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24 EDITOR’S LETTER 30 FROM THE FOUNDERS Of Mostly Money Matters

We take our annual look at indicators in the market—the highs, the lows, the trends and the taboos. Find out what’s impacting your investment. by c h ri s hode n f i eld

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100 YEARS OF EMPOWERMENT A century ago, a group of impassioned women founded the YWCA Greenwich. Today, the organization carries on its legacy of educating and empowering young minds and championing women’s rights. Hear the stories from the frontlines. by jam i e m a r shall

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MONEY TALK Some of the greatest investment minds of our time took part in the inaugural Greenwich Economic Forum. For two days they explored what’s in store for our economy both locally and globally. Here’s what you should know. b y timothy dum as

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37 STATUS REPORT BUZZ Model-turned-activist Lauren Bush Lauren comes to Greenwich to share her passion for eradicating childhood hunger around the globe. GO Head to this bestkept-secret before the word gets out (it won’t be long). HOME Building a dream: Chuck Hilton on three decades of stunning design. SHOP Forget the April showers. We’ve got the flowers your wardrobe needs. DO New on the workout scene: The Studio EAT Behind the scenes and in the kitchen with OntheMarc Catering 62 G-MOM You don’t have to wait for the big holidays to celebrate—we’ve got some great ideas to turn any day into a party.

65 PEOPLE & PLACES The Avon Theatre; Bruce Museum: Night at the Museum; Greenwich Economic Forum; Greenwich Hospital & Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital; Food Allergy Research and Education 79 VOWS Sinko—Smit; Oztemel—Genualdi 79 HAPPENINGS Dr. Bina Park Orthodontics; Michelle Farmer Collaborate; Moffly Media: Be Well!

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Tucked away in the private Milbrook Association close to downtown and train, this classic English home offers all the amenities of 21st century living, while maintaining the character and integrity of its original 1935 design. $2,750,000 | MLS# 105467 | Michael Carey | 203.869.9263

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Set on 2 acres, this stylish and green-conscious retreat includes an open concept plan with great room, lots of French doors, a large screened-in porch, salt water pool and pool house, and luxurious 1st-floor master suite. $2,690,000 | MLS# 105648 | Metalios Group | 203.637.4324

Renovated in 2014, this 5-bedroom home with separate guest cottage is sited on 2 acres close to the Nature Conservancy. The main house includes an expansive kitchen, home theater, wine cellar, exercise room, and sauna. $2,195,000 | MLS# 105658 | Maria Rüggeberg | 203.869.9263

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t’s been a long-standing tradition that every April this magazine takes a look at our ever-evolving, ever-changing real estate market. Some years the news is better than others. But the one overarching truth is that no matter how bumpy the road has been, a real estate investment here—made wisely— has always proved to be a smart move.

While our gains have been modest over the past three years, it’s important to remember that they are indeed gains. And that’s a lot more than other corners of our state—and our country, for that matter—can say. In this year’s story, veteran real estate writer Chris Hodenfield explores the trends impacting sales as well and those that may be forecasting the future (“State of Real Estate,” page 84).

One of those factors, of course, is the global economy. In “Money Matters” (page 102), Tim Dumas reports on the inaugural Greenwich Economic Forum.

The two-day meeting of some of the greatest financial minds of our time explored our fiscal horizon. They debated the implications of international political volatility, artificial intelligence, private sector power, philanthropic entrepreneurship, wealth disparity and much more. Should greenwichmag.com

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we be bracing ourselves for an economic earthquake? As you can imagine, the answer is not quite so simple. But we think you’ll agree that Tim does a remarkable job at detangling the complicated web of information.

This issue also seemed a particularly fitting time to celebrate a local organization that’s been a driving force for change in our town for 100 years: The YWCA. Before women even had the right to vote, a group of Greenwich women embarked on a journey to open a branch of the organization here in order to provide housing and skills training to young ladies. A century later the YWCA Greenwich continues to play an important role in civil and gender rights. Writer Jamie Marshall tells the story of this formidable institution through the personalities, who over the years, have seen it all firsthand (“100 Years of Empowerment,” page 92).

Stories like theirs reinforce the notion that we are lucky to call Greenwich home for more than just our real estate values.

Yup, there’s no place like home.

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S And, oh, those raffles.

God knows what you might end up with.

Do I covet an autographed basketball?

Not much.

o we’ve gotten through March with its ides. The Romans used the term to refer to the day of the full moon— the thirteenth of some months, the fifteenth of others. Nothing especially unlucky about that, except for poor Julius Caesar who got himself stabbed twenty-three times by a disgruntled gang of fellow senators on March 15, 44 B.C. (Any comparisons with what’s going on in Washington today is purely coincidental.)

Now it’s April with its tax deadline—a tough time for a lot of us, too. Sure would be swell to win the lottery right about now.

I know someone who won a lottery—Russ Herman’s son-in-law Dave Novalis. He and Lisa had just bought an old house in Summit, New Jersey, and were saving pennies like crazy to fix it up. Lisa threw out tempting catalogs; Dave promised not to buy any more lottery tickets. But when she asked him to stop for milk on the way home from work one night, he spotted a sign in the convenience store announcing that the state lottery had topped $20 million. Unable to resist, he bought ten tickets, and pow! It couldn’t have happened to a nicer pair.

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roofing business; Lisa as a child counselor— and were very conservative with their winnings. Of course, they had to pay a lot of taxes on their windfall, but there was plenty left over. After taking their four kids to Disney World to celebrate, they set up educational trusts, paid off a loan, worked on the house and, oh yes, produced Lydia, that fifth child they had always wanted.

The tax people also want to know how much money you gave away last year, so you need to keep track of that, too. Way back in our March 2011 issue, I wrote an article called “Unsolicited Solicitations.” Just for fun, I tried to figure out how much it would cost if you donated the minimum requested by all nonprofits that came to you by snail-mail over the course of one year. Not by email; not over the phone. Politics excluded. I listed repeaters just once; but if a charity hit you on the national, state and local levels followed by a fundraising gala in town, it got listed four times. (If no specific price tag was suggested, I arbitrarily assigned $50.)

On New Year’s Day, 2010, I began saving the envelopes in a kitchen drawer, entered them in my computer at the end of each month and on

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If you wanted to spread your largesse at the minimum democratically across 453 causes that year, you’d be out a grand total of $61,811.23!

Williams on what turned out to be the day the stock market crashed in September 2008.

And, oh, those raffles. God knows what you might end up with. Do I covet an autographed basketball? Not much. But Jack got really lucky at a Planned Parenthood benefit, and eight of us were treated to a tour of MOMA and lunch at its multistar restaurant.

Finally, there are the games. At a fundraiser for St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Jack signed me up—dragging my heels—for the Heads and Tails competition. When it finally got down to just Roy Glah and me on the dance floor, I went for heads and won tickets to Billy Elliot, dinner in New York and a round-trip limo ride. Who could ask for anything more?

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December 31 got out my calculator. Result: If you had wanted to spread your largesse at the minimum democratically across 453 causes that year, you’d be out a grand total of $61,811.23!

What would it be today? Don’t even think about it.

April is also the start of the Silly Season— especially April and May in the spring and October and November in the fall. Those months are Greenwich Peak Time (as opposed to Mean Time) for nonprofits to pull out all the stops on gala auctions, raffles and games; so we have plenty of chances to “win” stuff, whether we want to or not. My husband, Jack, the ultimate team player, liked to help get things going by raising his paddle for opening bids at live auctions. We once got stuck with a condominium in Tobago, billed as accommodating five, that in fact had only one bedroom. Instead of a trip, we took a tax write-off.

Once at a silent auction benefiting Greenwich Symphony, Jack bid on two ski houses, hoping for one, and got both. Never mind that I hated skiing, but we headed north twice with some snowbird friends and had a ball. I still have a picture of Jane Yates lying in a hammock strung across the Rindlaubs’ kitchen in Vermont.

But at a Community Answers Fashion Show, we landed both a pony party for our grandchildren at Cindy Steinmetz’s stable and a visit to NBC Nightly News with Brian

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Lauren, carrying the FEED 1 bag, in Mozambique, at a school where FEED proceeds have contributed to the free school-lunch program.

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AS THE COFOUNDER AND CEO OF FEED, AN IMPACT-DRIVEN LIFESTYLE BRAND, LAUREN BUSH LAUREN PERSONIFIES WHAT ONE OF HER CHIC TOTE BAGS PROCLAIMS IN BOLD LETTERS: SHE’S A WOMAN ON A MISSION

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orn into a family devoted to public service, Lauren Bush Lauren, a former fashion model who once graced the cover of Vogue, has spent the last twelve years using her considerable design talents to address global childhood hunger.

To date FEED products, which include totes, accessories and home goods, have provided more than 103 million school meals globally through a network of partners.

This month Lauren will talk more about her passion for eradicating hunger near and far when she takes to the podium as the keynote speaker of the fourteenth annual Sole Sisters luncheon to benefit the United Way of Greenwich on Tuesday, April 23, at Greenwich Country Club. We caught up with the designing philanthropist, mother of two, granddaughter and niece of presidents and daughter-in-law of fashion designer Ralph Lauren, in anticipation of her visit.

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buzz GM: The United Way of Greenwich supports so many deserving community nonprofits and initiatives. Do you have a specific message for Sole Sisters’ guests about the importance of that mission?

GM: You come from a family of public servants, including your grandfather, the late President George H. W. Bush. How has this inspired your career trajectory and desire to make a difference?

LBL: It was such a strong

influence for me growing up.

Public service was kind of a given and discussed at home. I grew up with a sense that I wanted my life and career to have meaning.

I knew that politics wasn’t my calling. Honestly, it wasn’t in my DNA at all, but design is and I have a creative and enterprising

Lauren with her son, James, and FEED’s first-ever lunch box

spirit. So, I asked myself how design could have meaning and make a difference. And that’s what led to what I’m doing now.

world are hungry and it’s hard to tune out. At least it was for me.

GM: You’ve said that your global travels opened your eyes to the problems of childhood hunger.

Was there a defining moment that compelled you to act?

LBL: One way is about making

GM: How do you get that message across today?

it tangible and proactive. Every product we sell has a number attached to it. So, you know if you buy this tote bag, for example, there are this many school meals attached to that bag. It conveys the donation and makes it real and gives you a sense of how you have made an impact through that purchase.

LBL: There were many! But definitely my first trip to Guatemala with the World Food Programme was an important one. I was a sophomore in college [at Princeton]. The first stop was a therapeutic feeding center for children who were severely malnourished. It was heartbreaking. Some of the children were physically stunted and disabled because of a simple lack of food. It was devastating to see hunger could cause that much pain and suffering.

I came back and started telling other college kids about what I saw. I didn’t know exactly how to activate my passion then, but it was the beginning of the conversation, and ultimately, led to more action. You hear this overwhelming statistic that 795 million people around the

GM: There’s a devastating statistic that here in Connecticut an estimated one in eight children is food insecure.

LBL: You would think in

Greenwich, Connecticut, hunger wouldn’t be a problem, but it very much exists everywhere in the United States, and it’s disturbing because it’s not always recognized or appreciated. What you have, in many cases, are families who are stretched so thin that there just isn’t enough money at the end of the month to buy food. Sadly, so many Americans are relying on food pantries and soup kitchens.

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This is where organizations like the United Way step in and help and why they are so important. We also get involved by supporting organizations such as Feed America and No Kid Hungry. Through these efforts a lot of kids are getting meals at school, which is critical for kids who are food insecure at home.

GM: How do you approach designing the FEED product line?

LBL: For me, the approach is

really about thinking, What do I like? and What would I want to use myself in my daily life?

When I was having my first son, I immediately thought of a diaper bag. I’m always asking myself if this is something I would use and how would I use it. I love things that are simple, easy to use and utilitarian. I also want them to be well-made and well-priced. I want anyone who wants to participate in what we’re doing to be able to access it. Also, I love working with the artisans and craftspeople around the globe who help us make our products. It’s very important that we are supporting them and including them in the design process. feedprojects.com

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Lauren Bush Lauren: The United Way does so much good work in the States around the issue of hunger—and so many other important causes. I’m excited and honored to be supporting that.

I want to share my personal story of how I became involved in the issue of hunger. And I hope when people hear about my journey, they’ll realize that we all have the ability to give back. For me, the way is through design.

This crowd is probably blessed and lucky that they have a lot to give—and I’m not just talking about giving in a financial sense but also in terms of resources, talent and time.

The people coming to this luncheon are already committed to act simply by being there— which is great—so I hope I can inspire them to think about what else they can do to support causes in their own unique way.

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hat does one superyacht owner say to another superyacht owner when they meet on a wild beach in the south Caribbean? There’s no punchline. This is the kind of thing that happens when you spend time in Bequia (pronounced BEK-way) and the surrounding islands.

