweet Life

Urban Oasis

A Paradise for Poetry

Up and Away

 

Fall

Barn Again

Go Take a Hike

Ballet of Angels and the Land of Nod, Along the CT Wine Trail

History Detectives

Fruits of their Labor

Whimsical Winvian

We Love A (Helium Balloon) Parade

Walking Weekend

High School Hovercraft

Prison Tails

Putting the Pieces Together -American mural project

Home is Where the Art Is

Hay Is for Horses and Houses

 

Winter

My Little Chickadee

Blades of Gold

A Nice Cuppa

Rock” Stars

The Iceman Cometh

Connecticut’s Tropical Zone

Exploring the Depths

Simply Purr-fect

Welcome to the Wheel World

Whispers from the Past

Connecticut’s Other Huskies

Dashing Through the Snow

Diane Smith, an Emmy-award-winning TV journalist, is the author of four previous Globe Pequot books, including Summer in Connecticut and Christmas in Connecticut. Complementing her twenty-year series Positively Connecticut, Diane’s latest program for Connecticut Public TV is the weekly All Things Connecticut. Diane was previously cohost of the top rated Morning Show on WTIC-AM News Talk 1080, and a news anchor and reporter at WTNH-TV in New Haven. She lives in West Hartford and East Norwalk, Connecticut.  Diane is a 2010 recipient of the State of Connecticut Governor's Award for Excellence in Culture and Tourism, presented by the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. 

Publisher: Globe Pequot
Distributor: The Globe Pequot Press
Publication Date: 06-15-2010
Pages: 192
Measurements: 11.00in X 8.50in