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FROM O UR PR ES ID EN T As a little kid in Pound Ridge, the first I ever heard of Superman, was in the context of there being a real guy...who had fallen off a horse and was paralyzed in a wheelchair...who lived in Bedford...who was a dad just like mine...who had a boy who was only a couple of years older than me...who lived on the same street as three of my friends - all really close to home for me. That boy was Will Reeve and, although we didn’t know each other, I felt a definite empathy for him when his dad Chris passed, and an even deeper pain when his mom died of cancer less than two years later. Like everyone touched by the story, I’ve rooted for Will, and was pretty blown away when he started at Good Morning America! And then Will became an Instagram sensation after having accidentally appeared on GMA in his underwear - he insists they were his running shorts - at the beginning of the pandemic. Will Reeve’s story is as positive and local as it gets!

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This issue’s feature on Art @ The Glass House is an inside look at the amazing paintings and sculpture housed in two relatively obscure buildings on the property at The Glass House, Phillip Johnson’s masterpiece in New Canaan. We knew it would be interesting to bring the collection to light...and then we found hidden treasure! Since Covid remains, we thought it would be fun to start covering local escapes, that can be launched from home, and that can be accomplished in a socially distanced way. I got a ‘ticket to ride’ in The Porsche Driving Experience up at Lime Rock - and hope it makes you feel like you got out of the house and out onto the track or at least gives you the impetus to take a road trip of your own. And our local charity feature in this issue is on Debbie McQuilkin and The Storm hockey team of the American Special Hockey Association she founded and runs. As I’ve noted before, it’s my hope that after reading each issue of Bedford & New Canaan Magazine each reader will take a moment to think positive, take stock of our community, and consider some act of giving to a local charity or other good cause. We hope you will consider giving to The Storm - and that maybe one or a few readers decide to adopt McQuilkin’s mission. Again, our magazine is mailed to you - for free! We’re grateful for the reviews we receive. Please let our advertisers know that seeing their ad in our magazine motivated you. Please go online at bedfordnewcanaanmag. com and to our Instagram @bedfordnewcanaanmag, and let us know what you like and don’t like, or if you have an idea about something local we should cover. Truly yours,

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AU TH ORS MICHAEL KAPLAN , a real estate developer and broker, entrepreneur, and attorney, recently acquired the 16-year-old Bedford Magazine and serves as the Publisher of B&NC Mag. He enjoys exploring the personality and substance of notable locals, including Martha Stewart, Michael Steinhardt, JC Chandor, John Buschemi, and Ralph Lauren and, in this issue, B&NC Mag Jan/Feb cover feature Will Reeve. RACHAEL PALACIOS has a Master’s in Art History and developed professional specialties in Post-War and Contemporary Art, American Prints and Latin American Art working at Hirschl & Adler Galleries and then at Sotheby’s. She’s been a contributing editor to Art New England, iW Magazine, and Revolution, among other publications. Rachael is the Director at Heather Gaudio Fine Art, a contemporary art gallery in New Canaan. SUE DE CHIARA, B&NC MAG HOMES EDITOR, is an artist, entrepreneur, and seasoned interior design blogger, who loves to provide her readers with up-to-date home decor and fashion advice. She is a former Pound Ridger and a long-term New Canaanite. Founded in 2009, The Zhush (thezhush.com and @Zhush) now attracts thousands of weekly readers eager for updates and inspiration on interior design, fashion, beauty, art, and so much more. In Acorn Hill, Sue checks out a walk-to-town house and gets to know the interesting owners. MARC FLEISHER is a big-league sports agent, who played hockey at Denison. Marc and his wife, Joanne, raised their kids Sean and Julia in New Canaan. Marc did his time as a Hockey Dad, with Sean playing organized hockey in New Canaan, and then at Millbrook and Trinity. Marc runs Entersport, which has a 30+ year track record representing professional athletes in America and Europe in all facets of their development, draft, contract negotiation, management and marketing. Marc has represented over 100 NBA players, including dozens of first and second round draft picks, and five Hall of Famers, including Vlade Divac and Dino Radja. Marc is widely recognized for bringing the first wave of international players to the NBA, starting in 1989, forever changing the League. ASHLEY RUSHTON is a luxury lifestyle fashion blogger, also known as @styleelyst, who lives in New Canaan. Despite Covid, Ashley and Bobby Rushton were married at the Country Club of New Canaan on September 19, 2020, in an affair reduced in size, but enhanced by Ashley’s keen personal style and Stylee Lyst contacts.

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2 0 . ART @ THE GLASS HOUSE B&NC Mag gets an insider’s look at Philip Johnson’s amazing collection of masterpieces, stored in relative obscurity at one of the most famous houses in the architectural world. Art expert, Rachael Palacios, from the Heather Gaudio Fine Art Gallery, gives a curated tour of the collection in both the Painting Gallery/Bunker and the Sculpture Gallery - and finds hidden treasure!

3 0 . THE STORM No ordinary Hockey Mom, Debbie McQuilkin, founded and runs The Storm Hockey in the American Special Hockey Association for young adults with disabilities. Marc Fleisher, a big-time sports agent, long-time New Canaan resident, and former hockey-dad, got a look at this impressive charitable organization at work one fall Sunday… and Chris Kreider of the New York Rangers showed up!