Having recently “discovered” Bequia and the necklace of tiny islands that make up the Grenadines south of St. Vincent, I’m inclined to keep the secret. But that’s not why I was invited by Bengt Morgenstern, owner of Bequia Beach Hotel and the Star of the Sea superyacht. He is Bequia’s biggest benefactor and cheerleader, and after spending a weekend with him, I’m wearing the team colors. In case you’re wondering, superyacht owners discuss the other yachts they considered buying and what type of beer they like. I overheard Bengt’s conversation while doing extensive research on the ability to nap in the sand after a day spent aboard his superyacht and swimming with turtles. He apologized for leaving me to chat with his new friend. He seemed genuinely tickled at the meeting and gushed, “The world is just so small!” For the .01 percenters, it most certainly is. »

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Getting to Bequia isn’t impossible, but it’s not easy either.

Most guests fly to Barbados (JetBlue flies there from JFK daily) and then take a forty-five minute island hopper to the island. Bengt and his team are introducing a private charter that will alleviate the pain of waiting for hours in the Barbados airport for an inter-island transfer. Rates will depend on number of passengers and time of flight.

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MAKE WAY FOR BEQUIA Bequia is the same size as St. Barths, but that is the only similarity. There’s only one road on the island, no stop signs, no road signs; and despite repeated attempts to understand security risks, I was only able to ascertain that there were some police (between four and six depending on who you ask), and someone thought “they might have gotten a car last year.”

There are only 5,000 residents, and as unlikely as it sounds, they all know each other. Driving back from dinner one night, I spotted an older couple, clearly tourists, strolling along the road to their hotel in the dark.

This isn’t a scene you come across on many islands where the resorts are gated and walking alone at night is unadvised.

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HOME AWAY The Bequia Beach Hotel sits on the windward side of the island facing Mustique. Though it was built in 2009, it has all the charm of a 1950s getaway for the jet set. The front desk sits atop a hotair balloon basket, and the lobby feels a bit like Hemingway’s library. The authentic tiki bar and pastel cottages topped with gingerbread trim add to the illusion that this little hotel has always been here.

Though there are fifty-eight rooms on the property, even at capacity it feels like a private getaway.

The room choices start at a classic room with a garden view that can be booked for as little

You won’t find a single hotel or restaurant chain; there is a “Pizza Hut,” but it’s a brightly painted, well, hut covered in soft pink bougainvillea vines with rum punch on the menu. greenwichmag.com

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as $265 per night.

Breakfast is included with every room.

I stayed in a Junior Plantation suite with a four-post canopy bed and a view of the ocean. Each room is individually decorated in Tommy Bahamameets-Errol Flynn style. The vintage travel posters framed in the rooms are original paintings commissioned by Bengt to add to the throwback feel of the resort. Junior Plantation rooms start at $380 per night.

The most popular choice for families are the stand-alone two bedroom villas.

There are only three, and each has its own pool. These start at $525 per night. There are two restaurants on-property and both serve impressive cuisine. As Bengt and I chatted about how good the food was, he admitted that early on he had hired an executive chef to run the kitchen; it took him seven months to learn that his chef couldn’t actually cook.

Running a first-class hotel and gourmet restaurant on a tiny island isn’t easy. »

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The Experience Bequia nightlife is not the sea of drunken tourists you may imagine.

The “place to be” moves nightly, but everyone knows where the action is.

We hit Laura’s on a Friday night, and the place was hopping.

The food was just this side of awful, and the service matched, but the party? The party had the feel of a family reunion (with a little pole dancing).

The crowd was an intoxicating mix of locals, young and old, expats, yachties and tourists. I danced with the restaurant manager, local kids and a grandpa in cargo shorts. It was the best night I’d had in a long time—and I had just been on a superyacht.

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It has six en suite cabins and can sleep twelve guests. For a beautifully appointed and fully staffed Benetti superyacht, it’s actually a reasonable deal.

(Or maybe the rum punch has gone to my head.) G greenwichmag.com

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The “town” of Port Elizabeth is referred to as The Harbour and is home to the fruit and vegetable market, complete with friendly Rasta merchants. The businesses range from swank coffee shops with wi-fi to folding tables selling handmade bracelets.

And despite the island’s diminutive size, there are twentyfive restaurants.

It’s about a twentyminute walk from town to Princess Margaret Beach, where you’ll find another of Bengt’s ventures—Jack’s Bar and Grill. Bequia Beach Hotel guests enjoy charging privileges and have access to the sun loungers on the No. 1 beach on the island.

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LIVING THE DREAM GREENWICH ARCHITECT CHUCK HILTON CELEBRATES A MILESTONE 1988. With the Gulf War in 1990, work dried up at my employer’s firm. I went out on my own, cofounding a very successful partnership in March of 1991 and worked for the next twenty-two years in Greenwich until I launched my own solo venture, Charles Hilton Architects, in March of 2013.

GM: Why Greenwich?

above and below: Hilton’s extensive body of work includes this Georgian Revival home and a nautical-themed study.

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s of this year, architect Charles Hilton has spent thirty years designing gorgeous homes and buildings in our area (and beyond). That’s a lot of facades, but Hilton, who goes by the down-to-earth “Chuck,” is the opposite of a “facade.” He was a 2016 Inductee into the New England Design Hall of Fame, 2016 Greenwich Citizen of the Year and a four-time winner of Ocean Home’s Top 50 Coastal Architects. His work is also featured in a recent coffee-table book, The Classical American House. Here, Chuck shares highlights from his three decades in Greenwich and insight into architectural trends for the future.

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Westport | $2,995,000 | Web# CT170168988 Architectural masterpiece on Saugatuck Avenue.

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all NYC resources, its history and tradition of fine residential design, and Greenwich clients with their discerning taste drew me to the town. I found myself gravitating toward Greenwich’s waterfront and proximity to the rest of New England.

sums up the values we try to infuse in all our projects. We aim to produce imaginative buildings that delight and inspire; humanistic architecture that meaningfully improves the lives of its inhabitants and designs with timeless relevance.

GM: What inspires you?

GM: What are some of your favorite projects you’ve done in the Greenwich area?

CH: Beauty in all forms; articulate deep thinkers (I love TED talks); nature, especially waterfront settings; and travel. I love to explore new countries and cultures. I am fortunate that my work takes me to new distant destinations a couple times a year.

GM: How would you describe your architectural style?

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of Greenwich. Next, a New England Shingle-style residence that we designed for a stunning waterfront site overlooking the Sound. It was designed to maximize the light and integrate its waterfront views with a variety of comfortable and beautiful interior details. And, finally, our new four-building Lakeside Georgian Estate in mid-country was an exciting project that allowed us to blend the traditional exterior with modern interiors.

The estate features a beautiful main house with a long alley entry, a tennis pavilion, a lakeside pavilion and a pool pergola.

CH: Having built hundreds of projects through the years, it is hard to single out just a few.

If I have to choose, I’d have to say, first, Sleepy Cat Farm. It’s a beautiful fourteen-acre, sevenbuilding, twenty-three-year labor of love that seamlessly integrates the inspiration from the owner’s travels and his collections, the picturesque landscape and highly detailed interiors, creating a European oasis in the heart

GM: Tell us about the historic signs you have designed for Greenwich.

CH: Our firm has been active in a number of preservation efforts through the years in

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GM: What architectural trends do you see dominating the next decade in this area?

CH: More modern design, energy efficiency, indoor/ outdoor living, accelerated integration of technology, home designs for healthy living, use of low-maintenance building materials, design features for an aging population, and continued strong demand for home entertainment and personal hobby areas.

GM: How do you relax?

CH: “I love to be outside boating, fishing or doing almost anything on the water. I also love to travel. I’m looking forward to our next trip to visit my daughter in Barcelona and then traveling through Tuscany.

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above: Rendering of a new waterfront brick Georgian home in Cos Cob

connection with the Greenwich Historical Society, the Greenwich Preservation Trust and the Greenwich Preservation Network.

We recognized that one of the challenges with preservation around the town was that many people did not know about the town’s historic districts or recognize the importance of these resources in their community.

The signs are an effort to change this through information and education. Partnering with the Greenwich Preservation Network and the Greenwich Historical Society, we designed a series of signs, one for each historic district in town. The signs not only serve as markers but also include a map of the district, identifying contributing structures in the area, and give a short history explaining the significance of each location. Cornerstone Construction installed the signs pro bono, and many sponsors around the town funded the construction of the signs.

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A NEW LUXURY YOGA CENTER, THE STUDIO GREENWICH INVITES PEOPLE NOT ONLY TO COME IN FOR CLASSES BUT TO STOP AND STAY AWHILE

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Clients enjoy coming to The Studio for infrared sauna sessions, too, particularly helpful for people who have arthritis or joint issues. The women’s and men’s locker rooms each house a Sunlighten sauna with a coloredlight chromatherapy feature.

The Studio also hosts meditation sessions and workshops such as sound healing. Groups like the committee for Greenwich Hospital’s Under the Stars have chosen the space as a place to meet after a team-bonding yoga session. “We’re a place for people to come and be a community.”

701 West Putnam Avenue; thestudio greenwich.com, 203-532-5477

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erched on top of a hill near the New York border, The Studio is an expansive light-filled space (a former garage-turned-art gallery) with a lounge, large yoga room and infrared saunas in the locker rooms. There's also a kitchen/café area that opens up to a patio and lawn where founder Pamela Pell hopes to offer outdoor classes when the weather’s nice.

Pam has an extensive background in Bikram, having studied at Bikram’s Yoga College of India in Los Angeles and also with Toni Goodrich, one of the first on the East Coast to teach hot yoga. Now for her own studio, she’s gathered a top team.

“My teachers are wonderful. I wanted very experienced people who can make corrections and know what to look for,” says Pam. All types of yoga are offered at The Studio, which has a cushioned, antimicrobial floor and special energy-efficient heating and humidification that create a comfortable, clean environment for practice. The main yoga space is heated by infrared panels—a soothing heat that warms the body and muscles directly, helping boost people’s flexibility. “It’s a stateof-the-art system that’s used in Europe for health purposes,” Pam says, designed to aid circulation and weight loss.

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CHAMOMILE SPARKLER INGREDIENTS Makes 1 cocktail 1 fluid ounce chilled Chamomile Honey Syrup (recipe follows) 5 fluid ounces chilled Prosecco GLASS stemless flute or champagne coupe (no ice) GARNISH lemon peel

DIRECTIONS Add the honey syrup to a chilled champagne coupe.

Pour in the Prosecco and rub the lemon peel around the lip of the glass. Squeeze the peel over the finished cocktail to release the lemon’s natural oils, and drop it into the finished beverage.

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f you’ve attended an event in Greenwich, chances are you’ve been lucky enough to enjoy Marc Weber’s creative and beautiful hors d’oeuvres. Marc is a staple on the charity circuit, impressing guests with OntheMarc Catering’s signature “starter bites,” as he refers to them—many an entire meal in one delicious bite (think Chicken and Waffles, Osso Bucco on Panisse, Steak Tostada).

Good news for the foodies among you, Marc recently released his first book, Beginnings: How the Party Started. It’s an impressive collection of recipes that’s equally suited for display on a coffee table as it is for guidance in the kitchen. The photography is stunning; the advice, anecdotes and tips useful and entertaining (pun intended); and the recipes, well, see for yourself. Here, we offer up a few of Marc’s cocktails and easy appetizers that are sure to whet your appetite for more.

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CHAMOMILE HONEY SYRUP Makes ¾ cup 1 chamomile tea bag (Harney & Sons) 6 fluid ounces hot filtered water 3 tablespoons honey 1 lemon rind, peeled into strips In a small saucepan, steep the chamomile tea in the hot water for five minutes.

Remove the tea bag and add the honey and half of the lemon peels, reserving the other half for garnish. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, then reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer for twenty minutes or until the liquid has reduced by half.

Remove the saucepan from the heat and let the syrup cool to room temperature, then cover and refrigerate until chilled. »

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TEQUILA ESPECIADO INGREDIENTS Makes 1 cocktail 1 tablespoon kosher salt 1 teaspoon chili powder 1 lemon wedge 1 cup ice cubes 2 fluid ounces Chile-Spiced Apple Cider (recipe follows) 2 fluid ounces tequila 0.5 fluid ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice GLASS margarita or decorative rocks glass ICE blended GARNISH: apple wedge, chili salt rim

DIRECTIONS In a shallow bowl, mix together the salt and chili powder. Rub the lemon wedge along half the rim of the glass. Dip the glass into the chili powder–salt mixture, allowing the salt to stick to the wet portion of the rim.

Set aside.

Place the ice in a blender and add the spiced cider, tequila and lemon juice.

Pulse to break up the ice and then blend until smooth.

Pour into the rimmed glass and garnish with the apple wedge. Serve immediately.

CHILE-SPICED APPLE CIDER Makes 1 ¾ cups 2 cups fresh-pressed apple cider 1-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled and chopped 1 cinnamon stick 1 dried red chile, halved Combine all the ingredients in a medium saucepan, and bring the mixture to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat to low and simmer for twenty minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and let the syrup cool slightly, then strain it through a fine-mesh sieve into a bottle with a lid.

