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Shepaug
8 NEIGHBORS WITH
Dam
In icy winter, more bald NAMES
eagles (left) congregate The combination of
at the Shepaug Dam in Litchfield Hills’ rural
Southbury than almost any beauty and the easy
other place in New England. proximity to New York
Camouflaged blinds let bird- City conspire to make
watchers get close-up views. it the home of many
celebrities. Among the
residents over the years
have been sculptor
Alexander Calder, chef
Jacques Pepin, author
William Styron, and
a number of actors,
including Meryl Streep.

NEED TO KNOW
MAP B4–5
Mount Tom State Park:
Rte 202, Litchfield; 860
567 8870; open daily;
adm
Farmington River
Tubing: 92 Main St, New
Hartford; 860 693 6465;
open late May–early
Sep; adm
Kent Falls State Park:
Rte 7, Kent; 860 927
Institute for
Housatonic
7 9 3238; open daily; adm
American
River
Lime Rock Park: 60 White
As the Housatonic River Indian Studies Hollow Rd, Lakeville; 860
approaches the covered Tucked high into the hilly 435 5000; open Apr–Oct;
bridge at West Cornwall, woods of Washington, adm
it enters a 12-mile (19- this facility re-creates a Shepaug Dam Bald
km) stretch that many pre-European-contact Eagle Observation Area:
rank the best fly-fishing Algonkian village. With River Rd, Southbury;
in the eastern US. Join a collection of artifacts 860 895 6468; open late
sportsmen from around dating back 10,000 years, Dec–mid-Mar; bookings
44 are required
Norfolk New England trying their it’s the perfect spot to
7 Winsted luck here in the spring. learn about the wood- Institute for American
63
8 lands culture of north- Indian Studies: 38 Curtis
Cornwall
Bridge Torrington western Connecticut. Rd, Washington; 860 868
Litchfield 0518; open daily; adm
Woodbury
Kent 202 0
New Preston Thomaston Join collectors and • Visit the gardens of
Washington interior decorators as White Flower Farm (167
they scour Woodbury’s Litchfield Rd, Morris;
New Woodbury Waterbury 860 567 8789) on Rte 63
Milford 8 40-plus antiques dealers.
84 south of Litchfield.
Southbury In the village center,
check out late-18th- • Eat barbecued meats
Danbury century style at the at The Cookhouse in
historic Glebe House New Milford (see p101).
Museum (left) (see p98).
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