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22 EDITOR’S LETTER 24 FROM THE FOUNDERS Of Helping (Sort Of) Around the House

GO BIG OR GO HOME This sprawling Greenwich estate is the pinnacle of design and décor and offers over-the-top amenities for true luxe living.

31 STATUS REPORT BUZZ There’s lots going on at Greenwich Library. We’ve got the scoop. SHOP Luxe décor finds at the new Roche Bobois GO Get Dad on the links, water or track with these great golf, fishing and racecar driving experiences.

HOME It’s never too late to bring beautiful blooms to your backyard.

DO Summer celebration? The new Cap, Cork & Cellar in Bruce Park is here to help. EAT Enjoying the sweet life at Patisserie Salzburg

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EXTREME TRUTH Documentary filmmaker Matt Heineman has built his career on bringing complex and emotional stories about the human condition into the spotlight. His latest film, A Private War, proves that his talent translates seamlessly into the world of feature film.

60 G-MOM Memorable gifts for grads and dads 67 VOWS Thomas–DeFina; Urban—Alley 53 PEOPLE & PLACES Planned Parenthood of Southern New England; Hospital For Special Surgery; Breast Cancer Alliance Junior Fashion Show; Breast Cancer Alliance Kids For a Cause Carnival Day; Greenwich Restaurant Week; Generation Impact; FCCF Fund For Women & Girls

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TOP OF THE LADDER From RN to CEO—after taking the helm at Stamford Health, Kathleen Silard shares how she plans to meet the challenges posed by the state of modern healthcare.

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JUNE 2019 / CRISTIN MARANDINO

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ot long ago, while having a conversation about work, I remarked: “I love my job.” “Why?” someone asked—a simple but interesting question. Up to that point, I hadn’t really deconstructed my reasons for happily getting out of bed for the past eleven years (to be clear, “morning person” has never been used to describe me). I explained that it’s the variety of what we do, the stories of the fascinating and inspirational people we get to tell, the beauty we highlight, the advice we offer and the hard work we celebrate.

This issue is perfectly illustrative of all those things.

The home that graces our cover is extraordinary. Every detail has been attended to (pocket door dog gates that match the design of the staircase banister) and every extravagance thought of (a three-story chandelier, vintage arcade and car lift). But it also proves that gracious and grand design and family-friendly living are not mutually exclusive. Here, those two conceits coexist beautifully. Take a tour of the stunning estate with writer Suzanne Gannon (“Go Big or Go Home,” page 78).

Now here’s where the variety comes in.

Brunswick grad Matt Heineman has devoted much of his career to exposing the seediest and darkest sides of humanity.

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documentarian made his feature film debut with A Private War, a film that details the life and assassination of famed foreign affairs correspondent Marie Colvin. It is a gritty and raw account that’s meant to open our eyes to the atrocities of war. And it does. Writer Tim Dumas sits down with Matt to explore the stories behind his stories (“Extreme Truth,” page 92).

Kathy Silard doesn’t necessarily want to talk about becoming the first woman in 123 years to run Stamford Health. It’s not that the Greenwich resident isn’t proud of her accomplishments. She’d just rather talk about her plans for the future, the state of healthcare today and what can be done about it. Beth Cooney Fitzpatrick introduces us to the inspiring and personable CEO in “Top of the Ladder,” page 102.

And as always, our Status Report section covers everything from town happenings (Greenwich Library’s getting a new look) to new spaces (Cap, Cork & Cellar, Roche Bobois) to unique travel ideas (make Dad’s day with these awesome excursions) and so much more.

As they say, variety is the spice of life— and sometimes that’s just what you need with your morning coffee.

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There are Mrs. Fix-Its, too.

And I’ve learned the hard way that I’m not one of them. Believe me, I’ve tried.

t’s June, June, June (as goes that song from Carousel)—the month we publish our annual design issue.

It’s also the month of Father’s Day. So putting decorating and fathers together, what do you get? Answer: a lot of guys who think they can fix anything around the house.

Unbelievable, right? Right. In truth, driving down the Post Road one day, I saw a sign on a plumber’s truck that read: “We repair what your husband fixed.”

I have one brother who actually can fix—or build—anything; and one brother who’d rather play golf and make enough money at work to be able to hire somebody to fix things. My Jack was somewhere in between—ever eager to give it a try.

So when he asked me how many doors I wanted on the cabinet under a bookshelf—two big ones or four small ones—never mind my answer. I ended up with three. And those little finger grips on sliding closet doors ended up on the right-hand side of both doors, so one opened nicely and the other couldn’t open at all. Then came the evening I heard strange sounds coming from the living room shortly before dinner guests were due to arrive and found that Jack had overturned the end tables by the couch and was sawing an inch or so off their legs. We’d inherited them from my mother, and I’d always complained they were too high for a person sitting on the couch to comfortably rest a drink on them.

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that we had to send them to a cabinetmaker later. In all fairness, however, I have to say that Jack was especially good at fixing toilets, a skill picked up out of necessity during his many years on sailboats.