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INGREDIENTS Makes 40 to 50 pieces ROASTED CORN SALAD (MAKES 3 CUPS) 2 cups fresh sweet corn kernels 2 teaspoons salt Extra-virgin olive oil ½ cup finely diced red bell pepper ½ small red onion, finely diced Zest and juice of 1 lime 1 teaspoon finely

chopped fresh cilantro 1 cup thinly sliced hearts of palm SCALLOPS Extra-virgin olive oil 2 pounds bay scallops (80 to 100 total), shells removed and set aside Zest and juice of 1 lime Salt and freshly ground black pepper 3 scallions, thinly sliced

SEARED BAY SCALLOP CEVICHE DIRECTIONS ROASTED CORN SALAD Place a rimmed baking sheet on the center rack of the oven and preheat to 425°F. In a medium bowl, toss the corn kernels with the salt and enough olive oil to coat them.

Spread the corn in an even layer on the preheated baking sheet and roast for five to seven minutes, until golden brown. Remove from the oven and set aside to cool.

Once the corn has cooled to room temperature, place it in a large mixing bowl along with the bell pepper, onion, lime zest and juice, cilantro and hearts of palm.

Toss with a sprinkle of salt and a drizzle of olive oil, taste and adjust the seasonings as desired. Cover and refrigerate until ready to use.

SCALLOPS Place a medium sauté pan over medium-high heat. When the pan is hot, add some olive oil and a handful of scallops. Sauté the scallops for forty-five seconds, add some lime zest and juice, season with salt and pepper and toss to flip the scallops. Cook for another forty-five seconds, then immediately remove the pan from the heat. Repeat with the remaining scallops.

ASSEMBLY In each scallop shell, place 1 or 2 scallops (depending on size), about 2 tablespoons of the corn salad and a garnish of sliced scallions.

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INGREDIENTS Makes 56 pieces 8 sheets rice paper 4 ounces pickled ginger 6 ounces snow peas, cut into chiffonade 3 serrano chiles, seeded and finely sliced on a mandoline

MINT YOGURT DIPPING SAUCE 2 cups plain, whole-fat Greek yogurt 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh mint ¼ cup freshly squeezed lemon juice 0.3 ounce salt

POTATO FILLING 1 ½ pounds Yukon gold potatoes, finely diced 1 teaspoon ground coriander 1 teaspoon ground cardamom 1 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon vegetable oil FRIZZLED ONIONS 3 quarts vegetable oil, for frying 1 small (12-ounce) yellow onion, thinly sliced 1 cup cornstarch

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SAMOSA ROLLS DIRECTIONS MINT YOGURT DIPPING SAUCE In a medium bowl, whisk together all the ingredients. Cover and refrigerate until needed.

POTATO FILLING Preheat the oven to 350°F. Spread the potatoes on a large, rimmed baking sheet and toss them with the coriander, cardamom, salt and oil. Roast for twelve to fifteen minutes or until tender. Remove from the oven and set aside to cool.

FRIZZLED ONIONS Heat the oil in your deep fryer to 300°F. In a large bowl, toss the onion with the cornstarch, then fry them for about three minutes or until light golden brown.

Transfer to a paper towellined plate to drain.

ASSEMBLY Wet a rice paper wrapper with hot water until just pliable. Lay it on a cutting board and add layers of potato, pickled ginger, snow peas and frizzled onion.

Roll tightly. Cover with a damp tea towel and repeat with the remaining wrappers and fillings.

Cut each roll into seven equal pieces and garnish with a thin slice of serrano chile. Serve with the mint yogurt sauce on the side. G greenwichmag.com

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WHAT A DAY!

WHY SHOULD NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER GET ALL THE HOLIDAY FUN? PUT A LITTLE SPRING IN YOUR STEP AND CREATE SOME PERSONALIZED FAMILY CELEBRATIONS

Every mom gets tired of saying no all the time, so choose one day to make your Day of Yes! The idea has grown in popularity as celebrities like Jennifer Garner started Instagramming about their Yes Days.

Guidelines have to be drawn up ahead of time (no requests to eat candy all day, adopt a new puppy or buy a motorcycle).

Kids are usually very happy to work within the boundaries.

Simple things like pizza for breakfast, an extra episode of a favorite TV show or a trip to the zoo may be a part of your child’s ideal day. The key is to be present and set the phone aside to fully engage.

Whether it’s reading one more story or playing dress up, this should be a special day for you both. Add a twist and follow up with a kids’ Day of Yes—you ask if they’d like to clean their rooms, empty the dishwasher or walk the dog, and they respond with a resounding Yes!

2. BREAKFAST ALL DAY

Few things can unite a family as much as good food, so include everyone in setting the menu. Fill the menu with French toast, fresh smoothies, crepes, omelets—the options are endless.

Be sure to pick items that can be packed as a school lunch or snack fitting the breakfast theme.

Finish the day with a big breakfast buffet.

If you plan this for a weekend day, consider including additional spins like wearing pajamas all day.

3. PET’S BIRTHDAY PARTY

Invite friends and their pets to join the party.

Pet Pantry Warehouse (ppwpet.com) has a wide variety of toys and supplies, including edible birthday cakes.

When our beloved golden retriever, Lucy, turned nine, we treated her to a special dog cake, new collar and toy. I don’t know who had more fun, the kids playing with Lucy all day or Lucy enjoying all of the sudden attention.

Everyone loves a birthday party, even your furry or scaly family member. If you don’t know your pet’s actual birth date, celebrate the anniversary of the day it joined the family or simply pick a date to honor your pet.

Include the kids in planning a special day filled with your pet’s favorite activities— long walks, ball tossing or a swim at the beach (an iguana party is a bit tougher to plan).

4. DAY OF THE DEAD

You don’t have to wait until November

for your own Día de los Muertos. Day of the Dead may sound ominous but it’s a heartwarming tradition of visiting loved ones’ graves and keeping their memory alive.

Whether you plan it for the official Day of the Dead on November 2 or choose your own day of remembrance, this day should be filled with stories and laughs and cherished memories of relatives and/or friends that you miss or that your children may not have even known.

Our family lines up

photos of deceased grandparents and relatives and we light candles and tell their stories. It is a celebration of life that can teach children about family history and traditions. (You may want to include a family movie night of the charming film Coco to put your kids in the mood.)

5. MEMORIAL DAY

It’s easy to let this day pass by as just another school holiday or three-day weekend. Take some

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“whether it’s once a month or once a year, volunteering instills the principles of kindness in your children that will l ast a lifetime. ”

time this Memorial Day (Monday, May 27) to make it a holiday of family significance. Start by talking to your children about any members of your family that have served in the military, and then plan an outing to honor those who have fought for our country.

All across town, veterans’ groups sponsor a number of ceremonies to lay wreaths and hold small services at veterans’ memorials such as Binney Park, Riverside Elementary School and Hamilton Avenue School. Memorial Day Parades in Byram, Glenville and Old Greenwich are fun to watch, but be sure to stick

around when they culminate in a veterans’ ceremony at the end.

6. MUSEUM OF THE MONTH

Set aside one day a month, or every few months, to visit one of our many area museums. Invite the family to vote on destinations. Make sure to balance area attractions such as the Bruce Museum (brucemuseum .org), Neuberger Museum (neuberger .org) in Purchase and The Glass House (theglasshouse .org) in New Canaan with all the New York City museums just a short Metro-North train ride away.

7. MYSTERY TRIPS

8. FAMILY GIVE-BACK DAY

Growing up, my father packed us all in the car on Sundays, and we set off on a mystery trip.

Destinations varied, and I still remember the excitement that the unknown adventures brought.

Some ideas: a hike at North Mianus park, family bowling or a visit to Michael’s craft store in Stamford, where each family member is given $10 and challenged to find a craft they can do at home later that day. Give your family any wardrobe requirements (which just adds to the mystery), time of departure and let the mystery unfold.

The seemingly endless negative news cycle can be overwhelming for children.

Volunteering as a family is a great way to spend time together and show your children that they can make a difference in the world and our community. Whether it’s once a month or once a year, volunteering instills in your children the principles of kindness to last a lifetime.

Plenty of organizations would welcome your family’s help on a project, if even for a day.

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Local groups such as BYO Greenwich (byogreenwich.org), Surfrider Foundation (surfrider.org) and the Greenwich Beach Conservancy (greenwichpoint .org) sponsor a beach cleanup at Tod’s Point every February.

Last year, over two tons of garbage was removed from our beach. Greenwich Green and Clean (greenwichgreen andclean.org) runs a town-wide cleanup every October. Other opportunities range from preparing and serving a meal to the homeless at Inspirica (inspiricact. org) in Stamford or holding a coat or canned goods drive to benefit Neighbor to Neighbor (ntngreenwich.org). G

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MOFFLY: How have you innovated to keep current?

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lexandra and Chris first met while attending the University of Richmond but didn’t start dating until after college, when they were living in New York City.

(Ironically, the bride’s parents also met at the University of Richmond.)

The couple had been dating for about six-and-a-half years before they became engaged while out for a walk in their new home city of San Francisco. The bride’s brother, Harrison Oztemel, officiated at the ceremony on the rooftop of The Pearl in San Francisco. The couple had everyone laughing and crying when they shared their personal vows. Another highlight of the night was when Alexandra and her father, Gary, sang “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” with the band.

The bride, daughter of Gary Oztemel and Karen Scrivanos Oztemel of Greenwich, graduated from Greenwich Academy and the University of Richmond. Alexandra works in advertising at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners in San Francisco.

The groom, son of Stephen and Robyn Genualdi of New Jersey, graduated from Morristown High School and the University of Richmond. Chris works for NETGEAR in San Jose, California.

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They quickly began dating and spent their free time in the countryside of Virginia enjoying a shared passion for equestrian sports and wine tasting. After two years together, the pair took a vacation to the Provence and Rhone wine regions of France, where Patrick proposed to Kristin on the steps of the Palais des Papes in Avignon.

Fr. Daniel Velez-Rivera officiated at the ceremony at Historic Rosemont Manor in Berryville, Virginia, where the reception followed. With Hurricane Florence predicted to make landfall nearby, there were some tense days leading up to the wedding. But Mother Nature cooperated, and the sun broke through the clouds just in time for the outdoor ceremony.

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he Greenwich housing market has lately been the scene of some enigmatic give-and-take. If you think our market seems a touch flat, well, look in the other direction where it’s a lot worse. Certain lovely towns in Connecticut are down 20 percent. By comparison, the 5 percent lift in Greenwich—the third straight year of gains—makes our town look pretty healthy.

As buyers, sellers and brokers sift through the details to find some recognizable trends, it becomes clear that nothing is boilerplate.

“We in the market, think we understand and are familiar with all that’s happening, but the truth is, it’s changing all the time. And we’re trying to figure out what makes it and what breaks it,” notes Tamar Lurie, broker of big properties via Coldwell Banker Global Luxuries.

The Tax Cut & Jobs Act created a sugar high in early 2018 and then left economists worrying about the deficits. The removal of house-oriented tax deductions brought other worries—but it was more worrisome in Westchester County where property taxes are so much higher. For every seller who departs for Florida, another buyer comes in from frantic New York State.

Thanks to geopolitical traumas, our market saw fewer of those deep-pocketed buyers from Russia, China and Brazil. But, wait.

There were actually more from Europe and India.

Our own political scene is also getting some attention. While Realtors are generally very reticent about politics (you’re probably getting mad just reading this paragraph), these days there is a general acknowledgement of the national uneasiness. “It puts uncertainty in people’s minds,” says Vicki D’Agostino of William Raveis.

“Hopefully, we can put this all behind us so that more confidence can be restored.”

If the stock market stumbled last year, it did recover. People have taken heart that mortgage rates stayed low, and that helped. Last year’s growth looked sort of wan, and then in January of this year people began storming into their Realtor’s office saying, “Let’s do it.”

What do you need to know about the current real-estate scene?

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The trend of more casual living spaces doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon.

Right now, the two most active groups in the market are downsizing Boomers and the group coming of age in the twenty-first century.

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nothing for granted.

“The buyer today,” adds Scott, “has more access to financial information than any buyer in history. They are very confident on how they value a house.”

“It’s a buyer’s ball game, they hold all the power,” says Jen Danzi of the Tamar Lurie Group at Coldwell Banker Global Luxury.

“They’ve done the virtual tours, they’ve examined the site plans.”

Right now, the two most active groups in the market are downsizing boomers and the group coming of age in the twenty-first century. Millennials have their own approach to life and a big part of that is a comfort with data. And anyone selling a house has to know this.

“In the old days, more people seemed to buy emotionally,” recalls Joann Erb of Halstead.

“After seeing three or four houses, people would walk into a house that was pretty, and

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uzzword of the year: Walkability.