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WILL REEVE: SUPERMAN’S SON

Christopher Reeve’s son, Will Reeve, tells B&NC Mag about what it was like growing up in Bedford, living through his parents’ tragic deaths, and his current fame on Good Morning America.

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JUDY RICHTER AT COKER FARM

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WILL REEVE: SUPERMAN’S SON

Christopher Reeve’s son, Will Reeve, tells B&NC Mag about what it was like growing up in Bedford, living through his parents’ tragic deaths, and his current fame on Good Morning America.

A R MON K , N Y · $6,700,000

K ATON A H , N Y · $5,950,000

N E W C A N A A N , C T · $5, 395,000

B EDFOR D, N Y · $5, 250,000

A R MON K , N Y · $ 4,450,000

N E W C A N A A N , C T · $ 4,195,000

N E W C A N A A N , C T · $3,795,000

A R MON K , N Y · $2,74 0,000

K ATON A H , N Y · $1,975,000

B EDFOR D, N Y · $1,880,000

NORTH SA LEM , N Y · $1,875,000

NORTH SA LEM , N Y · $1,450,000

Grand custom-built European-inspired estate with infinity pool, pool house and pond. Set on 7.87 secluded acres. WEB# BM2765452 | 914.273.9505

Completely private Bedford Estate Compound with inviting pool, pool house and tennis court. WEB# BM2783642 | 914.234.9099

Mount Holly Farm. Pre-revolutionary Colonial on 17+ acres. 8,000+ square feet of finely detailed interior space. WEB# BM2790532 | 914.234.9099

Strikingly elegant brick Colonial surrounded in park-like gardens with an inviting pool. WEB# BM2776542 | 914.273.9505

Designed by Wadia Associates and built by Country Club Homes Inc. This home is an architectural masterpiece. WEB# BM2771302 | 203.966.3507

This custom-built home showcases luxurious details, spacious updated living spaces and an abundance of amenities. WEB# BM2748052 | 203.966.3507

6 7. BORN IN 2020 COVID be damned, these featured local businesses dared to open for business in 2020, and each one has good news to report!

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Gorgeous curb appeal located on New Canaan’s prestigious Golden Mile. Unparalleled quality built Alex Kaali-Nagy. WEB# BM2786402 | 203.966.3507

This European style brick Colonial is complete with courtyard and pool on over three magnificent private acres. WEB# BM2498072 | 914.273.9505

Long private drive to this one-of-a kind Mediterranean five-bedroom home with pool. WEB# BM2794132 | 914.232.5007

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Most in the area are familiar with the gem that is The Glass House; Philip Johnson’s modernist landmark residence gracing the New Canaan landscape. Few, however, may be aware of the treasures buried deep, quite literally, beneath the bucolic compound. Over a period of forty plus years, Johnson acquired a massive paintings and sculpture collection with the assistance of life partner and artworld insider David Whitney. Whitney worked at MoMA, Green Gallery, Leo Castelli gallery (Castelli was the noted art dealer who launched and established the illustrious careers of Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, among others), was a studio assistant to Jasper Johns, held curatorial positions at several distinguished institutions including the Whitney Museum of Art (no relation to the name) and even ran his own gallery. As a champion of contemporary art, he had a knack for recognizing emerging talent and his keen eye and knowledge informed Johnson’s collecting. And on a personal level, Whitney’s close relationships and friendships made their way into the Johnson/ Whitney creative partnership. The Glass House became a contemporary salon of sorts, with Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Jasper Johns, Brice Marden, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, among other talents, spending many a weekend discussing artistic thoughts, processes, music, dance, etc. Oh, to have been a fly on that wall….or an art student...or art collector...or society columnist...

Andy Warhol, Philip Johnson, 1972

Whitney’s role as art advisor to Johnson cannot be understated. Johnson is notably quoted as saying: “David is my contemporary art. I don’t pretend to have an original eye.” Thirty-three years younger than Johnson, Whitney brought a fresh perspective to the architect. During their forty-five years together, they amassed a collection of over two thousand paintings, drawings and sculpture. Most of the works were donated to MoMA during Johnson’s lifetime, a move that shaped and cemented the Museum’s Post-War collection. Fortunately, art enthusiasts in our area don’t have to trek to Midtown, as several dozen significant artworks remain on the 49-acre property for all to delight.

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Andy Warhol kissing Philip Johnson, 1979

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Andy Warhol, Philip Johnson, 1972

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Andy Warhol kissing Philip Johnson, 1979

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Behind one such rotating wall is Robert Rauschenberg’s Recital from 1980. This work belongs to the Spread series, a grouping that references earlier Combines, (the Cardboards, Hoarfrosts, and Jammers), bringing together the artist’s famed motifs, techniques and materials. The impetus for the creation of this series was a mid-career retrospective held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. in 1976. In preparing for this exhibition, Rauschenberg re-visited works he had not seen in twenty-five years, an exercise that was to take him on an eightyear trip down memory lane (1975-1983.) His newly found inspiration translated to oversized autobiographical panels: the solvent transferred media images mixed with brighter blocks of fabric and assembled with found objects (in this case the working fan) reflect his then current life in Captiva Island. Recital was not the first Rauschenberg Philip Johnson owned. He acquired the Combine First Landing Jump years earlier and donated it to MoMA, making it the first Rauschenberg to enter the museum’s collection.