Then there was the white picket fence covered with roses that ran along the path to the front door of our honeymoon house in Shaker Heights. One morning Jack got out there with a hose to spray the lawn with weed-killer and managed to finish off the rose bushes in the process. Every one of them dropped dead. So we had to engage a local nursery to replant our façade.

But there are Mrs. Fix-Its, too. And I’ve learned the hard way that I’m not one of them.

Believe me, I’ve tried.

For instance, there were the kitchen curtains in that little first house. For some odd reason, because my mother was much more Auntie Mame than Brady Bunch, she’d insisted on giving me a sewing machine and the loan of her Hungarian cleaning woman to teach me how to use it. As directed, I bought yards of white cotton material and, praying I wouldn’t run over my fingers, went to work. But the things came out way too short. I tried hanging red ball fringe along the bottom before deciding they looked so awful I couldn’t live with them. End of story: I bought new curtains made in China.

When we moved to Riverside, our house had a turquoise-blue front door, which I hated. So to surprise Jack when he got home from New York one day, I painted it bright

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founder’s letter fire-engine red. Except I hadn’t sanded or primed it; so the paint soon flaked off in patches and we had to hire a professional.

And one morning, demented from lack of sleep, I decided to sever the cord on the telephone in the master bedroom, because a high school swain of daughter Audrey kept calling her in the middle of the night.

Jack had left for work (or he would’ve stopped me), and I was so afraid of getting electrocuted that I asked my friend Barbara King to come over for moral support. She arrived to find me well grounded—dressed in his waders and the big orange rubber gloves he used for frostbiting— and brandishing a pair of hedge-clippers. I think the phone company was my next call.

But Elaine Leegstra has the best story. In the fall of ’73, she and Ruurd bought a house on a pond in Rye. It was a lovely property with a beautiful copper beech tree and the perfect side yard for a garden, where she planted tulip bulbs and all kinds of seedlings. To add to the richness of soil, Gus, the neighborhood garden guru, even had a load of manure delivered from Kenilworth Stables where his daughter rode.

But after her tulips bloomed in the spring, they soon disappeared.

Her small plants were uprooted. She had an unwelcome visitor that turned out to be a woodchuck who lived in a hole under the copper beech.

Now Elaine went to war. She tried to flood the hole with a garden hose. No luck. Put stones over the opening. Still no luck. Then, like the Grinch, she had a “wonderful awful idea.” She’d smoke it out. She got a can of gas—which had come with the monster lawn mower her father had given them—out of the garage; poured some gas in the hole and waited for a head to appear. It didn’t. So she struck a match, threw it in and BOOM!! She was suddenly without eyebrows, sporting threequarter-inch bangs and feeling lucky to be alive.

The Leegstras now live in Greenwich and still have woodchucks on their property. “I’ve learned from a trapper who I call that these animals have two entrances to their dens,” says Elaine, adding, “I have a garden in an eight-foot horse trough and more sense than patience.”

But there are some problems that can push even the most skilled Mrs. or Mr. Fix-It over the brink. Robby Gray, husband of our Social Editor Ali Nichols Gray, is a professional builder. He’s a house doctor supreme.

But last winter, when their three-year-old son, Henry, dropped a toy in the track of the sliding glass doors that went to the terrace, it got stuck there. It was 15 degrees outside, and the doors wouldn’t close. So Robby had to take a door off its hinges, which he did expertly while swearing up a storm. Meanwhile, Henry went down for his nap muttering, “Daddy’s a bad boy!”

Well, Henry, your day will come. Will you take after your father who can fix anything? Or be like Bobbi Eggers’s husband, Steve, who has always told her: “I don’t fix anything I can’t fix with a hammer”? Or be like my brother Mike who’d rather bring in the pros and go play golf?

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As a focal point, Glengate designed a multipurpose pavilion at the end of the existing pool area. It provides both shade and amenities and draws on the architectural features of the home. The pavilion is a place for outdoor grilling, entertaining and family dinners, featuring an outdoor kitchen and fun outdoor bar. A long dining table is everyone’s

favorite gathering spot, and a nearby seating grouping allows a cozy shady spot for reading, relaxation, and a respite from the sun.

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BEYOND BOOKS NEW RENOVATIONS AT GREENWICH LIBRARY ENSURE

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fter years of planning and months of fundraising, construction on the library is set to begin next month. It marks the first major renovation of the West Putnam Avenue facility since the Peterson Business Wing debuted in 1999.

“There isn’t a library or cultural institution not thinking about reimagining their space,” library director Barbara Ormerod-Glynn says. “It’s something we need to do to stay current.” Though no space is being added to the 100,000-square-foot facility, Rob Marks, president of the library board of trustees, notes every floor will be affected in some way.

“We did it with a lot of patron feedback and town support,” he says. “There’s something for everyone.”

No need to worry, though; library services will continue through the estimated sixteenmonth, $17-million renovation, something Barbara calls nonnegotiable: “If you call yourself the cultural hub of the community, and then close down, the message is a bit contradictory.”

We toured the space to get an idea of the planned updates. Here, a floor-by-floor look at some of the major changes.

A new stairway will, for the first time, directly connect the library’s basement and auditorium with the rest of the building. right inset: What the outside of the new basement entranceway will look like when completed.