“Millennials want what they’ve always wanted—to be close to town,” says Vicki. “They want very low-maintenance places in like-new condition. They want to walk in and not do any work. Shopping is important and particularly the train.”

In this regard, says Coldwell Banker’s Susan Cassidy, boomers and millennials are hunting in the same neighborhoods. “They want the same thing. The in-town locations are desirable for both groups, which means that the larger homes on big properties that don’t have a great walkability score are less desirable.”

The hottest neighborhood in town is Cos Cob. David Haffenreffer of Houlihan Lawrence reports a 25 percent increase in unit sales (84 from 67). The presence of three good schools there now has unquestionably lifted its profile. Riverside also remained solid and Old Greenwich got a 13 percent bump in sales, although with an 11 percent decrease in average price. Pam Pagnani of Sotheby’s International believes that the relative diversity of Cos Cob’s community is also attractive to incoming Manhattanites.

New Yorkers are also ready to accept the million-dollar condo. “The condo and co-op market has been fascinating to watch over the last decade,” says Scott Elwell of Douglas Elliman. “Greenwich is not historically known for this market, but it’s rising. And it dovetails with the spiked interest in having an easy lifestyle. Buyers today want a house that does not need a lot of work, and you move right in.

Condos fit right in with that.”

Spec houses are still being built, but not at the pre-2008 rate, says DAvid. “They’re strongly desired by people who love to say, ‘Nobody else has been here before. This is mine.’”

they’d buy it. They didn’t have as much information. They weren’t as detailed-oriented.

Now, they want spreadsheets, comps and everything they can find.”

Realtors are the ones who do battle on behalf of their customers with internet sources like Zillow to get the correct information and the latest photographs up there. Not to mention that customer who arrives quoting a number he spotted. “‘Well, the Zestimate says this’,” Joann sighs. “Well, the Zestimate is garbage. Zillow has no idea if you’ve renovated the house.”

The majority of customers, however, will have done a ton of research.

“Value buyers, they’re there,” says David Haffenreffer. “That’s our conversation with sellers now. Strategic pricing is critical. This is not a market where you fish with a higher price and then lower it.”

Indeed, many longtime homeowners who have not really been part of the real-estate scene for a decade or more will be surprised at the new high-tech options employed by Realtors to find new customers. “Gone are days where you just put it out there and hope,” says Shelly Tretter Lynch of Compass. “Technology is the key now, and people are very quick. People expect things very quickly now, in every busi-

ness. At Compass we have the tools to reach simultaneously across the country or globally.

“I can zero in with the proper technology to people who are looking at a certain price range.”

Says Eric Bjork of Berkshire Hathaway: “Buyers are very patient; they will stay on the sidelines for months as they wait to get the price they want.”

Some have even refined this strategy. “One of our agents had some customers who were only into seeing houses that had been on the market for six months or more,” adds Eric.

“They felt that by that time the sellers would be more realistic about price.”

How does a seller deal with such negotiators? “My advice is: Don’t go it alone,” says Eric. “There are a lot of moving parts. It’s not a good idea to negotiate yourself on the price.”

In years past, houses that had been on the market a long time might have earned a dim regard, as if it were somehow tainted. Not so today. “Days on market is not an issue as long as the seller is connected to the market, and as long as I’m seeing a corresponding adjustment of pricing,” says David Haffenreffer, who, like all Realtors, has to counsel realism in the face of grand hopes. “You have to remain nimble to the market.”

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Buyers, after all, aren’t the only ones getting fresh information these days. Sellers know how to examine the comps, too, as David tells us, and once their eyes are opened, they more easily reconcile themselves to reality. “There seems to be more sellers who have gotten religion on what’s the best price,” says Halstead’s Rob Johnson in appreciation of sellers who’ve recognized post-Recession truth.

Nowhere is this more clear than in the grand estates.

Pam Pagnani, who had a hand in many of the bigger sales, points out that if you went back to 2017 and scanned the list of the eight biggest sellers, it would look like this in millions: 25, 22, 21, 20, 19, 13, 13 and 12. Last year there were ten sales of more than $10 million, and went like this: 17.5, 17, 14, 12, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11 and 10.5.

In 2017, those top sales accounted for $146 million in sales. In 2018, that dropped to $127 million.

An instructive story is found in the sale of 207 Byram Shore Road, a magnificent, 12,000-square-foot mansion with a colossal view of the Sound. Movie tycoon Bob Weinstein bought it in 2000 for $16 million and completely redid it. After a divorce it was put on the market in 2013 for $32 million. There it stood, the object of fantasies with a tumbling price tag, until a Westchester family, after a year

Open and airy has long been the floorplan of choice for buyers.

says Tamar. “That’s why I’m optimistic. If the price feels as low as it could go, then they are comfortable buying.”

Shelly Tretter Lynch senses that more customers see the value of living in backcountry now. “Many people are looking for weekend and summer homes. And backcountry privacy has gotten value again. Property does provide a buffer of protection.”

“You can get so much value in back country,” points out Jen Danzi. “So now families who thought they wanted to be in Old Greenwich, they see they can get far more land and a bigger house, all for driving just five minutes farther.”

Another group hunting for estates in the $6-8 million range, says Pam Pagnani, is a convivial group: The parents who want their family back home for a visit. “They want their children–and their grandchildren—to have a big family experience. So you have the pool, the tennis courts and all the space you need. If you have the lifestyle, they will come.”

According to David Ogilvy: “There are some real buys to be found in the backcountry.” Some recent sales, such as a $10 million house to a couple who just loved the huge wine cellar and greenwichmag.com

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the lake view, have improved the backcountry’s situation. “A rising tide floats all boats,” he says.

David has also noted the interest of the stillvery-active grandparents, who perhaps leave Greenwich for a spell and then decide to return, looking for a house big enough for their children and grandchildren to hang out and have fun. “I love what these grandparents are doing.”

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hat makes a desirable house? An open floor plan is always good. An utterly new kitchen helps enormously—and make sure those appliances are the top-name brands.

In matters of aesthetics, sellers often have to be schooled. Sellers of houses are famously blind when it comes to showing off their house

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of circling, bought it last year for $17 million.

Was it simply priced wrong? Tamar Lurie, agent for the sale, looks at the reality. “I was the one who put it on for $32 million, so I take the blame for that. The reason is that I sold a lot nearby—just for the land—for $32 million. So, a great piece of land with that house, thirty-two made sense to me. And then we started reducing.”

Especially in this market. Right now, Tamar has high hopes for the six-acre beachfront house once occupied by Ivana and Donald Trump and now owned by Robert Steinberg. After a $9 million haircut, it is priced at $45 million. It can be subdivided.

Like it or not, the bigger sales in Greenwich have always skewed price averages. The current price reductions of some of the high-upkeep castles continue to raise eyebrows. For instance, the late Leona Helmsley’s palace and forty-acre spread has gone from its $125 million price in the go-go years to today’s $22.5 million.

But now there is a rise in interest from customers who suspect these bargain prices won’t last. “We are at a place where the prices have come down to where it’s realistic to what the market can bear, and buyers are recognizing it,”

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and perhaps don’t realize how critical it is to get another pair of eyes to examine their beloved property. Brown furniture, brown siding, brown cabinets have to be gone right away, even if it makes the seller feel as if part of themselves is disappearing, too.

“Your home is no longer your home when it’s on the market,” says Eric Bjork. “It’s just merchandise. That applies to color, that applies to clutter. Buyers just want to look at a space and see how it figures for them.” If “your” house now looks like Pottery Barn, well, that will only help the sale.

“When it doesn’t look like yours anymore, that’s when it’s perfect,” says Joann Erb. The trend with millennials is that they don’t want stuff. If the house is a blank canvas—without stuff all around you—then you can see yourself in it. This mandate is also in force in the grandiloquent backcountry properties, says Jen Danzi. Sheer force of scale will not transcend the effect of old drapes and bygone color schemes.

The drive to paint everything white has been strong for a few years now, but is it actually necessary for every single surface to be blizzard white?

Maybe the days of monochrome are ending.

“We hear colors are being used again,” says Joann. “In an older home, the white and gray can give it a modern punch. But in the newer houses, we’re now beginning to see wallpaper and colors make a comeback.”

Then there’s that other, elusive color, green.

While everyone wants to be thought of as environmentally concerned, buyers today don’t appear to be insistent on having a “green home,” but eyes do light up at the prospect of a “smart” house, i.e., one connected to the owner’s smartphone.

“We’re helping sellers do this with existing homes,” says Susan Cassidy of Coldwell Banker.

“It’s not as difficult as one might think, even if the house was built in 1998. With Alexa and Google and Wi-Fi already present, it’s easier to create a smart home.”

Sellers are increasingly being warned of what might happen in the negotiations. “The whole appraisal process has changed,” says Susan, “and for the better in my opinion. There is less contact with the customer, so the appraiser is more

independent. The number will be more accurate.”

Sellers should also be aware that today’s buyers might be strategizing on the final inspection process. The seller just can’t accept a deal and sit back in anticipation of a pleasant transition. The buyer might request a new fence, a new barn, even a swimming-pool filter.

“Ten years ago,” says Eric Bjork, “you’d acknowledge that the air-conditioning unit was a certain age and would eventually need replacement, and then you’d move on. But now it’s become, ‘That AC has two years to go, replace it.’

And the seller is thinking, ‘Hey, wait. This is not a new house, this is a reconditioned house.’”

A seller can prepare for eventualities, of course, by getting an inspection early in the process.

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here has been a marked upswing in interest in one important tool for building buyer interest—the video presentation. Those sweeping aerials taken with drones were once reserved for the upper-crust houses, but no longer. “Video is huge now,” says Vicki D’Agostino. “We are doing a lot more video photography to capture the vastness of a property so consumers can get a sense of it all. Even if it’s not an expensive piece of land, you want to show how close it is to the town and water.”

To get the best Downton Abbey pictorials, you can’t forget the grounds. “You need to have the landscaping done,” says Shelly Tretter Lynch. “You could have a house that’s not in good shape, but if the landscaping is wonderful, it makes a big difference. It can add real presence to a house.”

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leads the buyer to feel it’s not quite done yet.”

Indeed, brokers have seen people fall in love with a house just looking from the street. Joann Erb talks about the importance of the streetscape.

“When they drive up, if it’s not attractive from the street, it’s already crossed off their list. You need to get them in the front door. Landscaping offers the biggest return on the money.”

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mmigrants from the city are, of course, the foundation of the Greenwich market.

Eric Bjork believes that 35 percent of our sales come from Gotham.

But what’s the future? “Manhattan has now had four quarters of negative numbers,” reports Rob Johnson. “It will be interesting to see what happens with that. The city tends to have a more responsive, liquid market, and prices adjust more quickly than in the suburbs. The shift in New York will have a big impact on our market if it continues.”

The big thing in our favor is that Greenwich has evolved tremendously in the last decade.

It’s now almost an outer borough of New York— only more tranquil and beautiful. Although some young families are now getting tempted by Brooklyn, Greenwich is not exactly Levittown.

As Jen Danzi points out, the diverse population, the high-end retailers in Greenwich, the boutique fitness salons, the restaurants, these all make New Yorkers feel at home.

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EMPOWERMENT Celebrating a century of the YWCA and the fierce and fearless women behind it

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ing the community ary Lee that the victim was a Kiernan person, not an object, was worand she deserved the ried. In early Februdignity of being called ary, the president and by name. “ObjectifyCEO of the YWCA ing her minimized the Greenwich had just violence that has taken received news of a “Through leadership, innovative place,” she wrote. “Let’s suspected homicide programs, services and educational not desensitize our in the community. opportunities, YWCA Greenwich is a community and our A woman’s body had driving force for a healthier, safer and children from the awbeen discovered in a more equitable community.”

—MARY LEE KIERNAN, CEO fulness of this event. suitcase. “We know Let’s push against that intimate partner violence is responsible for more than half the normalizing violence, particularly violence homicides in this country,” Mary Lee said. against women.”

“And human trafficking may have been in- Later, Mary Lee explains why she felt it was so important to speak out on behalf of the unvolved.”

She was right to worry. A young woman from named victim: “The phrase ‘suitcase murder’ New Rochelle was allegedly killed by a former was upsetting to me and many others who conboyfriend. When the press started referring tacted me,” she said. “The phrase degraded this to the case as the “suitcase murder,” Mary Lee victim further and minimized the horrific nawrote a letter to the Greenwich Time, remind- ture of the violence.” » APRIL 2019 GREENWICH

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Later, Mary Lee explains why she felt it was so important to speak out on behalf of the unnamed victim: “The phrase ‘suitcase murder’ was upsetting to me and many others who contacted me,” she said. “The phrase degraded this victim further and minimized the horrific nature of the violence.”

Since taking over the helm of the YWCA Greenwich three years ago, Mary Lee has been an outspoken champion for women’s rights, women’s empowerment and racial justice. Under her watch, the organization’s focus has been on “developing a strong core, raising the profile and expanding the impact of the mission,” she says. It has done this in a variety of ways. Last year, for instance, the YWCA established a free civil legal clinic as part of its domestic abuse services. It held its first panel discussion on human trafficking, which attracted a standing room only crowd.