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In 1965 Johnson designed and built the Painting Gallery to exhibit and store the growing collection. More suitable to hang art than the transparent Glass Home allows, the building is a climate-controlled bunker-like structure, pressed into the earth, looking more like an ancient crypt than a traditional art gallery. A vestibule leads to an open rotunda, where six expansive walls display monumental works alongside smaller ones. What lies hidden behind these carpeted walls (a practical surface masking installation marks from swapping works out) are three round chambers acting as oversized carrousels.

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Each contains racks holding an impressive collection of oversized and smaller-scaled works. In all, there are fortytwo panels - with six on display in the gallery. This brilliant movable storage system ensures the art can safely be viewed and switched with minimized risk. The Painting Gallery bunker from above.

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Julian Schnabel, L’amour Carmen Iris Rivera, 1967-1986, 1986

Julian Schnabel, Marriage Painting, 1986 Photo: Marques

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A more astute, if not cerebral, installation is Frank Stella’s pin-striped silver Averroes, 1960, one of the artist’s first shaped canvases. Situated on the back wall, the painting is the first work visible when opening the gallery doors. Stella famously stated the Minimalist credo, “What you see is what you see” and that is exactly what this is. Averroes was the first artwork Whitney advised Johnson to acquire when they saw it hanging in the Four Seasons restaurant.

Moving on to the Sculpture Gallery, built in 1970, an angular, skylit building, which functions as just that, a place to view sculpture. Safety codes prevent the visitor from venturing down the rail-less steps, but the top level affords a good view of Stella’s [left] Raft of the Medusa, Part I, 1990, and Robert Morris’ L-Beams (1965-70) [Below].

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Frank Stella, Averroes, 1960 Photo: Marques

David Salle, Miner, 1985 Photo: Marques

Today, The Glass House has sixteen works by Stella, dating from 1960 to 2004, ranging from smaller works to larger paintings and sculptures. The artist’s development from rigidly painted canvases to additive wall-mounted reliefs, sculptures, structures and maquettes were to become an influence in Johnson’s architecture, most notably in Da Monsta, 1995, the last structure built on the property.

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Be not dismissive of the less impressively scaled Neon Templates of the Left Half of My Body Taken at Ten Inch Intervals, 1966, by Bruce Nauman. This is arguably The Glass House’s most important work in the collection, a neon wallmounted sculpture that reveals the artist’s preoccupation with his own body as medium and subject matter. Whitney organized Nauman’s first solo exhibition at Leo Castelli gallery back in 1966, a show that launched the artist’s career and took him onto the international museum stage. Since then this work has been exhibited in over 45 national and international venues.

Da Monsta, 1995 Photo: Shaffer Hudson

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Frank Stella, Khar-Pidda, 1978

Frank Stella, Grajau I, 1975

Frank Stella, New Caledonian Lorikeet, 1977

...Down the rail-less steps in the Sculpture Gallery, beyond the Nauman, and turning back under the top level viewing area...there’s an underground gallery, housing additional works, that has never been open to the public. Buried treasure! Completely hidden from public view, are Stella’s Grajau I, 1975, from the artist’s Brazilian series, New Caledonian Lorikeet, 1977, from the artist’s Exotic Birds series and Khar Pidda, 1978, from Stella’s Indian Birds series.

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Johnson and Whitney were great visionaries and patrons of the arts, bequeathing the vast majority of their collections to MoMA, the Menil Collection and other institutions. But what lies below at The Glass House - in the Painting Gallery - remains itself an important museum of modern art. The Glass House is a National Trust Historic Site located in New Canaan, CT. Please visit www.theglasshouse.org to visit, participate, and contribute. Photo: Marques

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Chris Kreider New York Rangers This year, Kreider has been volunteering - for the pleasure of being with these kids. NY Ranger Chris Drury has also done some Storm clinics in the past.

