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I'm Ann Nyberg, and I live for the "find." I'm constantly uncovering remarkable people and places in Connecticut. My passion is sharing these stories with you.
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Love Your Local Library
Have you been inside your local library lately? If you haven’t, go in and take a look around, yes, I know you will be surrounded by those ancient things called books, but go in anyway and take it all in.
I did this the other day at the gorgeous New Haven Free Library. I was there to host a talk… Continue reading
Chowder and Merriment in Olde Mistick Village
Taking on 27 different chowders from Connecticut and Rhode Island shoreline restaurants in one afternoon at the Ninth Annual Cabin Fever Festival and Charity Chowder Cook-off, yep I was up to the task. I got to judge the best of the best chowders with three other hearty New Englanders. We were bundled up in winds that would blow most away… Continue reading
Anna’s Creations Will “Floor” You!
This is just a great idea, period. Anna Amore of Amore Floor Covering and Design Center and Photographer and media specialist, Paul Tortora are making beautiful pictures together. In 2009 a light bulb went off in Anna’s head to take carpeting and flooring and tiles and make fashion out of it and put these creations on mannequins and then real live… Continue reading
The Market @Venetucci Home
Anthony Venetucci has been in the furnishings and design business along the Connecticut shoreline in Westbrook for nearly twenty years. His business is called Venetucci Home. I was introduced to him years ago by my friend Missy who was an interior designer at the time. “Tony” as she learned right away just has an eye for really fun beautiful… Continue reading
Connecticut’s “Little Poland”
Connecticut is a state of nearly 3 million people. Among its residents nearly 50 major ethnic groups all living together in the Constitution state. In the city of New Britain, Connecticut there is a very strong Polish community made up of about 15,000 Poles. As with all ethnicities, it’s the rich traditions that are so important when living away from… Continue reading
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From Perfume To Furniture
I just eat this history stuff up in Connecticut. Did you know that the long time Carroll Cut-Rate Furniture in West Haven,...
Anna’s Creations Will “Floor” You!
This is just a great idea, period. Anna Amore of Amore Floor Covering and Design Center and Photographer and media...
The Victorian Lady and The Bubble Master
These two have the whole world in their hands, well actually in this case it's a bubble. Meet Casey and Kandie Carle of East...
Rich Is The “Wood Wiz”
Rich Ramagli of Madison, Connecticut loves to work with raw wood, in particular wood with "rich" grains like oak, because he...
AJ Jansen Is A Country Rebel Rose
At six years old AJ Jansen, growing up in Torrington, Connecticut, got on stage at school and started singing and there has...