It has been a fierce legislative advocate on a range of topics from domestic abuse to pay equity and sexual harassment. As part of its outreach to the LGBTQ community, the YWCA initiated a referral partnership with Anchor Health Initiative. And plans are in the works to launch the town’s first dedicated sexual assault services. “It’s all part of our mission to support the community in any way we can,” she says.

That mission is the desire to empower women and girls and promote inclusion and dignity for all. “Through leadership, innovative programs, services and educational opportunities, we are a driving force for a healthier, safer and more equitable community,” Mary Lee adds.

As the organization’s president, she is one in a long line of forwardthinking women who have guided the YWCA since its founding 100 years ago. That was in 1919, at the height of the women’s suffrage movement, and a year before females won the right to vote. Against all odds, a group of Greenwich women forged an ambitious plan: To create a local branch of the YWCA, which would provide safe, affordable housing for young single women and serve as a club where women could learn new skills and build camaraderie. In just six weeks, seven women raised $50,000, which was enough to buy the old hospital building on Milbank Avenue and bring their dream to life. “It was an extraordinary undertaking,” says Mary Lee. “Those women were going into uncharted territory. They had a vision and they were tenacious and resilient enough to carry it through.”

From the time it opened its doors to today, YWCA Greenwich has been on the leading edge of every important social and cultural movement in the U.S.—from civil rights to gender equality. In the early years, it provided courses for women in auto mechanics and electrical repair. In the 1930s, it created committees to address health, education, business and industry and public affairs. In 1949, it joined forces with YWCA USA to advocate to eliminate segregation and discrimination. And in the 1960s, it became clear that to fulfill its mission and accommodate its growing roster of programs, it would need a bigger, more efficient building. A capital campaign was launched; eighteen families raised enough money to buy a 6.5-acre parcel of land across from Christ Church. The YWCA

Greenwich moved into its new home in 1970, the year that saw the creation of the Dolphins swim team and the Young Black Business Professional and Homemakers Club. One of the most far reaching additions was the creation of the Domestic Abuse Services Advisory Council in 1981, followed in short order by a teenage pregnancy prevention program and the racial justice committee. And that was all before the turn of the twenty-first century.

Since then the number of groundbreaking initiatives and programs has continued apace. Former board member and chair from 1997 to 1998, Marianne Ho Barnum is the first Chinese-American to hold the position.

She has been involved with the YWCA since she started playing tennis there as a teenager growing up in Cos Cob; to this day Marianne can be found in the pool three times a week. During her board tenure, she got interested in racial justice. She shined a spotlight on the initiative by bringing workshops and training programs to the board, which led to her sixteen-year career at Brunswick, first as director of multiculturalism and inclusion and now as executive director of Horizons at Brunswick.

“The YWCA has been extremely influential in my life,” she says. “Besides the fitness side of things, it helped me discover a passion that I was able to take into my professional life.”

In 2008, the YWCA invited her back to lead a workshop on racial injustice. “That to me was like coming home in a lot of ways,” she says. “Doing something I loved that I could share with the current board and help them with their mission and their journey of discovery.”

In celebration of its centennial, and with an eye toward the future, the YWCA continues to evolve its role in the community. “Last year we launched a new strategic plan that will take us into the next century,” says Mary Lee. Helping to move that plan into action is the YWCA’s all-female board, which is comprised of twenty-eight visionary women in their own right. One such woman is Anne Juge, who takes over as incoming chair in July. Having grown up in Greenwich, Anne’s ties to the YW go way back. While still living and working in New York City, she started swimming there on Saturdays as part of her passion for endurance sports. Anne and her family eventually moved to Greenwich, where she jumped into volunteerism, joining several boards. In 2013 she received the YWCA’s Spirit of Greenwich Award and joined the YW board a year later.

“Our role is to carry on the work of our predecessors and to hold ourselves accountable to the strategic plan,” she says. “At the same time, we want to focus on programs. It’s so endearing to see children from preschool in the playground and then come inside to see older adults together playing bridge or talking. The organization serves Greenwich residents of all ages. You’re in a welcoming and safe environment, and that’s a great feeling.”

The YWCA Greenwich has enriched the lives of the community in countless ways. Meet some of the players, past and present, who have made a difference.

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Advocate for Change

By the 1960s, the YWCA had outgrown its original building on Milbank Avenue.

Recognizing the need for a new building, board chair and longtime Greenwich resident Toni Wyman led the charge. “She was very good at seeing a need and then saying, ‘Okay, let’s do this.’ She didn’t let things stand in her way of getting things done,” says her daughter, Leslie Cooper. “She was a professional volunteer, as so many effective people were during a time when many women didn’t have careers outside the house.”

Under the tutelage of her mentor, another former YWCA board chair, Gertrude White, Toni took volunteerism to a new level. She cofounded the Greenwich Arts Council, served on the boards of the

Bruce Museum, Greenwich Parks and Recreation and Parsonage Cottage, among others, and was involved with the Sunny Hill Children’s Center for autistic and special needs children. “That was at a time when there was nothing like it in town,” says Leslie. But perhaps Toni’s most enduring legacy is

“She was very good at seeing a need and then saying, ‘Okay, let’s do this.’

She didn’t let things stand in her way of getting things done.”

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the YWCA’s current home, which opened in 1970 and whose modernist architecture was viewed with suspicion by many townspeople. “For my mother and the women of the YW, the building symbolized something modern and new and forward-thinking, putting women’s interests and needs at the forefront,” says Leslie. “She felt the drive to make a difference. More than 350 people came to her memorial service when she died four years ago at the age of eighty-nine.

It was wonderful to see all the people she had touched.”

Gail Mills first came to the YWCA in 1950 as a camper at Greenwich Girl’s Day Camp. She still remembers riding the bus from Pemberwick to Tod’s Point, doing a hula dance in the talent show and counselors whose nicknames were Flopsy and Mopsy and Abner and Daisy Mae. “It was only one summer,” Gail recalls, “But I made very good friends there that I had all the way through high school.” She was just eighteen when she rented a room in the building on Milbank, where she lived for a year.

The rent was $12 a week. “I never went to college, so that was my experience of dorm life.” In 1990, when she was working full-time for the town of Greenwich, Gail enrolled her young son in the YWCA’s afterschool program.

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“I did a tour and it was hands-down the best program,” she says.

A few years later when she needed to find a second job, she turned to the YWCA once more. “They were looking for someone at night, and I was hired on the spot.” Today she is a valued member of the organization’s Member Services Team—the men and women who are the first point of contact for everyone who walks in the door. “I love the little children,” she says. “They are so precious.

They call me Miss Gail.” Now in her seventies and a grandmother of three, Gail works part-time four days a week. “I enjoy the contact with the public,” she says. “I enjoy trying to help people. The YW has always been a part of my life.

It wasn’t planned that way. It just fell into place.” »

“I love the little children.

They are so precious ... I enjoy the contact with the public.

I enjoy trying to help people.”

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SUE KNIGHT

VICKY DITRI

Gymnastics Guru

For the past thirty years, YWCA Greenwich gymnastics coach Sue Knight has helped hundreds, if not thousands, of youngsters discover the joys of tumbling, balancing, vaulting and swinging on bars. “It’s really fun,” she says.

“I just love the sport.” Sue, who also coaches the gymnastics team at Greenwich High School, came to the YWCA in the spring of 1989 on a whim. “I needed a job,” she recalls.

“I had a friend who was pregnant, and I filled in for her.

I’ve been there ever since.” At the time, Sue started working with all age groups, from eighteen months to teens, and she never looked back.

Today, she coaches three-year-olds and up.

For Sue, in many ways the program exemplifies the YWCA’s mission,

which serves to help women and girls find their voice and gain self-confidence and self-esteem.

She describes the courage it takes to successfully walk across a balance beam for the first time or swing around on uneven bars. “That determination, confidence and strength you need in gymnastics helps in any sport that you might go on to,” she says.

While she has achieved great success as the coach of the high school team, winning many state and regional titles, including the F.C.I.A.C. championships 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, at the YWCA, she measures success in other ways.

“Someone will come into class, shy and afraid to do a skill. And a few weeks later she is walking

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across the beam with confidence.

To you or to me it may seem like no big deal. But to them it’s a big thing. I love it.”

Thirty-one years ago, Vicky Ditri was a single mom when she came to the YWCA looking for day care for her two young children.

She needed a job, too, and the next thing she knew she was working as a teacher in the YW’s fledgling preschool program.

Back then it was designed to help out moms who wanted time to exercise.

As demand grew, so did the program; it now accommodates kids from fifteen months to five years.

Today, Vicky is one of two teachers who oversees eight youngsters in the twos’ section, who attend half-day classes five days a week. They follow a standardized curriculum established by the state. “It’s very play friendly,” says Vicky. “There’s a lot of talking and socialization at this

For Sue, in many ways the program exemplifies the YWCA’s mission, which serves to help women find their voice and gain selfconfidence and self-esteem.

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age.” In addition to word games and STEAM-focused exercises, the kids are taught self-help skills, etiquette and manners.

“They do snack, get their napkins and clean up,” says Vicky. “They learn to take their socks and shoes off for gymnastics.

Do you know how hard it is for twoyear-olds to take their socks off?”

For Vicky, the most gratifying part of her job is watching the kids grow from toddlers into selfpossessed, kind and compassionate high-schoolers.

“Sometimes they come back to visit, or I hear about them from another teacher,” she says.

“I get goosebumps.

I think, I had that child when she was two and look at her now.” »

In addition to word games and STEAMfocused exercises, the kids are taught selfhelp skills, etiquette and manners.

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Swim for Life been a few, but to make swimming part of their lives.’”

The head coach since 1977, Nick believes anyone can learn to swim. “It’s a very quantitative sport,” Nick says. “If you’re working on skills in all four strokes with a blend of endurancebased training, you will develop.”

He preaches discipline, practice and teamwork.

It’s a philosophy that has paid off in spades. The Dolphins are routinely winners at state and national meets.

Many go on to

“Winning is always fun for the kids, the team and the coach, but the journey is just as important.”

swim in college and eight have made it as far as the Olympic time trial qualifiers, with three in 2016.

“Winning is always fun for the kids, the team and the coach, but the journey is just as important,” he says. “As a coach, I get satisfaction from seeing somebody do their best, improve and see the results that come from that hard work.

Discipline and desire are critical to success. The fundamental elements that lay the groundwork for being a good swimmer, these are good lessons for life.”

In 2006, while studying for her master’s degree in social work, Meredith Gold began an internship in the domestic abuse services at the YWCA Greenwich.

“It was a real eyeopener for me,” she says. “I had never thought about working in the field of domestic abuse before this opportunity and realized very quickly this was where I wanted to focus my work.”

Back then, there were three full-time staff members, two part-time social workers and an intern.

Today, as executive director of the YW’s program, Meredith oversees a department that has thirteen employees, seven of whom work fulltime. According to the Greenwich Police Department, domestic abuse is the second most reported crime in

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Greenwich (the first is larceny), and the No. 1 violent crime. Last year, the domestic abuse services hotline fielded more than 3,500 calls, and the department helped 752 victims.

Meredith and her staff work hard to dismantle the myths around domestic violence.

Among them: that it is confined

“We have always responded to, and will continue to respond to, people in crisis. But the goal of these initiatives is to spark a shift in the culture...”

to a particular subset. “It does not discriminate,” she says. “Abuse is about control. No matter if someone is in Conyers Farm or Byram, you hear the same stories, and see the same patterns.” As part of the Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the YWCA program is one of eighteen agencies designated by the state to provide comprehensive services to victims, and to those impacted by domestic violence. It does this in a variety of ways, including direct intervention with access to an emergency shelter in a safe and secure location, criminal court advocacy, a civil legal clinic manned by volunteer attorneys, and financial literacy and empowerment programs, “Being housed in the YW is a huge

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When former board member Sareeta Bjerke’s girls were little, she enrolled them in the YWCA’s Dolphins swim program, under the leadership of Nick Cavataro. That was fifteen-plus years ago, but she still remembers them pounding the side of the pool with their fists, saying they didn’t want to stay. “Nick came up to me and told me it was time to go,” she recalls. “He said, ‘We got this.’”

Sure enough those little girls took to the program like, well, fish to water, going on to swim competitively in high school. Like so many Dolphin moms and dads, Sareeta credits coach Nick with her daughters’ transformation.

“I remember him saying, ‘We’re not about making Olympic swimmers, though that would be nice, and there have

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benefit,” Meredith says. “People feel comfortable coming into the building. They could be coming in for a variety of reasons; it doesn’t ‘out’ them and they feel safe and secure.”

Over the past ten years, the department has increased its awareness initiatives and community outreach. It collaborates with local police, town government, private businesses, community members and the school district; it hosts panels and seminars that are free and open to the public; it offers professional training and brings programs into the public schools.