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By Marc Fleisher Debbie McQuilkin grew up in Lakewood, Washington, the daughter of a commercial fisherman. “Sometimes there was lots to eat, sometimes not so much.” A roommate in Spokane introduced her to her husband, Kevin McQuilkin, and the young couple moved East in ’87, married in ’88, and moved to New Canaan in 1990. Their first house in New Canaan was on Millport Road, then a decade in a bigger house on Ponus Ridge, before they ‘bought the farm’ in 2011 - They’re the folks who own the Abby Normal Farm on Oenoke Ridge - the Federalist red brick mansion with the great red barns and the alpacas. Their four kids, Colin (’89), Austin (’92), Kieran (’93), and Molly (’97), all started in the New Canaan public schools and then went to King Low Heywood. Colin went on to Kevin’s alma mater Gonzaga, Austin to Loyola Maryland, Kieran to Washington & Lee, and Molly is currently a senior at Gonzaga. All three McQuilkin boys played hockey at the Winter Club, and Colin and Kieran played for King…while Debbie played the dutiful ‘hockey mom’. She was managing a team at the Winter Club in New Canaan in 2006, when she filled a garage with used hockey equipment from a charity drive. A round of calls led her to the American Special Hockey Association’s then President, Mike Hickey, who suggested Debbie use the equipment to start a team within ASHA. Debbie told Hickey “But I don’t have a child with a disability”; Hickey responded saying “Right, if you did you wouldn’t have time to run one of these teams”, and; Debbie, on that first call, and immediately impacted by Hickey’s point, determined “OK, I’ll do it!” “I knew I needed someone to actually run the hockey, so my first call was to John Corcoran, who played pro hockey in Sweden and who I knew as a hockey dad around town. That first Summer in 2006: we got ice for a couple of weeks in Darien; we had 6 kids, who we put in the equipment from the Winter Club charity drive and some other borrowed stuff; we had a couple of coaches, and; my boys helped out. It was magical for sure! The next step was to find ice for a regular season, and the rinks in Darien and Stamford couldn’t find time that would work for our kids. John and Mike Ferguson, who run Wonderland of Ice in Bridgeport, right away allocated our coveted Sunday afternoon ice time, and we ran a program with 10 kids in 2007. That grew to 15 in 2008, and 30 in 2009, and now we’re stabilized at around 60 kids playing every year.”

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“Our whole thing is ‘Life Skills Through Ice Hockey’. Our application asks only: ‘Please provide a short description of your athlete’s disability - this will only be used by our coaching team to better connect with your athlete’. Mostly we have kids with autism, including all ranges on the spectrum. We have a lot of kids with Down Syndrome. Several kids with severe physical challenges. And a few kids with severe ADHD they sometimes move on to play on a typical team. We have kids from all over Fairfield County and upper Westchester. We break the kids into two groups, so we can accommodate those who are struggling to skate or who have trouble following instructions in the group that starts every Sunday at 3:30, and then have a group of more advanced skaters and bigger kids in the group that goes at 4:30.” The size and quality of the program is impressive! Many kids stay on for multiple seasons, but Debbie estimates there may now be about 500 Storm alum! John Corcoran runs The Storm’s 9 person coaching staff (as a tribute to how rewarding the experience is, everyone who has tried coaching is still on the staff). Then, John McCormack runs our mentoring program - mentors are assigned Some of The Storm coaches gather on the ice one-on-one to a different player each week. There’s 90 mentors, who are hockey players from local high schools and colleges, many of whom work for several years and beyond the requirement for a resume entry. Debbie estimates that by now The Storm has involved over 1,000 mentors!

“We go on trips to play away games as well, like against the Raptors in Mamaroneck, but we’ve also had trips to places like Albany, Buffalo, Lake Placid and Maryland. We get buses, and everyone who wants to go and participate, can go. We try to keep the hockey - and the whole experience - as typical as we’re able. Players take ‘shifts’ in ‘lines’ and spend the rest of the time on the ‘bench’, but we don’t have ‘icing’ or ‘offside’, as those are difficult concepts for a lot of our kids. All the teams and coaches are basically in the same mind set and do their best to match opposing player capabilities, and allow players of every level to have some role in the competition. The kids talk about these trips all year long.” “SAM’S BEEN WITH THE STORM FOR 9 YEARS, THE FIRST 6 AS A PLAYER, AND NOW AS A MENTOR. HE PROCESSES SLOWLY, BUT HE’S REALLY DETERMINED. HE LIKES TO BE AROUND FOR HIS BROTHER, MIKEY, WHO HAS ATAXIA AND CAN HARDLY WALK AND STRUGGLES TO STAY UP ON HIS SKATES, BUT WHO IS SHARP AS A WHIP. THEY LOVE BEING ABLE TO DO THIS TOGETHER. THE STORM HAS BEEN A BLESSING FOR US! IT’S THE

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HIGHLIGHT OF THE WEEK FOR MY BOYS AND, IN DIFFERENT WAYS, HAS BEEN CRITICAL FOR EACH OF THEM.” “Sweaty” Mike Bluestein, 17

- Dr. Harvey Bluestein (Sam & ’Sweaty’ Mike’s Dad)

THE STORM HAS AN EXPENSIVE PIECE OF EQUIPMENT CALLED

“For some of our kids, this will be the first time in their life they will play on a team or wear a team jersey with their own name on it. For many it’s the only organized sports team they have tried and a chance to be around other kids like them. Trying something new can be scary, but these kids rise to the occasion! I can’t tell you how many parents say to me ‘Until now, my child would watch hockey, now he gets to play! Kids get on the ice and relax, have fun, make friends, learn skills and make real physical strides! It’s life changing. It makes them feel good about themselves and their many achievements. We play other teams in the area and throw a pizza party after each home game. The kids learn a lot of important social and basic life skills that we take for granted, and they build lifelong friendships.”

A KAYE TRAINER, WHICH HOLDS AN ATHLETE IN A SLING OVER THE ICE AND ALLOWS AS MUCH GRAVITATIONAL PRESSURE TO Sam Bluestein, 22 Student at Sacred Heart University

BE PLACED ON THE LEGS AS DESIRED. THAT’S ‘SWEATY’ MIKE BLUESTEIN GETTING OUT ON THE ICE IN “THE K”.

