The United, in partnership with the Yellow Farmhouse Education Center, has formed a second series highlighting local food, which will kick off May 19 with a program that will showcase the Mystic-to-We...

Each summer as domestic fresh produce starts to roll back into the supermarkets, my appetite gets fired up for more fruits and veggies. In my own garden, I can hardly keep up with the demand. Last yea...

Most creatures that hibernate — bears, bats, marmots, groundhogs and so on — have by now emerged into the burgeoning vernal warmth. It’s May, after all. Not so with the creature called David Handler. ...

Ideas about what’s beautiful can change in unpredictable ways. Consider the art of Beatrice Cuming, a painter who spent much of her career in New London. She chronicled her era in vibrant scenes tha...