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above: Rendering of the new study room for teens below: The periodicals room will get a major face-lift, with less shelving and more pleasing aesthetics.

An innovation lab will house the library’s now-scattered collection of 3-D printers, laser cutters and other high-tech equipment. As parents know, teens are early adopters of novel technology, so the library strategy is for kids to drive tech adoption and be on hand to assist other patrons.

2 PERIODICALS ROOM Other parts of the main floor will get reconfigured, too. The Periodicals Room loses some shelves and gains more sunlight to become an all-purpose Reading Room. Four brand-new conference rooms (designated for students, nonprofits, community groups, etc.) will line the far wall facing the parking lot; booths set along the opposite

wall permit the use of cell phones and Skype indoors.

3 TEEN ROOM Feedback for a teen room was gathered by a student organization, the Greenwich Library Advisory Club. “Most just want more space,” notes Emil Perdue, a Greenwich High junior who is the club’s president.

“This gives us a room for collaboration and independent study. Life can be pretty stressful around exams. The library is a good place to de-stress.” Perdue and library leaders say highschool students hit the library heavily prepping for midterms and final exams; a room of their own will accommodate this and offer study space for other times, too.

WHAT ELSE: Music gets less shelf space, a casualty of digital streaming services; so do magazines.

THIRD FLOOR CHILDREN’S SECTION The childern’s section will be getting a major upgrade. Among the improvements are new furnishings, lower shelving, which will improve sightlines and put books in easier reach, and expansion of the popular Constellation Room, now often too crowded as young ones gather for story time or a show (its distinctive ceiling will remain).

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The existing Cole Auditorium, built in 1969, will be upgraded and renamed. No more jostling with strangers when nature calls. For the first time, seating aisles will allow easier audience flow. The stage, ceiling, walls and floor will also be upgraded.

The library café, buried beneath the old Periodicals Room since the 1960s, will become the centerpiece of a new two-story glass-enclosed atrium space fronting a wider, friendlier Baxter Courtyard.

This will serve as the library’s second main entrance, and will connect the auditorium to the rest of the library. An elevator to the main floor will make stroller and ADA-access easier, as well.

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SMALLER AUDITORIUM Other changes include a second, smaller auditorium for author lectures and children’s events that merit a cozier venue. And the new Center for Education & Culture will include a West Lounge where patrons can relax and plug in and a “learning lab” for careerrelated development sessions.

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WHAT ELSE: Expect some renovation headaches, like parking issues and noise from removing interior walls. Most of the heaviest disruption is planned for summer, when library use is lighter. To take a virtual tour of the new library—and we suggest you do, it’s very cool— visit greenwichlibrary .org/reimagine.

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Designer Luigi Gorgoni created a table that can extend to a larger size with a onehanded pull. No leaves to store or heavy pieces to move. The oak-topped table’s sculptural metal base is attractive but unobtrusive for comfortable leg room.

This plush, modern tufted sofa with deep seats transforms into something more.

“This is every man’s favorite sofa,” Lori says. Push the button on the side and each seat on the Sacha Lakic-designed sofa converts into a full lounge. Put your feet up and your head back as much as you like. There’s even a built-in USB port.

A contemporary interpretation of the conversation chair, this piece designed by Cécile Pujol peaks with a split back that looks like butterfly wings. The chair was a winner of the company’s annual design awards, which encourages young designers to dream up new ideas and bring them to market.

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rench furnishings company Roche Bobois has moved into the design district on East Putnam Avenue, and its new “Art de Vivre” showroom is a must-visit. People browsing home stores in the area will be drawn in by the chic modern furniture and the colorful designs unlike anything else you’ll see in Greenwich (check out the massive Mah Jong sectional in Missoni prints). But those in the market for high-end furniture may wind up buying due to the clever designs, versatility and comfort of the pieces.

All of the furnishings from this familyowned company are made in Europe, primarily in workshops in France and Italy.

“Everything is completely customizable; pieces can be changed in a way that’s to the customer’s liking, which is a lot of fun,” says Lori DeRocco, showroom manager, who notes that this has made the brand popular with both designers and architects.

“We offer many fabrics, leathers and materials to create the pieces they want for their clients, as well as the possibility to customize with their own materials.”

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Be the Ball Unlike baseball or basketball, golf is not a sport that gets picked up on the playground or in PE class. Dad may have always had a desire to learn, but without a private club membership and an expensive set of clubs, it can feel like a challenge to get started.

A little-known secret is that anyone can book a private golf lesson at any club in town, yes, even the really, really fancy ones. The pros interviewed for this article repeated “We don’t advertise this” so frequently, that it felt important to put that in print. Keep the secret, okay?

What to Know • Call the pro shop and ask to book a lesson.

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• Sneakers are fine, no need for golf shoes.

• Be mindful of the dress code; it’s always on the website. From an anonymous pro: “Never, ever wear cargo shorts, and just because Tiger Woods wears collarless shirts doesn’t mean you can.”

• Expect to pay $150 to $200 per hour depending on the pro.

• To find a list of pros, visit pga.com and click on “find an instructor” or visit the club online.