“We have always responded to, and will continue to respond to, people in crisis,” she says.

“But the goal of these initiatives is to spark a shift in the culture and in gender norms and to prevent future incidents of abuse by teaching about healthy relationships to young people.

Domestic abuse thrives in the silence and the shadows. I always say Greenwich is a safe community, but for many people the most dangerous place is inside their house.”

CELEBRATING 100 YEARS:

THE CENTENNIAL GALA! Join the celebration as the YWCA commemorates its 100th birthday on Saturday, June 1, from 6:30 to midnight. Dinner and dancing to DJ Mad Marj under a tent in the YW’s backyard. Dress is summer white, in honor of the women’s suffrage movement.

To purchase tickets, visit ywcagreenwich.org.

A SNAPSHOT OF SPECIAL EVENTS AND PROGRAMS In its role as a vital member of the community, and to promote its key mission initiatives, the YWCA offers a variety of events and programs throughout the year.

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In April the YWCA joins other YWCAs across the country for Stand Against Racism, a signature campaign of YWCA USA to raise awareness about the negative impact of institutional and structural racism.

At this event, the YWCA Greenwich presents Racial Justice Scholarship awards to high school students who are working to eliminate racism and set the standards for inclusion of all students and community members.

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In January, in partnership with the town and other community leaders, it honors the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by exploring topics he would care deeply about. This year’s topic was modern-day slavery.

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For middle school girls, YWCA’s Girls Circle and Girls Circle Camp promote

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healthy relationship skills in an emotionally safe environment.

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One of the most highly anticipated events of the year is the annual Old Bags Luncheon, which features silent and live auctions of new handbags, designer bags and vintage bags. Held at the Belle Haven Club, this spirited event raises money to help fund the organization’s Domestic Abuse Services.

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The state-of-the-art preschool program is designed for kids age fifteen months to five years.

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After-school programs and vacation camps are available for children in kindergarten to fifth grade.

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The YW Hub, new last year, is for girls and boys in sixth to eighth grade.

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The organization’s annual “Women Who Inspire Awards” reflects its commitment to empowering women and girls. Through the YNet youth leadership program at Greenwich High School, the YWCA Greenwich promotes leadership and awareness and prevention of teen dating violence.

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n November, investment industry sages from near and far gathered at the Delamar Hotel for the first-ever Greenwich Economic Forum, and the news they brought, like the weather outside, was a wintry mix. The nine-year bull market is nearing an end. Interest rates are creeping up.

An economic downturn could hit as early as this year, though most of the sages guessed it would begin in 2020.

Paul Tudor Jones, founder of Tudor Investment Corporation and one of two Greenwich billionaire rock stars at the forum, spoke of “really

challenging times” and “scary moments” ahead. The other rock star, Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund in the world, has been thinking about hard times so intensely that he wrote an entire book about them, Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises, which is available for free download. “As a bubble nears its top,” Dalio writes, “the economy is most vulnerable, but people are feeling the wealthiest and the most bullish.”

Outside the Delamar, in the world of economic laypeople, the sentiment was bullish indeed. How could it not be, with low unemployment, a soaring (if newly volatile) stock market, and robust consumer confidence? But the sages at the Greenwich Economic Forum—some 300 leading minds in finance from Washington to Abu Dhabi to Beijing—know more and see farther than the rest of us do. Jones, for instance, has his eye on a worrisome corporate debt bubble. Having gorged on cheap credit for a decade, companies may soon find themselves squeezed by debt as interest rates rise and growth slows.

“I don’t know whether we’re supposed to run for the exits,” he said as the sky thickened outside the windows; before long snow would be falling rapidly into the green chop of Greenwich Harbor. “But there probably will be some really scary moments in corporate credit, and those cracks are beginning to show—dramatically.” Jones does not count himself a fan of 2017’s huge corporate tax cuts. Like any sugar high, the cuts’ pleasant effects wore off quickly and are leaving some sluggishness in their wake; and because they encouraged yet more borrowing, the cuts may even “prick the bubble” and spur a recession, Jones remarked.

Speakers who shied from using the “R” word provided little more comfort. “Over the last earnings period you could hear the tone changing,” Dmitry Balyasny, a founder of Balyasny Asset Management, noted. “There’s definitely a lot more caution than there was before.” “It’s not that there’s going to be a crisis or a disaster,” said William Michaelcheck,

Beyond the ROI

The two-day Greenwich Economic Forum is designed to be a “mini-Davos”—a mini-World Economic Forum—according to Bruce McGuire, a forum cofounder and president of the

Connecticut Hedge Fund Association. In this it succeeded, complete with snowy backdrop.

The forum delivered expert views on what lies over the economic horizon, even if those views were mostly bearish and a little depressing. We should note, however, that a little bearishness excites the salivary glands of some investors.

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to do well in volatile conditions, where expertise really counts, whereas any fool can ride a bull market. Over the last decade, the average fool did much better than the average hedge fund manager. Obliquely referencing this, apparently, were the red baseball caps tucked in forumgoers’ gift bags: “Make Volatility Great Again,” they read.

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“It’s all halted and stalled by lack of funds, lack of investment. It becomes wasted talent that goes down the drain, because there’s nothing there to support it.”

“We have to modernize capitalism ... If you’re going to have social change in this country, it has to start with our companies.”

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But the forum concerned itself with far greater stuff than anyone’s return on investment.

The most bracing news—even more bracing than the specter of a recession—had to do with the “wealth gap,” as Ray Dalio calls it, that is widening as you read this and will widen further in a downturn. While the downturn probably won’t look like the tumble off a cliff

that 2008 looked like, it will deepen the social and political divides we see now. “Right now, times are good and we’re sort of at each other’s throats,” Dalio said in a recent interview. As a close student of history’s economic cycles and crises, what did late 2018 remind Dalio of?

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“Among the questions to consider are: Will the machines take over?

Will our children be plagued by mass unemployment?

Will environmental changes be our civilization’s downfall?” of the Great Depression when a recession hit, plunging us back into the muck.

As Dalio noted, severe economic stress typically provokes a populist surge—it did so in the Gilded Age and again in the 1930s. It’s fair to say that the Great Recession of 2008 and its too-slow recovery gave us President Trump.

There’s a rich irony in this—a man who washes

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Attendees included financial service experts from all over the country; Venture capitalist Annie Lamont addresses the crowd.

The forum delivered expert views on what lies over the economic horizon, even if those views were mostly bearish and a little depressing. we should note, however, that a little bearishness excites the salivary glands of some investors.

his hands in a gold-plated sink as savior of the working person. Trump undeniably made believers of the (white) disaffected, but it’s hard to see how he’ll improve the wealth gap with policy choices like diminished access to health care, gutted consumer protections, farm-unfriendly trade tariffs, and tax cuts keyed to corporations and the wealthy. Dalio, for his part, considers the wealth gap a “national emergency” and has said he hopes the president will appoint a bipartisan commission to study the problem and generate solutions.

Paul Tudor Jones is equally concerned.

“Wealth disparity is the single most threatening social problem we face as a country,” he said, the chilling message softened only a little by his warm Tennessee drawl. “You can see the fissures.” These fissures had begun to remind him of the social unrest he witnessed in the late sixties and early seventies. Among the present signs of discontent is a 2018 Gallup Poll finding that, for the first time, American millennials hold a more positive view of socialism than of capitalism, Jones told his decidedly capitalist

audience. The statistics suggest why: 95 percent of growth since the recovery has gone to the top 1 percent of the population, and the wealth of the top one-tenth of 1 percent is now equal to that of the bottom 90 percent.

We’ve been traveling toward this moment for a long time—since the 1980s—when productivity growth began to far outpace income growth, indicating that average Americans weren’t sharing in the spoils. “We have to modernize capitalism” when it isn’t working for the majority of Americans, Jones warned. “If you’re going to have social change in this country, it has to start with our companies.”

Companies are where the economic power lies: The $19 trillion private sector is four times bigger than the public sector and forty times bigger than the philanthropic sector. In advancing the notion of companies contributing to the greater good—corporate “justness”—Jones breaks sharply with Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman and his influential view that a company’s sole job is to increase shareholder profits, social APRIL 2019 GREENWICH

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conscience be damned. “We have to invest in good, old-fashioned business practices,” Jones said. “It can’t just be about shareholders and profits.”

In 2013 Jones founded Just Capital, a nonprofit that ranks companies based on how they treat and compensate their employees, how good their products are, how they treat their customers, and their impact on the environment, among other “just” metrics. (Intel topped Just Capital’s 2017 ranking, followed

by Texas Instruments, Nvidia, Microsoft and IBM.) But does it pay to be just? Apparently so. In a comparison of the justest versus the biggest, the Just 500 Index is outperforming the Russell 1000 by about 4 percent, Jones noted with satisfaction.

The hip-hop artist Akon—a forum highlight—also exemplified doing well by doing good. Dressed in a white suit with black buttons, the five-time Grammy nominee spoke inspiringly of his “network of untapped entrepreneurs,” the NUE Initiative. Born in St. Louis and raised in Senegal and New Jersey, Akon said his difficult younger years, including a brief stretch in prison, made him a natural entrepreneur—“a natural born hustler.” But in the ’hood there were no channels for his gifts.

“It’s all halted and stalled by lack of funds, lack of investment,” he said. “It becomes wasted talent that goes down the drain, because there’s nothing there to support it.” NUE’s goal is to create an “entrepreneurial ecosystem” for the young Akons of the world, people brimming

M ONEY TALK… with ideas and energy who live in opportunity deserts. “Where are these entrepreneurs?

They’re all over,” said Robert Smith, one of Akon’s key business partners, who was sitting next to him. “The problem is, most people only think about Silicon Valley, Silicon Beach and Silicon Alley,” the tech/venture capital hubs of the San Francisco Bay area, Los Angeles and New York.

Akon rose to the top of the music world around 2007 (producing for Lady Gaga and Michael Jackson in addition to making his own multi-platinum records), and then bounced to the top of the entrepreneurial class. Much of his business activity is in Africa. Smith gave the audience an idea of the scale of Akon’s achievement: “What he’s been able to do in navigating across a war-torn continent is truly monumental. He’s provided electricity to now approaching 100 million people.”

Akon continues to think big. Not only has he launched a cryptocurrency—Akoin—but he’s also building a futuristic town in Senegal— Akon Crypto City—for which Akoin will be the exclusive currency. Oh, and he’s “seriously considering” running for president of the United States in 2020.

Globally Speaking Other dominant themes at the forum included America’s retreat from globalization, which everybody seemed to think was regrettable, and China’s concurrent embrace of it. China seemed to be on everybody’s lips. On the credit side, investors were bullish, seeing China as a land of limitless opportunity. Ray Dalio, who has opened a fund there, said, “Yeah, I’m excited about China. I can’t understand how anybody couldn’t be.” Even though it’s coming off a bad year, he added, “a bad year in China is going to have twice the productivity of a good year in the United States.” On the debit side, investing in

China can be tricky because regulations change by the day. There are also those pesky trade tensions to worry about.

Afsaneh Beschloss, the founder and CEO of the Rock Creek Group, said the time is right to watch emerging markets closely, particularly Africa. After a lackluster five years, they could be poised for big growth again as U.S. interest rates rise and our economy slows. “[Emerging markets] probably have some of the best values you’ve seen in a very long time,” she said. “But we haven’t seen the trigger point yet.”

McGuire had heard similar news. “You’d be surprised at how many big financial firms are spending a lot of time focusing on Africa,” he said. He mentioned a talk he had recently with the CEO of a large U.S. financial services firm.

“I’d just come back from a trip to China, and I said, ‘Everything’s going on in China, right? I’ll bet your spending a lot of time on China.’ And he looked at me and said, ‘No, actually, China’s kind of a pain in the neck. We’re spending more of our time on Africa.”

But the talk always circled back to the snow clouds massing on the American horizon.

If things get really bad, we’ll not only see tried-and-true corporations go bust (the faltering GE and Anheuser-Busch were both mentioned darkly), but we’ll also see states and municipalities fail to meet their pension and health-care obligations. Brrr!

The Greenwich Economic Forum grew out of a concern that onerous Connecticut tax policies were driving financial service leaders from the state, First Selectman Peter Tesei told us. How serious was the problem? Tesei, McGuire, cofounder Jim Aiello and others decided to flip the question around: Why not showcase Greenwich’s enduring financial hegemony?

“Sure, the forum was a cool, fun thing to do,” said McGuire, “but we also wanted to cement Greenwich’s position as a finance capital.”

Connecticut is home to 211 active hedge fund managers—the vast majority of them in Greenwich—with $390 billion in their care.

Connecticut is thus the second biggest hedge fund state, behind New York, and Greenwich

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boasts the greatest concentration of hedge fund managers outside Manhattan.