There’s a $400 admission fee, but scholarship is generously available. Remarkably, The Storm provides the helmets, pads and all other equipment required for every athlete that needs it. They furnish the skates in conjunction with Ferguson’s at Wonderland of Ice, who handles the storage and fittings. (Unusually, The Storm prefers used skates over new, as they tend to be more comfortable.) Debbie amalgamates donated equipment and buys whatever else is necessary, and keeps the equipment inventory in a storage unit on Route 7. Every athlete gets a shell that goes over their own pants, and a jersey with their own name on the back. “I hear from lots of parents that their kids got their first Storm jersey and didn’t take it off for two weeks”, Debbie said, “it’s their pride and joy.” Each athlete gets an equipment bag, and about that Debbie declares, “That’s one of my only rules. Every kid has to pull his own bag.” There are occasional goodies like a team beach towel or hat, and everybody gets a trophy. “The trophies are really important. It’s a symbol of their accomplishment and makes them feel like a winner. The bigger the better. With their name on it.”

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- Dr. Harvey Bluestein (Sam & ’Sweaty’ Mike’s Dad)

THE STORM HAS AN EXPENSIVE PIECE OF EQUIPMENT CALLED

A KAYE TRAINER, WHICH HOLDS AN ATHLETE IN A SLING OVER THE ICE AND ALLOWS AS MUCH GRAVITATIONAL PRESSURE TO Sam Bluestein, 22 Student at Sacred Heart University

BE PLACED ON THE LEGS AS DESIRED. THAT’S ‘SWEATY’ MIKE BLUESTEIN GETTING OUT ON THE ICE IN “THE K”.

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Seamus O’Neill 15 Some of the kids can really play. Seamus has a great wrist shot and he’s vowed to get out of the chair to skate this year.

But all this doesn’t come cheap, and The Storm needs to raise about $25,000 a year to make ends meet. For years, New Canaan resident Boyd Hardin held an annual golf outing at the Country Club of New Canaan, with the proceeds going to The Storm, but that ended in 2019. Debbie is not shy about fundraising, parents solicit contributions, and Board Members, including John Corcoran, Jeff Engborg and New Canaan resident Terry Connors, do what they can to raise funds. Still, donations are required to keep what is formally known as Southern Connecticut Storm Special Hockey, a 501(c)(3), alive and flourishing. As important, having established The Storm as an institution, Debbie is looking to retire as President, Program Director and the force behind The Storm, and for someone new to take the helm. It may take a new hockey super-mom, or it may take a small committee of dedicated volunteers, but Debbie feels it’s time to transition to new leadership. Debbie talks about her 15 years of dedicated hard work on The Storm as though she was the one ‘getting’ all that time. She says, “I feel like I’ve got 60 kids in addition to my own, like I’ve been the hockey mom to each one of them, and shared in the reward of each of their successes”. She has a special humility and grace, and a calm smile that hides the thousands of details she has to bring together to produce The Storm each week and each year. She only directs attention to the Board Members, coaches, mentors and others who’ve helped her make it happen. And Debbie’s husband, Kevin, who has carried a lot of bags of equipment, and showed up just about every Sunday to help out, and chaperoned on all the trips…and kicked-in the bucks to fill the gaps - he says, “It’s one of the best experiences I’ve ever had. Just being around what’s happening out there on the ice makes you feel good. These kids are really inspiring.”

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Andrew Blackwell 14 New Canaan resident Drew unabashedly rushed Kreider (with no penalty called for ‘holding’).

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Seamus O’Neill 15 Some of the kids can really play. Seamus has a great wrist shot and he’s vowed to get out of the chair to skate this year.

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Andrew Blackwell 14 New Canaan resident Drew unabashedly rushed Kreider (with no penalty called for ‘holding’).

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For those of you that do not know, I am a CT-based Lifestyle Blogger – I specifically curate beauty and fashion centric content. I started STYLEE LYST in 2018, and took the brand and business full time in 2019. My website is home to my favorite beauty products, go-to fashion staples and travels alike – I also cultivate content on my Instagram and Pinterest as an influencer.

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I’m a New Canaan native, and went on to study at Arizona State University for my undergraduate degree, and later a master’s in business marketing at Cornell. Each of the jobs in my early career were building blocks for my lifestyle brand. I started in Special Events at Calvin Klein and then transitioned into agency and in-house PR/Marketing for both big box and indie beauty brands. My brand became a natural extension of my interests and strengths, and I’ve worked hard to keep it authentic as it grows and changes.