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go GET-OUT-OFTOWN OPTION We found the perfect lodge for the beginner or expert fisherman.

Three Rivers Ranch in Idaho was the first Orvisendorsed fly-fishing lodge and can take you fishing in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. Stay in a cozy cabin on-property or book a tent at the glamping site on the South Fork River.

What to Know The lodge is in Warm Falls, Idaho; fly into Idaho Falls or Jackson Hole airports.

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You can fish from a boat, the bank or even wade into the river depending on how adventurous Dad is.

The Ranch at Laguna Beach is an ideal golf getaway for dads and kids.

The course itself is only nine holes. And with the motto “You don’t need to be good, you just need to have fun,” the intimidation factor is zero.

No experience is necessary (one-on-one casting lessons are available the day you arrive).

You can fish inside Yellowstone Park on the Cascade Corner (a beautiful and remote area of the park).

The resort sits in a canyon just across the highway from the Pacific Ocean in Laguna Beach.

The dress code is relaxed (not cutoffs-relaxed, but denim is ok).

You can book Dad a private or group lesson.

Rent everything on-site including rolling golf bags or golf carts.

A Links Master roams the course offering a combination of golf advice, sunscreen and snacks.

All the guest rooms are spacious and have views and outdoor patios. For something extra special, book the two-bedroom treehouse.

Rates start at $340 for a Creekside Studio Suite (bed and sleeper sofa); tee times are $40 per person; rental clubs are $45; and a push cart is $7. theranchlb.com

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It seems as though all sappy stories about fishing with Dad are written by men. Don’t count out the girls on this gift; we not only love to fish, we’re often better than the men.

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• It’s striped bass season and you are allowed to keep one per day.

I discovered the perfect fishing charter at the Sportsman’s Den in Cos Cob. My boys tried, but failed, to outfish me.

• Bottom fish like porgies and fluke are easy to catch and tasty to eat, no limit on the number.

What to Know

• Bring your own snacks and drinks.

• There are huge bass right in our watery backyard.

• There is a bathroom on board the boat.

• Captain Billy Ingraham remarks that many people don’t realize how good the fishing is so close to home.

• Expect to pay $550 for a four-hour charter that can accommodate up to six people. Gift certificates are available.

• The Den provides everything you need from tackle, bait and license, to fishing instruction and fish cleaning.

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It’s all catch and release, but staff will make sure you and Dad get your Instagram photo.

The fourth-generation family lodge has a 90 percent guest-return rate and it books out pretty far in advance.

Expect to pay about $7,300 for a two-person fishing package that includes four nights and three days of fishing, all gear and all meals.

Glamping can be added on or booked separately.

For lodge guests it’s an extra $300 per night, per person. As a stand-alone booking, it’s $2,300 for two days of fishing and one night of glamping for two people.

Important to note there is a full bar at the fire pit. threeriversranch.com

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Days of Thunder Indulge Dad’s need for speed on a race-car track. Mario Andretti once said, “With tennis, you can go pick up a racket, take a lesson and understand how much talent and skill it takes to be as good as the top pros. Same with golf: pick up a club. But not many can go out and get in a race car and experience a drive at over 200 miles an hour.” Until now, that is. Here are our recommendations for living out your Ricky Bobby fantasies, because remember “If you’re not first, you’re last.”

CLOSE TO HOME The closest raceways to Greenwich are Lime Rock Park and the Monticello Motor Club. They are almost equal driving distance, about one hour and forty-five minutes away. It seems everyone’s heard of the Skip Barber Racing School at Lime Rock, but far fewer have heard of the Monticello Motor Club. The MMC is a country club, but for car enthusiasts.

Nonmembers can get racing with the club’s Taste of the Track program.

And, surprisingly, kids as young as thirteen can drive.

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What to Know • There are three choices for what to drive–your own car, a BMW 240i or a high-

performance BMW. The price increases accordingly.

• You’ll receive one-onone private coaching for the entire day.

• Kids six and older can race on the karting track and receive private instruction.

• The day ends at 4 p.m. and guests are welcome to tour the 13,000-squarefoot auto museum.

• The track allows kids under sixteen to drive race cars; their driving skills and eligibility to take to the track are evaluated on a case by case basis.

• If you don’t want to drive home, stay at the newly opened Kartrite Resort & Waterpark just around the corner.

Take Dad to Vegas or L.A. and spend a day at Exotics Racing. It boasts the world’s largest fleet of supercars available to the public. You’ll have your choice of Lamborghini, Ferrari, Porsche models and more. They even have the Aston Martin Vantage FT and DB11. For the race car fanatic, time behind the wheel of an EXR LVO2 race car is sold in thirty-minute increments. How many laps you complete is entirely up to you and your need for speed, starting price, $990.

The Vegas location is just fifteen minutes from the strip, and the L.A. track is forty-five minutes from downtown.

What to Know You can choose to drive one car or book a multicar package.

• Expect to pay $1,700 to bring your own car onto the track, $1,995 for the 240i and $2,995 for the highperformance cars.

The track uses the same TecProTM safety barriers that are found in professional racing at the highest level, including Formula One.

• A non-driving guest is an extra $150 and a guest who races in the kart is an extra $300.

