Culture

For the seventeenth year in a row, Bread For Life held its soup-and-bread dinner this past Wednesday.

This past Saturday downtown Southington was filled with people in various degrees of motion. Some inched patiently along while waiting for apple fritters

Friday evening at 5pm the streets of downtown Southington will be closed to traffic once again as thousands of visitors flock to the Apple Harvest Festival's many attractions.

Crowds gathered downtown under cloudless skies Friday evening and all day Saturday to celebrate the 56th Southington Apple Harvest Festival.

For most people, the idea of a small-town girl living a double life as a musician is nothing more than an entertaining plotline, one reserved for fictional characters like Hannah Montana. For Southington native (and former Camp Sloper counselor) Erin Gibney, however, that idea has become reality.

The two weeks starting September 21st have been designated “Paving The Path Forward To End FTD Weeks..."

For a few hours Friday evening Southington stepped into the cinematic limelight as the town's drive-in played host to the world premier of “Intentional Optimism” – a documentary about the creation of the Bristol-based sports network ESPN.

What should a town do with its undeveloped land? Let it be, to allow nature to recover and give residents more wilderness to enjoy? Or use it for new houses and businesses, to grow the population and the tax base?

This year’s festival, which will be held on the weekends of October 5–7 and 10–12, will feature several novel events and performances.

Encountering a century-old vehicle that is as shiny and new as the day it rolled off the assembly line can trigger memories of a distant era. The noise its engine makes when it turns over can be like the sound of ancient history roaring back to life.

Picture outdoor recess at a typical elementary school. Now raise the number of kids playing outside to one thousand. Divide them into groups and give each group some fun activity – swimming, fishing, archery, hiking, running, drawing, putting on a play, riding a ‘train’ made of golf carts, or playing on a splash pad.

"Taste" can mean to eat or drink something in small quantities, or to become acquainted with something through experience. This week's Taste of Southington embodied both definitions of the word.

The tranquil landscape of barns and meadows that greets drivers at the intersection of Flanders Road and Flanders Street now contains a surprise: three rare cattle whose striking coloration – white belt on a black coat – brings to mind the famous cookie.

Allison and Dipo Oseni Bring LA-style Karaoke to Southington

Photographer John McDonald from CT Drone Source was at the Southington Italian-American Festival.

The Italian ideal of la bella figura: the notion that almost every aspect of life can be turned into a ‘beautiful performance.’  

This recipe cuts, cores, and stuffs zucchini Lebanese-style, hollowing out a tube for stuffing down the middle of a tube.