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I met my husband, Bobby Rushton, in July 2014, and Bobby and I became official on September 19, 2014. He’s from West Islip, Long Island, but now he’s got a pretty good claim on the “Mr. New Canaan” title in addition to the labels “Coach” and “Mr. Rushton” by which he’s commonly known around town. He’s a tenured Third Grade Teacher and Team Leader at South School, the Executive Director of the New Canaan Athletic Foundation, runs the entire New Canaan Wrestling Program, is a Director and a Coach for Eclipse Lacrosse Club, is a Varsity Coach for New Canaan Lacrosse, and sits on the Football and Lacrosse New Canaan Athletic Foundation Boards. We got our first place together - in New Canaan - with our yellow lab, Zeus - in 2016, and were engaged on November 3, 2018. I was already developing STYLEE LYST, and as it grew into my full-time career, the brand also became more intertwined with the wedding. Throughout 2019, Bobby and I worked meticulously to plan each aspect of what was going to be our perfect day. Feeling that we’d chosen the best vendors for a rather lavish wedding, we were psyched to celebrate in June of 2020. We could envision our ceremony on the vast manicured grounds of the Country Club of New Canaan, and a reception in the high-ceilinged ballroom. I chose a classic ‘A-line’ gown from a beautiful shop in Darien, A Little Something White. It wasn’t what I had expected to like, and it was the first dress that I tried on in the store, but after trying on about twenty others, I knew it was the one. ALSW was amazing through the tailoring process, and I grew more and more excited with each fitting. I worked with ALSW to create a custom veil, and chose gorgeous earrings from their ‘Something Old’ collection. Ditching the typical NYC wedding dress shopping was an amazing decision - the ladies at ALSW were extremely knowledgeable, efficient, and kind. And, it felt even better to be working with a local, women-owned business.

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The rest of the winter was filled with selecting a DJ, photographer, videographer, florist, and so many other vendors for our big day. We hired Irene from Soiree Special Events in the home stretch of the planning process, in February 2020, to help with some of the final touches and day-of.

Little did we know, COVID would have other plans… It became apparent early in March that our date, and maybe even our wedding, was in jeopardy. I immediately called Irene and we worked with vendors and our venue to pick a new date as we rushed to make lots of COVID-adjustments. It just so happened that the CCNC had September 19th available, as did all of our vendors - and it was our dating anniversary; it felt serendipitous! At our tasting in July, we were told that we’d have to drastically cut-back the size of our guest list. Our originally planned 210-person wedding was cut back to just family; our parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. We painstakingly had to let our friends and extended family know the news, and it was the hardest part of the adjustment, but everyone was so graceful, empathetic, and understanding. As the day inched closer and closer over the summer, I continued to work on the final touches. After many makeup trial mishaps, I decided to do my own bridal makeup - but not without the help of Melba. Melba owns Eye Coco Studio in Ridgefield and is a lash and brow expert. She worked with me on lash extensions for a few months prior to the wedding, and perfected a set for the big day.

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If you don’t know the story, Will grew up on Great Hill Farms Road on the border of Pound Ridge and Bedford. His dad, Christopher Reeve, who the world knew as Superman, suffered a paralyzing spinal cord injury from an equestrian accident when Will was just 3, and died when Will was only 11. Will’s mom, Dana, an author, actress, singer, and activist, and Christopher’s champion, herself succumbed to lung cancer at 44, less than 2 years after Chris’ death, leaving Will an orphan at 13. Knowing that she was dying, and planning for Will’s future, Dana chose neighbors Ralph and Ann Pucci to adopt Will. And Will was embraced and supported by the community as a whole, and particularly by the folks at Rippowam Cisqua, and then Brunswick. Then Will followed in his mother’s footsteps choosing Middlebury College, where he graduated cum laude with a degree in English and American Literature.

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Fast forward to the present... Will is living his dream as a broadcast journalist at Good Morning America. He’s smart, positive, genuine, humble, socially conscious... was named one of Town & Country’s top 50 bachelors... lives in Gotham... and looks a whole lot like Clark Kent!

I’m not, I’m Christopher and Dana’s son. And I know that my dad is beloved around the world for the role that he played. But I certainly don’t think of myself as Superman’s son. Just like if your mom or dad is a lawyer or accountant or teacher, they don’t come home and go over that day’s work in detail. We weren’t analyzing movies or watching my dad’s clips, we were talking about my homework and whether my room was properly cleaned, and all the things you deal with in every family. I didn’t really grow up around lots of other celebrities – I grew up here in Bedford… although I hear now that lots of famous people like Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively and whoever else live here…but, I was not part of a celebrity culture, and that was an intentional choice by my parents. They never lived in L.A. or subscribed to the Hollywood lifestyle or mentality - in fact they rather loathed it. My parents did everything they could to give me the most normal and healthy childhood they could. That included school, friends, sports, extracurriculars...repeat. I always felt as a kid here that people really respected our privacy and normal lives. My parents were obviously public figures and I’m extremely conscious that there have been inherent perks and advantages that have come along with that. But my parents always instilled in me that we were incredibly lucky and must always be grateful. They taught me not to use our name to get something and never to expect special treatment, and it seemed to me they rejected special treatment more often than not. My mom’s mantra was that ‘you had to give more than you take’. And my dad was paralyzed from the time I was 3, so it’s involved in all the memories I have of him. I did recently watch a documentary he did just before his accident, about the grey whale migration from the Baring Straight down to Baja Mexico. He did that for National Geographic, and I used to watch that with him all the time as a kid. That was probably the closest I came to thinking of my dad as a movie star, or anything more important than being my dad...and whales are still my favorite animal. I did once get to be on Sesame Street when I was in second grade. That was nepotism at work, I was terrible, and I never really had much of an interest in acting. We had a good time – that was a good day, Big Bird and Zoe, me and my dad. But my very famous dad didn’t feel like a celebrity to me.