Drivers experience top speeds of over 110 mph on the main straight. Yes, an instructor is with you.

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There are also ride-along options: Guests can ride in any supercar with a professional driver or pack a family of three into a Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat for what is billed as a “tiresmoking, sideways-drifting, thrill ride.”

• The day starts at 8:30 a.m. with chalk talk (a quick informational session on racing and safety pointers), and then you and Dad will drive race cars, dine with club members and try out karting. If you’re feeling adventurous, take one of the club’s high performance off-road vehicles for a rough and tumble drive in the Catskills on the club’s 300-acre off-road course.

Drivers must be eighteen and have a valid driver’s license.

Kids as young as eleven can enjoy the Dodge Hellcat drifting ride-along with a pro who can reach speeds of over 200 mph.

Expect to pay $295 for five laps to $2,600 for fifty laps in ten different supercars. exoticsracing.com

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POTS OF GOLD A PROCRASTINATOR’S GUIDE TO BEAUTIFUL BLOOMS

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f landscaping was on your to-do list but planting didn’t happen before summer, you can still enjoy a beautiful garden this season. Container gardening can fill in the gaps with potted plants to define and decorate your outdoor living space. Need to spruce up before a big party? Want plantings that will last until fall? We talked to JEN PLASKY, container garden and seasonal décor specialist at SAM BRIDGE NURSERY & GREENHOUSES, who has a degree in horticulture and more than twenty years of experience in the field. sunpatiens, dragon wing begonia, lantana, salvia, creeping jenny (Lysimachia), coleus, scaevola, canna, red banana.”

What to know before picking plants?

“It’s important to assess the amount of light and water the planter will receive. If the planter sits in full sun and isn’t connected to an irrigation system, plants that tolerate drought and recover from wilting need to be selected. If the planter’s located in shade, low-light plants and adequate drainage are necessary. The material the planter is constructed from and size of the planter are key factors in

Any plants you love to pair together?

“For spring, yellow daffodils with purple pansies, yellow violas and purple alyssum. For summer, orange canna with orange/ yellow lantana, orange coleus and creeping jenny. In the fall, red chrysanthemums with red coral bells and ornamental peppers, and for winter variegated ivy, white kale and wintergreen.”

considering plant watering needs.

Larger planters retain water longer as there are more layers of potting soil. Planters made from plastic and fiberglass also retain water longer, while clay-based planters dry out faster because they’re porous.”

What are some of your go-to plants to spruce up outdoorliving space before a party?

“Plant choices depend on the season, greenhouse crop availability and customer color

Any beautiful, easy-care plants that will last until fall?

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How often do you need to water/fertilize?

“Insert a finger into the soil about an inch in a few locations in the planter to test for dampness. If the potting soil is dark in color and feels damp, the planter does not need water. If the potting soil appears lighter in color and feels drier, water is needed. Avoid letting a plant wilt, as the stress of wilting weakens the plant. Water until you see it begin to drain from the bottom of the planter, as this ensures the water has reached roots at the base and prevents build-up of fertilizer salts.

Containers should always have a drainage hole at the base of the planter. To prevent potting soil from draining out of the pot, place some bark nuggets in the planter at the base before adding potting soil.

Slow release fertilizers such as Osmocote or one of the Espoma organic fertilizers (Plant Tone, Flower Tone) work well, feeding the plant for about a month before they need to be reapplied (Osmocote lasts a little longer than this).”

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preference. I advise customers to select one to three colors of plant materials for the greatest impact. Using more than three hues in a design diminishes the results, as the eye is distracted by differences and focuses better on similarities. Popular color palettes for our clients include all white, blue and white, purple and white, pink and yellow. If a client requests something ‘colorful,’ I tend to use warm colors—red, pink, orange or yellow—as brighter colors have higher impact than cool colors.”

Any options that can be transplanted into the ground in the fall?

“Shrubs such as boxwoods or hollies are frequently used in planters and then transplanted prior to winter. In the spring, forsythia and azaleas are beautiful options to add height in planters.

Perennials such as coral bells (Heuchera) and grasses are also great in planters.”

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anything from a simple dinner at home to a picnic to a cocktail party.

CEO Robert Petz, who founded Cap, Cork & Cellar with backing from 16 Forty Ventures, acts as a concierge sommelier for his customers, guiding

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VINO VALUES A few of Rob’s picks for amazing wines that are also terrific deals.

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DOMAINE CHEVEAU MACON-FUISSÉ WHITE BURGUNDY, CHARDONNAY, 2016 From the Mâconnais in Southern Burgundy, low oak, small batch, aged in cement, $18.99, it tastes like much more expensive white Burgundy.

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Boisterous cherry fruit with bits of smoke, lilac and mineral notes.

Very good texture without being heavy, $24.99. This wine is a steal, as most wines from the YamhillCarlton district sell for $35 and up.

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BOHIGAS An organic sparkling wine, a cava from Spain that’s made in the methode champagnois, $15, is very popular. Try it with St. George Raspberry Liqueur for a lovely new take on the Kir Royale.