The inaugural forum hinted at big, broad intellectual ambitions. As Tesei said in his opening remarks, “Among the questions to ponder and consider are: Will the machines take over? Will our children be plagued by mass unemployment? Will environmental changes be our civilization’s downfall?” (An optimist, Tesei believes that man and machine will together steer us through whatever rough waters lie ahead.) “Our vision is to be something like Greenwich’s answer to the Aspen Institute or the Milken Institute,” said McGuire, naming famous think tanks that hold annual “ideas” conferences.

The Greenwich Economic Forum isn’t quite there yet. “But it worked out beyond our expectations for the first year,” McGuire said, noting the international press coverage and enthusiastic feedback from attendees. Tesei and McGuire suggested that future forums could draw on the region’s abundant “intellectual capital”—people in the arts, entertainment and sports—to supplement the finance crowd’s view of anything economic.

For now, the Greenwich Economic Forum seems a natural evolution for a town that wants to flex its cultural muscle. It joins the Greenwich Town Party (2011) and the Greenwich International Film Festival (2015) as new events of impressive quality and scope. One future challenge will be the venue: Though the Delamar is perfect in many ways—waterfront setting, luxurious ambience—it’s a bit small. In coming years the town might explore holding some forum talks at the new, world-class Bruce Museum, whose expansion will be complete (we hope) in 2020.

On the second day of the forum, rain fell in sheets and the wind blew fiercely, making the colorful “Greenwich Economic Forum” banners lining Arch Street flap and shake. Inside, panelists talked about artificial intelligence, algorithmic trading, and once again, the volatile future. But by midday, out of nowhere, the sky turned blue.

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At the Greenwich Sentinel we have great respect for Greenwich Magazine. Most of us have been reading it, and looking for our photos in it, since we were in our twenties. Our publications share similar missions, to celebrate Greenwich. We know that our hometown is unique and wonderful.

Yet, even here, we see how stressful, full lives can overwhelm the calmest disposition. No one wants to be judged for their worst moments, so this February let’s show each other and the world a little extra warmth and remind everyone why Greenwich and our residents are so special. February is home to Valentine’s Day (14) and Random Acts of Kindness Day (17). In this spirit, here are our anonymous friend’s updated Acts of Kindness.

27 ACTS of KINDNESS Help others to be the hero of their own story.

Ask the name of your mail carrier, coffee server, waitress/waiter, valet attendant, the person at the front desk, etc. and use their name.

Never, ever use the phrase, do you know who I am?

Send a hand written thank you note.

Put your phone away and be an active listener.

When you think a nice thing about someone, say it out loud.

Email or write to a former teacher who made a difference in your life.

Tell your child that you really like spending time with them (and be prepared to answer when they ask why).

Avoid interrupting others when they are speaking.

Refrain from honking your horn unless it is a safety issue.

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Support and cheer for our local everything: retailers, scouts, paper, magazine, schools, teams, lemonade stands, and charities. It matters.

Use those email & social media muscles to be nice: send messages of gratitude and use that LIKE button.

Be excited for other people’s successes ... out loud.

Be the hero of your story.

Always hold the door or elevator for the next person.

Each month pick up one extra of everything when you grocery shop and drop it off at Neighbor to Neighbor.

Ask how can I help?

Laugh more. Laugh louder.

Each night fall asleep thinking about the best thing that happened that day.

Purchase extra dog or cat food and drop it off at the animal control center on North Street with some old tennis balls.

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Smile... great! Now smile at someone while making eye contact.

Let the person in line behind you go ahead of you if they are in a hurry or with children or just have a few items.

When you’re ready to unload your temper on someone, especially in the service industry (like baristas and cashiers), say a prayer for them instead.

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CANFIN GALLERY, 39 Main St.,Tarrytown, NY, 914-3324554. Tues.-Sun., 11 a.m.5 p.m. or by appt. Fine paintings and sculptures by established and emerging contemporary artists from all over the world.

CAVALIER GALLERIES, 405 Greenwich Ave., 8693664. Mon.-Sat., 10:30 a.m.6 p.m.; Sun., noon-5 p.m., or by appt. A showcase of a select group of established and emerging artists who represent the finest in modern painting, sculpture and photography.

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Tues.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN, Bronx River Pkwy. and Fordham Rd., 718-817-8616. Tues.-Sun. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tues. 1-28, The Orchid Show. The Orchid Show: Singapore. This year celebrates its 17th year at The New York Botanical Garden.

PELHAM ART CENTER, 155 Fifth Ave., Pelham, NY, 914738-2525 ext. 113. Tues.-Fri. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat. noon-4 p.m.

ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER, 145 Rowayton Ave., Rowayton, 866-2744. Tues.-Sat., noon-5 p.m.; Sun., 1-4 p.m.

CONCERTS, FILM & THEATER ARENA AT HARBOR YARD, 600 Main St., Bridgeport, 345-2300.

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AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER, 272 Bedford St., Stamford, 661-0321. »

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This spring the Flinn Gallery presents Spaces of Uncertainty, featuring the works of painter Valeri Larko and photographer Linda Kuehne. The artists’ meticulously crafted images expose the unexpected poetic beauty of overlooked and forgotten spaces. The exhibition runs from March 21 through Tuesday, April 30 and is curated

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KENISE BARNES FINE ART, 1947 Palmer Ave., Larchmont, NY, 914-834-8077. Tues.Sat., 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., or by appt. Visit kbfa.com for show information.

LOFT ARTISTS ASSOCIATION, 575 Pacific St., Stamford, 247-2027 or loftartists.com. Gallery open Saturdays and Sundays 1-4:30 p.m.

LOCKWOOD-MATHEWS MANSION MUSEUM, 295 West Ave., Norwalk, 838-9799. Wed.-Sun., noon-4 p.m. Visit

MARITIME AQUARIUM, 10 N. Water St., S. Norwalk, 852-0700. Daily, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

The Maritime Aquarium inspires people of all ages to appreciate

and protect the Long Island Sound ecosystem and the global environment through living exhibits, marine science and environmental education.

MICHAEL FLORIO GALLERY, 135 Mason Street, 858-5743. Specializing in established and emerging contemporary artists, marine art and curiosities. Open most days by chance or by appointment, Michaelflorio.com.

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Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy (ACGT), the nation’s only nonprofit dedicated exclusively to funding cancer cell and gene therapy research, is celebrating its eighteenth anniversary with a gala in New York City on Thursday, April 18 at the Harvard Club. The evening will also honor Dr. Carl H. June for his lifesaving cell treatment for leukemia and lymphoma. For more information call 203-358-5055 or email agoldman@acgtfoundation.org.

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Our Wednesday lectures are rich with history, information and insights on how art impacts society.

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Time & Place: Works on Paper

The Artist as Writer Brian Catling - London-based artist and fiction novelist, will share his journey and how his creative process evolves into multiple disciplines.

May 15 | 2pm

“Heidegger on Time and Place” Lecture by Professor Alex Priou

June 2 | 2pm Artist Talk

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Justin Kim & Shona Macdonald

Pre-lecture receptions in gallery 5:30pm.

All lectures held 7-8 p.m. in the Cole Auditorium at Greenwich Library.

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Greenwich United Way Join the Greenwich United Way for the fourteenth annual Sole Sisters luncheon on Tuesday, April 23 at Greenwich Country Club. This year’s keynote speaker will be Lauren Bush Lauren, CEO and cofounder of FEED Projects. The shopping boutique opens at 9:30 a.m. and the luncheon begins at noon. For tickets visit greenwichunitedway.org.

Visit avontheatre.org for special events and guests speakers.

THE CHAMBER PLAYERS OF THE GREENWICH SYMPHONY, Sun. 28, Round Hill Community Church, 395 Round Hill Rd., 4 p.m.; Mon. 29, Greenwich Arts Council, 299 Greenwich Ave., 7:30 p.m., 6226611. Adult tickets $40; student tickets $10. Visit greenwichsymphony.org for special performances.

CURTAIN CALL, The Sterling Farms Theatre Complex, 1349 Newfield Ave., Stamford, 329-8207. Mon. 1-27, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. Visit curtaincallinc.com for more information.

DOWNTOWN CABARET THEATRE, 263 Golden Hill St., Bridgeport, 576-1636.

Mon. 1-7, Sister Act, visit dtcab.com for show times.

EDGERTON CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, Sacred Heart University, 5151 Park Ave., Fairfield, 371-7908.

FAIRFIELD THEATRE COMPANY, on StageOne, 70 Sanford St., Fairfield, 2591036. Visit fairfieldtheatre.org for dates, shows and times.

GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE, 6 Main St., East Haddam, 860-873-8668.

Fri. 12-June 16, The Music Man. GREENWICH LIBRARY, 101 W. Putnam Ave., 6227900. Friends Friday Films: Fri. 5, Won’t You Be My »

Breast Cancer Alliance Cheer on the kiddos when the BCA opens the runway to twenty local students on Sunday, April 7 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Students will “werk” fabulous fashions from Richards to benefit the Junior BCA Committee. Schools include Bronxville High School, Brunswick, Greens Farms Academy, Greenwich Academy, Greenwich High School and Sacred Heart Greenwich. $30 per student, $75 per adult, for tickets visit breastcanceralliance.org/events. greenwichmag.com

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Thursday, May 9 • Belle Haven Club • 11:00 am Donate a new or gently used designer bag to the Old Bags Auction and help raise funds for YWCA Greenwich Domestic Abuse Services.

Join the fight against domestic violence. For luncheon tickets or to donate a bag, call Jackie Stam at 203-869-6501 ext 102 or go to ywcagreenwich.org/bags Old Bags Luncheon is a trademark of Little Blackbird, Inc.

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Sun. 7, First Sunday Bird Walk at Greenwich Point, 9-11 a.m.

AUX DÉLICES, 23 Acosta St., Stamford, 326-4540, ext. 108.

Visit auxdelicesfoods.com for menu listings and class dates; all classes 7-9:30 p.m.

BOWMAN OBSERVATORY PUBLIC NIGHT, NE of Milbank/East Elm St. rotary on the grounds of Julian Curtiss School, 869-6786, ext. 338. Wed. 3 and 17, Observatory open to the

public free of charge, 8-10 p.m., weather permitting.

Sponsored by the Astronomical Society of Greenwich.

BRUCE MUSEUM, 1 Museum Dr., 869-0376. Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. 1-5 p.m. The museum offers docent-led tours, family gallery tours and toddler tours; visit brucemuseum.org for details.

CLAY ART CENTER, 40 Beech St., Port Chester, NY, 914-937-2047. Clay Art Center’s mission is to offer »

Greenwich Symphony Orchestra On Saturday, April 13 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, April 14 at 4 p.m., Greenwich Symphony Orchestra will perform with French violinist Chloé Kiffer. The concert will take place at the Performing Arts Center at Greenwich High School. A free pre-concert lecture will be held one hour before each performance. Adult tickets are $40, students $10. Call 203-869-2664 or visit greenwichsymphony.org for more information.

Neighbor; Fri. 12, The Post; Fri. 26, The Florida Project; all films are free.

JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER, 364 Manville Rd., Pleasantville, NY, 914773-7663. Visit website for titles and times burnsfilmcenter.org.

LONG WHARF THEATRE, 222 Sargent Dr., New Haven, 787-4282. For show information on the 2019 season or to purchase tickets visit longwharf.com.

RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE, 80 East Ridge, Ridgefield, 438-9269.

For shows and times visit ridgefieldplayhouse.org.

RIDGEFIELD THEATER BARN, 37 Halpin Ln., Ridgefield, 431-9850.

Fri. 5 and 6, Piano Bar… N, 8 p.m.

SHUBERT THEATER, 247 College St., New Haven, 562-5666. Visit shubert.com for dates and show times.

STAMFORD CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Palace Theatre, 61 Atlantic St., Stamford, 325-4466. Visit stamfordcenterforthearts.org for more shows, dates and times.

WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE, 25 Powers Ct., Westport, 227-4177. Tues.

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For all you bookworms: Literary Matters will be hosting the noted journalist, David Brooks, on Tuesday, April 23 at 7 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church of Greenwich. Brooks will discuss his new book, The Second Mountain, followed by a Q & A. The cost for this event is $75 (includes a copy of the book). For tickets make your checks payable to Literary Matters and send to Literary Matters, 16 Highmeadow Rd., Old Greenwich, CT 06870. For more information, contact Esther Bushell at 203-6373131 or at esther.literarymatters@gmail.com.

ALDRICH MUSEUM, 258 Main St., Ridgefield, 438-0198. Tues.-Sun. noon5 p.m.; Fri. until 8 p.m. Fri. 5, First Fridays: A Contemporary Cocktail Party with live music, 7-9 p.m.; visit aldrichart.org for more information.

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CONNECTICUT CERAMICS STUDY CIRCLE, First Congregational Church of Greenwich, Old Greenwich, 108 Sound Beach Avenue, Mon. 8, The Birth of Studio Ceramics, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. For reservations and information visit ctcsc.org.