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TELL US ABOUT THE PUCCI FAMILY AND ABOUT YOUR HALF-SIBLINGS.

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WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE MEMORIES FROM GROWING UP HERE?

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“They are life savers. They are the very best people.” They are my adoptive parents, my guardians, my counselors, my cheerleaders. They are the reason that I was able to emerge from the darkest period of my life – relatively unscathed.

Too many to condense into a usable answer, but I think, in an overarching sense, that my memories are of community, the laughter and the love, and coming to school - here at Ripp - where I felt heard and celebrated and understood. I felt so encouraged in every aspect of my life.

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They were our next door neighbors. Michael and Nicole are both very close to me in age. Michael was my first best friend, and our parents were really close. Michael and Nicole would come over in one of those little red plastic Jeeps and pick me up when we were little. I’ve been tagging along with the Puccis for as long as I can remember. So, ultimately, when my mom was very sick and had to make a decision about what was going to happen to me, she made what was the best decision she ever made as far as I’m concerned...she asked the Puccis to be my guardians...and they said yes! They took me in, and they loved me, not even like a son, they loved me, and do love me, as a son. The Puccis are my family and they always will be. I think their legal jurisdiction over me expired when I turned 18 – which was a decade ago… but when I say ‘I’m going home’ - it’s their house. And I’m really close with my brother Matthew and sister Alexandra, who are my dad’s kids from his relationship with Gae Exton before he met my mom. They’re my half-siblings, but we always say, ‘there’s no half’! They were born and raised in London, but went to college in the U.S. My sister lives in D.C. and my brother lives in L.A., but we try to get together as often as possible. They each have two kids and I think I’m doing a pretty good job being an uncle. It’s really not that hard being an uncle to kids under the age of 5, because I just get to do the fun stuff. But I will say that I’m more than adequate at feeding them, and changing diapers, and even getting them down for naps… I can do the full thing!

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WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE MEMORIES FROM GROWING UP HERE?

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Driving around here, everything I see reminds me of something - an experience with my parents or my friends. Going to movies at the Playhouse was such a treat. And there was nothing better than a half-day Friday at Ripp! My mom would pick me up from school, usually with some friends, we’d stop at the Bedford Village Deli, get my sandwich - the ‘Mr. T’, and eat on the Village Green, and then go to some extra-curricular. It was so innocent and pure... and a whole lot of fun.

HOW DID YOU GET TO BE A BROADCAST JOURNALIST? ANYTHING TO DO WITH YOUR DAD HAVING WORKED AT THE DAILY PLANET? I’ve pretty much always known I wanted to do something pretty much like what I’m doing. The real joke is that I wanted to be a professional athlete...until I realized that I couldn’t be one… so I figured that the next best thing would be talking about sports on TV! I grew up with ESPN on in the house pretty much 24/7, and my parents were huge sports people. I always dreamed of anchoring Sports Center. Through a whole bunch of lucky breaks, I got an internship at Good Morning America in the summer of 2012 - and I was hooked. Being behind the scenes in the organized chaos at GMA, and then putting out this immaculate product, was intoxicating. And I remember the specific day that I knew there was nothing else I wanted to do. I was in the control room during a breaking news situation - it was the Colorado movie theatre shooting. Seeing the reporters act aggressively in pursuit of the facts and the truth, while maintaining respect and sobriety, and putting all of these whirling, whizzing, disparate pieces into a cohesive product - live on television- was like magic! Being a part of that… I realized, yeah, that’s the thing I want to do!

Doing anything with my dad required a lot of planning, so we couldn’t really be spontaneous. But it didn’t deter my parents from living as normal a life as possible. We would go to Dinardo’s in Pound Ridge, and Spacarellis in North Castle, and Luna in Mt. Kisco (I think it became Woody’s on Main). My dad’s 50th birthday party was there, and my mom sang at it. More than any one particular memory growing up here, I remember mostly how growing up here made me feel. I love this town, I love this school, and I love the memories here.

I didn’t think I had the skill set, temperament or patience to go into production, and I’ve always loved to tell stories and write and entertain and perform. I’ve always felt comfortable with public speaking.

In my second summer as an intern at GMA, I stuck around late about once a week or so, and became good friends with the camera crew and stage managers. I would show up with a suit on, and ask the team to stay an extra ten minutes, and I would sit at the anchor desk and have someone run the prompter for me. I managed to make a really professional reel I could send out to news organizations. Lot’s of networking and resumes later, I was introduced to the head of talent at ESPN, who said they were willing to take a chance on me and gave me a start right out of Middlebury.