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them to exceptional wines that are also well priced. Working closely with neighboring shops Greenwich Prime Meats and Bon Ton Fish Market, he caters to people’s culinary needs too.

“Come with nothing and leave with everything from wine to sandwiches and fish spread,” says Rob, who refers to the trio of stores as the Bruce Park Purveyors. With the free delivery service, you can also task Rob and his team to bring you a meal and a cooler filled with ice and your beverages of choice, whether you’re at a concert in the park or planning a day on the water.

“Call us and say, ‘Hey, we just rolled into l’escale with our boat, can you bring us down these ten things?’”

The shop sells a range of artisanal cheeses and crackers and features a craft-beer walk-in so customers can mix and match their own custom four-packs.

In addition to distinctive hostess gifts and accessories (cutting boards, glasses, tea towels, etc.), Cap, Cork & Cellar carries treats like a boozy ice cream called Tipsy Scoop with flavors such as Vanilla Bean Bourbon, Strawberry Rhubarb bourbon as well as prosecco pops.

Planning a party? Rob says he specializes in “any advice around degustation: food, environment, music, setup, staffing. We can help create an experience.”

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SWEET TALK THE FAMED PATISSERIE SALZBURG, WITH ITS MENU OF SWEET TREATS, NOW WELCOMING PATRONS TO ITS NEW HARBOR POINT LOCATION

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The thirty-seat café is the sibling to Patisserie Salzburg of Rye, which Parviz Shakiban opened twenty-five years ago, inspired by the creations of Austrian pastry chef and co-owner Manfred Hirz. In Harbor Point, the contemporary glass-fronted shop is

f ever a tradition needed to be imported to our shores, it’s kaffee und kuchen. In Salzburg, Austria, that’s coffee and cake at four in the afternoon. We, too, can indulge in this fortifying afternoon repast: Patisserie Salzburg has opened in the Harbor Point section of Stamford. Here, you can sip a cup of Illy coffee while sampling sumptuous European tortes and

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(not) just desserts Patisserie Salzburg also offers bites for those with savory tastes HOT OR COLD, TAKEOUT OR EAT-IN Patisserie Salzburg has a changing array of prepared foods for morning through night, which includes daily quiches, salads and roasted vegetables, among other treats.

A HEALTHY CHOICE A salad of glistening baby spinach leaves looked fresh and inviting, with well-cooked hard-boiled eggs displaying proper technique (no gray sulfur ring, here!), a pleasure to see and eat.

OUR FAVORITE SALAD The hearts of palm salad with green beans, avocado, radicchio and tomato was fresh, lively, and had just the right amount of vinaigrette. It had nothing to do with Salzburg, but we loved it anyway.

SEAFOOD DELIGHT Flatbread covered with sliced smoked salmon and scattered with briny capers is impossible to resist, especially if it has been freshly made and paired with smooth cream cheese.

PAIR IT WITH SOMETHING SWEET Sandwiches, on baguettes bound with wax paper and string, look cute and appetizing.

Sure, you could get similar concoctions elsewhere, but why bother? Grab your sandwich with something sweet, head out to the boardwalk and enjoy a picnic lunch while taking in the fresh sea air.

bright and clean inside, with pink walls and warm-white shelves rising behind the glass display case. Customers line up along the case, some peering over shoulders to ogle the bounty of tortes, tarts, strudel, croissants, Danish, muffins, éclairs, Napoleon and cookies within; a smaller display is devoted to savory dishes.

The patisserie also does a strong take-out and catering business.

American work schedules may not match European dreams, yet anyone can still indulge in a weekend patisserie brunch. So, on a recent Sunday, I gathered some friends and ordered up slices of tortes and tarts, and quickly learned that the patisserie lives up to its reputation with well-crafted, traditional European treats. All were distinguished by delicate textures, deep flavors and spot-on sweetness. There’s a sense of discovery in eating these cakes and identifying and savoring the components.

There’s so much for chocolate lovers here.

The chocolate mocha torte, topped with cocoa-dusted chocolate, reveals dark chocolate cake, fluffy mocha mousse, raspberry jam and finely chopped hazelnuts. It was one of our favorites. The Black Forest has four layers of rich, dark-cocoa cake filled with cherries and whipped cream. The Seven Layer cake alternates super-thin rounds of cake with chocolate mousse and whipped cream, all coated in shiny dark chocolate. During our sweet brunch, though, almond flavoring in the Seven Layer came across a tad strongly.

Fresh and preserved fruit are featured in many desserts. The raspberry mousse torte, with moist vanilla cake, airy raspberry mousse and slim raspberry gelée has a dreamy quality.

It also comes in strawberry and passion fruit.

Add to that displays of fruit tarts that glisten with fresh mango, kiwi, strawberry and blackberry over a buoyant vanilla custard. The pastry crust is brushed with chocolate to keep it crisp and add a kick. It’s a lovely little dessert that feels light, and even a bit healthy.

The lemon tart was the surprise sensation of the afternoon. The flavor was wake-up bright and fresh, with sweet-tart lemon carried in a smooth, silky texture supported by tender, short crust. Dollops of meringue clouds

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browned under a flame added an extra sweet, wispy texture. This tart drew everyone aback for seconds. Because of its palate-cleansing qualities, I’d always include it in a tortes-andtarts party.