FAIRFIELD MUSEUM AND HISTORY CENTER, 370 Beach Rd., Fairfield, 259-1598.

Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., noon-4 p.m. Visit fairfieldhistory.org for tours.

GARDEN EDUCATION CENTER, 130 Bible St., 869-9242 or gecgreenwich .org. Pruning class, plant doctor series, fruit tree grafting and more. Visit website for classes, dates and times.

Preregistration required online.

GREENWICH LIBRARY, 101 W. Putnam Ave., 6227900. The library offers a variety of programs: Blood Pressure Screenings, Drop-In Computer Lab, Chess Club, Volunteer Tax Assistance, Foreign Affairs Book Discussion Group; for dates and times visit greenwichlibrary.org.

The Greenwich Historical Society’s annual landmarks recognition program will be held on Sunday, April 28 at Greenwich Country Club from 4 to 6 p.m. The event will recognize four properties with plaques for design excellence and their value in preserving Greenwich’s unique architectural legacy. Architect Joseph Pell Lombardi, owner of the National Historical Landmark Armour-Stiner (Octagon) House in Irvington, New York (one of the most visually unique homes in the world), will be the keynote speaker. For ticket information visit greenwichhistory.org or call 203-869-6899, ext. 10.

KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART, 26 Bedford Rd., Chappaqua, NY, 914-232-9555. Guided tours are Tuesday through Sunday at 2:30 p.m.

STAMFORD MUSEUM & NATURE CENTER, 39 Scofieldtown Rd., Stamford, 977-6521. Mon.-Sat. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday night Observatory Visitors’ Night, 8:30 p.m.

OTHER EVENTS & BENEFITS CONNECTICUT AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE LUNCHEON, Greenwich Hyatt, Wed. 24, Fundraising luncheon to benefit (CAGV), 11:30 a.m. For more information visit cagc.org.

GREENWICH BOAT SHOW, Sat. 6 and 7, The show will be held on the Mianus River in Cos Cob; boaters are invited to walk the docks and go out on the open waters of Long Island Sound. The show features boats by Chris Craft, Tiara, Hinckley, Back Cove, Southport Boats and Hunt Yachts, Edgewater, Scout, Grady White, Pursuit, Boston Whaler, Regulator, World »

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Sat. 20, Family Art Experiences, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

an auditorium and five multipurpose classrooms where hands-on science classes are conducted for schools, groups and the general public.

AUDUBON GREENWICH, 613 Riversville Rd., 869-5272.

Sun. 7, bundle up for the first Sunday bird walk, Tod’s Point, 9 a.m.

DOWNTOWN CABARET THEATRE, 263 Golden Hill St., Bridgeport, 576-1636.

Sat. 13-May 19, Snow White.

AUX DÉLICES, 23 Acosta St., Stamford, 326-4540 ext.

108. Visit auxdelicesfoods .com for menu listings and class dates.

Focus on French Cinema Focus on French Cinema 2019 will celebrate fifteen years of the best of French-language film from around the world with the theme, Vive Le Cinéma Francophone. FFC2019 will include movies from France, Belgium, Quebec, Switzerland, Africa and beyond.

An opening night gala will be held at the Greenwich Arts Council on Friday, April 26. For more information and tickets visit focusonfrenchcinema.com or call the Alliance Française at 203-629-1340.

Cat, Sea Fox, Sea Ray, Monterey, Carolina Cat, Chaparral, Regal and pontoon brands. greenwichboatshow.com, rain or shine.

GREENWICH SYMPHONY GALA, Greenwich Country Club.

Sat. 27, Enjoy cocktails, dinner, dancing and silent auction, to benefit Young People’s Concert, 7 p.m.

For more information call 203-869-2664 PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND, The Stamford Marriott. Wed. 3, PPSNE

will hold its annual benefit luncheon. The event brings together PPSNE supporters from all across Fairfield County. Keynote speaker will be legendary Gloria Steinem, writer, feminist organizer and political activist. Cochairing the event are Danielle Eason, Katey Goldberg, Anne Goodnow, Diane McEnroe, Donna Moffly and Sheila Mossman.

To register or make a contribution online go to ppsne.org/ springluncheon or contact Laurie Diorio at laurie.diorio@ppsne.org or 203-752-2813.

BEARDSLEY ZOO, 1875 Noble Ave., Bridgeport, 394-6565. open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. One of Connecticut’s top family attractions. See more than 300 animals representing North and South American species and learn about their endangered and threatened species, which include the Amur (Siberian) tiger, Andean condor, Ocelot, Red wolf, Maned wolf, Giant Anteater and Golden lion tamarin. Then grab a bite at the Peacock Café and take a ride on the carousel.

BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH, 4 Horseneck Lane, 869-3224.

Visit bgcg.org for upcoming events and programs at the club.

BRUCE MUSEUM, 1 Museum Dr., 869-0376. Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. 1-5 p.m.

Visit brucemueum .org for updated classes and exhibits and after school vacation workshops. Sun. 7, First Sunday Science at the Seaside Center, 1:30-4 p.m.

DISCOVERY MUSEUM AND PLANETARIUM, 4450 Park Ave., Bridgeport, 372-3521. Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. noon5 p.m. The museum’s 20,000-square-foot facility includes changing and permanent interactive exhibit galleries, a planetarium, Challenger Learning Center,

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EARTHPLACE, 10 Woodside Lane, Westport, 227-7253.

The mission of Earthplace is to build a passion within the community for nature and the environment through education, experience and action, earthplace.org.

GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 39 Strickland St., 869-6899. April vacation workshops, visit hstg.org for more details.

GREENWICH LIBRARY, 101 W. Putnam Ave., 622-7900. The library offers many programs for children: Wee Ones, Tales for Tots, Baby Lapsit, Mother Goose Story Time, call or visit greenwichlibrary.org for dates and times.

IMAX THEATER AT MARITIME AQUARIUM, 10 N. Water St., S. Norwalk, 852-0700. For special documentaries and Hollywood films on IMAX, check website for films and times, maritimeaquatium .org.

KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART, Rte. 22 at Jay St., Katonah, NY, 914-232-9555.

Tues.-Fri. and Sun. 1-5 p.m.; Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays for Tots, 1 p.m; Picture This!

Saturday Story Time, select Saturdays, 10:30 a.m.

MARITIME AQUARIUM, 10 N. Water St., S. Norwalk, 852-0700. Daily 10 a.m.5 p.m. The Maritime Aquarium inspires people of all ages to appreciate and protect the Long Island Sound ecosystem and the global environment through living exhibits, marine

science and environmental education.

NEW CANAAN NATURE CENTER, 144 Oenoke Ridge, New Canaan, 966-9577.

Visit newcanaannature.org to learn about their monthly Friday Family Fun Night.

RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE, 80 East Ridge, Ridgefield, 438-5795. Sat. 6, The Jungle Book, 1 p.m. Visit ridgefieldplayhouse.org for more show information.

STAMFORD CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Palace Theatre, 61 Atlantic St., Stamford, 325-4466.

Tues. 30, PJ Masks Live!, 3 and 6 p.m.

STAMFORD MUSEUM & NATURE CENTER, 39 Scofieldtown Rd., Stamford, 977-6521 or stamfordmuseum.org.

Mon.-Sat. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat. 13, 14, 20, Forest Easter Egg Adventures, 11 a.m.4:30 p.m.; Tues. 16, 17, 18, Family Take a Hike Week; for ongoing programs visit stamfordmuseum.org STEPPING STONES MUSEUM FOR CHILDREN, 303 West Ave., Mathews Park, Norwalk, 899-0606.

Daily 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Ongoing exhibits: Energy Lab, Tot Town, build it!, stateof-the-art Multimedia Gallery and Light Gallery; Ongoing events: science lab, community gardens; Rainforest Adventures and Color Coaster; visit steppingstonesmuseum.org for daily classes and times.

WESTPORT ARTS CENTER, 51 Riverside Ave., Westport, 222-7070. Visit westportartscenter.org to sign up for workshops and summer camps.

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Citibank/Perry Gaa & Joseph Potvin . . . . 35 Cummings & Lockwood LLC . . . . . . . . 16 First Republic Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

American Red Cross Red & White Ball . . 123 Best of Greenwich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Best of the Gold Coast 2019 . . . . . . . . 100 CAGV Annual Benefit Luncheon . . . . . 126 Fairfield County's Community Foundation/ The Fund for Women & Girls 2019 Luncheon Thank You . . . 115 Greenwich Chamber of Commerce Business Showcase . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Greenwich Education Group Private Day & Boarding School Fair . . . . . . . . . 129 Greenwich Hospital Foundation's Under the Stars . . . . . . . . . . . . 82, 83 Greenwich Town Party . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Greenwich Tree Conservancy/ The Tree Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Junior League of Greenwich Touch A Truck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Kids in Crisis 2019 Spring Fling Back To Our Boots Thank You . . . . . 130 Moffly Media's 2019 Event Lineup . . . . 116 Moffly Media's Women in the Know . . . 131 Old Bags Luncheon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 River House Adult Day Center Silver Jubilee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 SoundWaters Flotilla . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 SoundWaters Harborfest . . . . . . . . . 129 SoundWaters Tall Ships Ball . . . . . . . . 129 Spring for abilis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 St. Jude Give to Live Gala . . . . . . . . . .133

DECORATING & HOME FURNISHINGS

FASHION

Flinn Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

AUTOMOTIVE Land Rover Darien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

BUILDING & HOME IMPROVEMENT California Closets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Clarke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Davenport Contracting . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Garrett Wilson Builders . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Glengate Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Grand Entrance Gates . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Granoff Architects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Hilton Architecture & Interiors . . . . . . . 22 Koushouris Construction LLC . . . . . . . . 81 Northeast Generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Robert A. Cardello Architecture + Design . . . . . . . . . . . 47 SBP Homes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Thompson Raissis Architects . . . . . . . . 70 Tischler und Sohn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Wadia Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . Cover 3 Walpole Outdoors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

BUSINESS & FINANCE

Amy Aidinis Hirsch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 WOWHAUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Roundabout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

FOOD, CATERING & LODGING EDUCATION & CHILDREN Brunswick School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Columbia University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Fairfield University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Villa Maria School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

ENTERTAINMENT London Philharmonic Orchestra Performs Mahler | Sibelius | Beethoven in Honor of Lloyd Hull . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Stamford Tent & Event Services . . . . . . 81

EVENTS 5th Annual Greenwich Restaurant Week . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 A-list Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 The Alzheimer's Association Connecticut Chapter Seventh Annual Celebrating Hope 2019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Buccellati . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cover 4 Davidor Paris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

LANDSCAPING, NURSERY & FLORISTS Sam Bridge Nursery & Greenhouses, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Susan Cohen Landscape Architect . . . . 75

NONPROFIT The Elephant Sanctuary . . . . . . . . . . 126

PHOTOGRAPHY Bob Capazzo Photography . . . . . . . . 113

REAL ESTATE Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26, 27 Coldwell Banker Global Luxury . . . . . . . 91 Coldwell Banker Global Luxury/ Barbara Zaccagnini . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Coldwell Banker Global Luxury/ Tamar Lurie Group . . . . . . . . . . 20, 21 Compass/Robin Kencel Group . . . . . 12, 13 Compass/The Private Client Team . . . . 89 Compass/The Sarsen Team . . . . . . . . 6, 7 Compass/Yashmin Lloyds . . . . . . . . . 28 David Ogilvy & Associates . . . . . Cover 2, 1 Douglas Elliman Real Estate . . . . . . . . 49 Halstead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Houlihan Lawrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Hudson Yards New York . . . . . . . . . . 2, 3 Sotheby's International Realty . . . . . 10, 11 Sotheby's International Realty/ Joseph Barbieri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 William Raveis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 William Raveis/Janet Milligan . . . . . . . . 55

Alba's Ristorante . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Ocean House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Private Staff Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Sonora Restaurant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Tony's at the J House . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Watch Hill Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Weekapaug Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

REAL ESTATE/DESTINATION

HEALTH & BEAUTY

TRANSPORTATION

Breast Cancer Alliance . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Dental Oral Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Greenwich Medical Spa . . . . . . . . . . . 64 The Nathaniel Witherell . . . . . . . . . . . 69 NicholsMD of Greenwich . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Yale New Haven Health/ Greenwich Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

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Business Development Board of Palm Beach County . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 McLean Faulconer, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Rudy's Executive Transportation . . . . . . 61

SPORTS & FITNESS The Studio Greenwich . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

MISCELLANEOUS Big Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Greenwich Sentinel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Insperity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Westy Self Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

postscript photog raph by taryn angel os

RAINDROPS KEEP FALLIN’ ON MY HEAD W hy let inclement weather get in the way of a little siteseeing? Old Greenwich resident Taryn Angelos snapped this photo of an adorable little girl strolling in the rain without a care in the world at Lincoln Memorial. Taryn and her father frequented the memorial when she was young, and the image brought back fond memories. April showers might bring May flowers, but they also bring super-cute photo opps. G

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