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I worked at ESPN for a few years, and I’m so grateful to the folks there, and for my time there, for so many reasons. I was a bit of an oddity starting out there because I wasn’t a seasoned broadcast professional or a former athlete or coach. Because that meant there wasn’t always a natural assignment for me, I invented a role. I created this thing we called ‘The Will Reeve Experience’. It was a series of all the cool things that you would dream of getting to do as a sports fan, but would never get to do because you don’t get the access. ...I was a groundskeeper for a day at Wrigley Field, I was a tour guide at Yankee Stadium, I was a cheerleader at Clemson, I was a RUFF/NEK at Oklahoma, I was a yell leader at Texas A&M, I was a bull wrangler at Colorado, I was a ticket taker and pretzel vendor at Michigan, I was a part of the Ohio State Band, I was the Eagle handler at Auburn. ...And I got to anchor Sports Center occasionally! Will interviews Patrick Mahomes II (the quarterback of the KC Chiefs, and 2020 Super Bowl champions) for GMA

WHAT’S THE COOLEST PART OF BEING WITH GOOD MORNING AMERICA? One feature I did that was particularly meaningful for me was getting to meet Chris Barr – who was paralyzed surfing in California and received a cutting edge treatment at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. We were granted access to Barr’s final appointment at the Mayo Clinic... before he was happily kicked out the door.

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I met with Barr, in his wheelchair, and his wife, and I couldn’t help but think of my parents, who had given so many interviews in that exact context... and here I was as the interviewer. They told me about his story, then we met with his doctor, and we did all the perfunctory elements of a day-long TV shoot. ...As things wrapped up, Barr rolled up to me in his wheelchair and… GOT UP!… AND WALKED DOWN THE HALLWAY WITH ME! These were among the first steps he had taken without assistance. I was blown away! I was thrilled for him, and thrilled to have been a personal witness. It was something that I always hoped and dreamed that I would get to see my own dad do...and he never got the chance. Seeing Barr leave his wheelchair left me speechless...and I really don’t remember the rest of the interview. That, and getting to do the final leg of Janne Kouri’s wheelchair ride across America. Janne is an alum of Brunswick, where I went to high school, who went to Georgetown and played football there... and was later paralyzed. He did a ride across America, and I got to join him for the final leg! Robin Roberts had profiled him at GMA a couple times before in his journey to try to walk again, and she so graciously passed the baton to me to tell this part of his story. I got to do the final 40 miles with him – him in his power chair and me on a bike. We finished at the Georgetown Library and I conducted the interview, still all sweaty from the ride! Awesome! Getting to do my job at GMA and bring attention to the spinal cord community at the same time is a highlight of my career and life.

Then there was this one time I remember I was anchoring, and during commercial break I noticed the floor crew, the producers in my ear, the cameramen, my co-anchor - they were all doing their own thing, focusing on whatever was up next in the show. Nobody was treating me with kid gloves. I had a moment where I was looking around the studio, and I said to myself ‘Wow… I’m a part of this… they’re treating me as an equal and I am doing this’. And it wasn’t just a dream. That was a really special moment for me. I’m doing the thing that I’ve really always wanted to do.

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And then there’s the universe of fun and different assignments! ...I’ve gotten to climb glaciers, and descend to the bottom of the Atlantic ocean. I’ve travelled far and wide. I’ve interviewed Will Farrell and Julia Louis Dryfus together, and Billie Eilish. Every day is a new opportunity, and I have to pinch myself and remind myself that this is real.

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YOU’ VE OBVIOUSLY FACED A LOT OF ADVERSITY AND TRAGEDY IN YOUR LIFE, BUT YOU COME ACROSS AS A REALLY POSITIVE PERSON WITH A VERY POSITIVE OUTLOOK.

TELL US ABOUT YOUR WORK ON THE BOARD OF THE REEVE FOUNDATION? My dad’s ultimate dream was a world of empty wheelchairs. I’m really proud to continue my parents’ legacy and to further their mission to find cures for paralysis, and provide quality of life care for affected individuals and families. The spinal cord community is hyper-focused right now on something we call ‘The Big Idea’. Tens of millions of dollars in research in epidural stimulation have led to a device that’s placed at the base of a patient’s spine and sends signals to electrodes that are also surgically implanted in the patient. The technology has already proven successful in resuscitating functions including temperature regulation, bowel and bladder regulation, and sexual function, and even in getting walking muscles working as a part of a rehab regimen with some patients. And right now, we like to say that we are in the ‘1980s cellphone’ version of the stimulator...with all technology improving according to Moore’s law...and the 5G version - and the getting patients up to walk again part - just around the corner.

EVERYONE WE’ VE SPOKEN TO ABOUT YOU LIGHTS UP AT THE MENTION OF YOUR NAME AND HAS NOTHING BUT POSITIVE THINGS TO SAY ABOUT YOU. IS IT A CONSCIOUS DECISION?

As you can imagine, much like anyone else’s life, my life isn’t a string of one green light after another. But I grew up in a house where optimism and positivity were the rule. My parents projected an air of hope and calm. My mom often said ‘there’s not enough time in the day to sit around feeling sorry for yourself’. Does that mean that I don’t have my moments of extreme self-doubt or bad moods? No, I’m very much a human-being, and I have my moments just like anyone else. It’s not a conscious decision for me to be any one way or the other. I think I’m inherently positive. Will with his siblings Alexandra and Matthew at the 2019 Annual Reeve Foundation Fundraiser

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