Don’t pass up the apple strudel, which was classically European: a bounty of soft apples, tangy and fresh, with a natural sweetness, wrapped in paper-thin, crisp and crackly layers of strudel.

Speaking of layers of thin, buttery pastry, Patisserie Salzburg’s croissants are American large, soft and luxurious, as are the popular almond croissants and pains au chocolat.

With everyone’s sweet tooth sated, we considered passing on the European cookies.

We’re glad we didn’t. Among the selection are Sarah Bernhardts, dark chocolate coating a mini dome of buttercream sitting on crunchy almond meringue. The dainty macarons in shades of pale pink and pistachio are not only light with a just-right amount of filling, but they are also adorable. Here’s a tip: Order a mix of these along with a combination of lace cookies, almond sticks and coconut macaroons, and savor them for days.

Patisserie Salzburg serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. Based on the quality of the baked goods and prepared savory foods, we look forward to returning for the dinner menu, which is based on European and Mediterranean favorites from the Rye location.

And now that the warmer months are here, we plan on doing it al fresco.

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GETTING PERSONAL GIFT IDEAS WITH A LASTING TOUCH

3. LIFEBELT

Greenwich is a big town for needlepoint, but you don’t have to be crafty to create something unique for your loved one. Looking for something totally one-of-akind? Smathers & Branson (smathersand branson.com/ custom/design-form /custom-life-belt) can create a LifeBelt featuring up to fourteen symbols (monograms, college, fraternity or team logos, etc.) that hold significance to your loved one. The process is simple.

Choose from a variety of licensed logos and motifs or submit your own. When my son turned twenty-one, I had a monogrammed belt created with everything from our white golden retriever, Lucy, to his favorite team mascot and his company logo. The belt tells the story of his life so far.

Orders require a $50 deposit. Once you select motifs and/or upload JPEG or PDF files of items you want on the belt, a design specialist will contact you within two weeks with a mock-up design. You

1. PUTTING DOWN ROOTS

The Greenwich Tree Conservancy’s Commemorative Tree Program provides donation options from $250 to $1,000 with trees such as Red Maple, White Oak, Japanese Lilac, Tupelo, Paper Bark Maple, Red Oak, Katsura, Flowering Dogwood and Hybrid Elm. Specimen trees start at $2,000 and for an additional fee can be planted in a premium pre-approved location.

Planting locations for all trees are determined by the town tree warden and based upon town needs and appropriate growing conditions. greenwichtree conservancy.org/ commemorative-treeprogram/

2. TAKE A SEAT

If your special someone has a favorite town park, consider a bench donation. The Parks and Recreation Department works to maintain and replace benches across town. Presently no benches are available at Greenwich Point and the waitlist for that park is currently full, but you can be added to a wait list to donate benches at Byram Park, Bruce Park, Montgomery Pinetum or one of the other ten town parks and spaces.

The benches are built to last, and some at the Pinetum are going on a half a century.

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broken to be repaired, the plaque is removed and kept at Town Hall for the family to retrieve.

The Memorial and Commemorative Bench program features teak benches with brass two and threequarters-by-ten-inch plaques that can be customized with four lines at twentyfive characters per line for $2,500.

Driftwood color poly lumber wood-grain Adirondack chairs are a new addition to the program and are available at Byram Shore Park for $900 per chair. To request a form, email the Parks and Recreation Department with the

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can make changes, rearrange the order of items or cut and add new items. Custom orders take about eight to ten weeks.

Expedited production is available. Belts range from $275 to $395. All licensed logos (e.g., college and pro-sports’ team logos) are an additional $20 per logo. If a motif or image is not in the Smathers & Branson catalog (e.g., unique family crest), one can be created for an additional $25 per image. Generic icons like an American flag, sailboat, state outline are included in the base price. For Father’s Day, think about including anniversary dates, children’s monograms, the shape of his native state or an icon representing a hobby or sport.

Want to shop locally? Stop at The Village Ewe in Old Greenwich. In addition to a selection of ready to stitch needlepoint belts featuring themes like poker, golf course landscapes and even whiskey brands, the staff can help you create a belt to needlepoint yourself.

Not the DIY type?

They’ll hire someone to stitch it for you (for an additional $200). If you can’t

find exactly what you want, The Village Ewe works with artists who custom paint a belt canvas to reflect your design. Belts run approximately $300 including finishing; custom-painted belts are closer to $400.

Custom orders take about eight weeks. thevillageewe.com

4. BRICK BY BRICK

Audubon Greenwich welcomes you to be part of sustaining this local community treasure as it celebrates its seventy-fifth anniversary. Take advantage of this opportunity to leave a lasting tribute by buying an engraved brick or overlook stone on the beautiful Pathway to the Future—a path that leads from the patio of the Kimberlin Center to the overlook above the Nature Play Trail.

Donating a brick provides funding to restore habitats that birds and wildlife depend upon.

