• "Esso Tanks and Trucks" by Milton Bellin of New Haven under the WPA program in the late 1930s.
    Collection of the Slater Memorial Museum of Norwich Free Academy
  • A 1920 first edition of "The Story of Doctor Dolittle" by Killingworth resident Hugh Lofting.
  • Longtime Stonington summer residence of award-winning poet James Merrill from 1956 until his death.
    Photo Rachel Carley
  • Raggedy Ann was the 1915 creation of Johnny Gruelle, who lived in the Silvermine community.
    The first edition of "Raggedy Ann Stories" was published in 1918.
  • Surrealist Kay Sage lived in Woodbury when she painted "The Instant" in 1949.
    Collection of the Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
  • Sculptural fireplace designed by Josef Albers in 1952 for architect King-lui Wu’s Rouse House in North Haven.
    Photo Bob Gregson
  • Sculpture field at Stonewalls, David Hayes home and studio in Coventry beginning in the 1970s.
    Photo Preservation Connecticut
  • Danbury resident Marian Anderson in rehearsal in 1947 with Leonard Bernstein, who later moved to CT.
    Courtesy Library of Congress