Sponsor a twentyfour-by-twenty-fourinch overlook stone for $10,000, twelveby-twelve-inch brick for $2,500, and fourby-eight-inch brick for $500, each with text of up to eight lines with twenty-five characters per line. greenwich.audubon. org/bricks G

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ore than twenty students from area schools recently walked the runway to benefit the Breast Cancer Alliance. Richards provided the on-trend outfits, and schools including Fairfield Prep, Iona Prep, Sacred Heart Greenwich, Greenwich High School, Brunswick School and Stanwich School provided the teen models. Funds raised by the annual junior fashion show, sponsored by Carnegie Prep, will support breast health services for underserved women throughout Connecticut. breastcanceralliance.org

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Greenwich Has Great Taste

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.

Send flowers.

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.

Say please, thank you, and you’re welcome.

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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For Manfredi Jewels in Greenwich, the focus is squarely on the client where the shopper can enjoy a combination of unparalleled selection coupled with uncompromising quality, in a boutique setting. Owner Roberto Chiappelloni reflects on what it takes to create a luxury experience as he and his staff cater to the demands of today’s brandsavvy consum­ers of watches and fine jewelry.

“What began in the 80’s as a small shop with just a few brands, grew over the next thirty years into a beautiful store with over thirty brands of magnificent watches, as well as an amazing selection of brand name and custom-created

jewelry. Our watches and jewelry are show­cased in our elegant, contemporary store. Clients are invited to sit and enjoy an espresso, prosecco, or sparkling water while savoring the shopping experience and enjoying the intimacy of being able to touch, feel and wear the pieces that inspire them — clearly an experience that is unattainable on the Internet. Comfort and luxury are key elements awaiting everyone who enters our Greenwich or New Canaan locations.”

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Dr. Scott Kesselman and the friendly staff at Riverside Orthodontics enjoy helping patients obtain the smile of their dreams in his newly renovated office. The team takes pride in using the latest technology available to make orthodontic treatment for kids, teens and adults as safe and convenient as possible.

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Greenwich Braces has been creating beautiful smiles for over twenty years, providing the highest quality of orthodontic care in a friendly environment. “We treat each patient as if they were our own child, sibling or parent.” The Greenwich Braces team truly enjoys each patient and looks forward to their visits.

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Offering everything from high-end, one-of-a-kind jewels and fine timepieces to giftware and tabletop items, Shreve, Crump & Low at 125 Greenwich Avenue is the destination.

The third generation of the Walker Family brings a forward-thinking mindset focused on the experience of luxury shopping. “It's a one-stop shop, where you can find a statement piece or discover contemporary fine jewelry brands,” says Bradford. Shreve, Crump & Low is America's most established and prestigious purveyor of fine gifts since 1796, yet this 223-year-old blue-blooded institution brings a youthful vitality and new era of style.

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Cosmetic Dental of Greenwich LLC Dr. James H. Doundoulakis has been creating “The Perfect Smile” for over thirty years, first with his office in Manhattan’s Upper East side and now in Greenwich since 2014. His book of the same name got him noticed and he was chosen to have one of his “extreme make-overs” featured on ABC-TV’s The View, starring Barbara Walters. When he is not in Greenwich, Dr. D instructs future dentists as Director of Prosthodontics and Implantology at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in NYC. A Harvard-trained prosthodontist, Dr. Doundoulakis is a specialist in the restoration and beautification of

teeth. He restores patient smiles and function utilizing state-of-the-art esthetic and dental implant techniques that improve chewing, speaking and smiling. The entire team at Cosmetic Dental of Greenwich LLC is dedicated to providing you with personalized, quality dental care.

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Nube Siguenza, Executive Chef Gustave Christman III, Vicente Siguenza and Kleber Siguenza Long before they were American citizens, siblings Kleber, Nube and Vicente Siguenza developed Harvest Wine Bar, a New American Restaurant with a “farm to fork” concept and generous wine selection. Influenced by their Ecuadorian roots, they have always used the freshest ingredients, including fish that are wild caught, or sustainably harvested meat raised on the green hills of upstate New York and wines produced naturally with biodynamic farming practices. Their menus are inspired by local farms that provide products,

such as Sweet Tree Farm in upstate New York for their Signature Harvest Burger and Short Rib Mac and Cheese.

Their passion for fresh food, fine wine and hospitality has facilitated this family-oriented restaurant to become the American Dream. They tailor custom cuisine, guest by guest and season to season.

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GO BIG or GO HOME Or, if you’re really lucky, you don ’ t have to choose

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This Conyers Farm home makes an impression with two hefty wings that mirror one another.

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Billions’ Bobby Axelrod were more country boy than urban animal, he might once again shift his acquisitive gaze toward the gilded shores of Fairfield County and land on this sprawling manor in Greenwich. Here, on these twelve acres in Conyers Farm, Axe would enjoy not only the spartan, high-voltage gleam to which he is accustomed, but also the vast, temperature-controlled storage for his Bentleys and Bugattis.

Dave LaPierre of Robert A. Cardello Architects of Greenwich and South Norwalk, the lead architect on what would become this 14,000-squarefoot summer residence for a family of four plus staff and hounds, had to channel the “You get one life, so do it all” mentality. The feat was not one that just any architecture shop could pull off. In fact, LaPierre’s client, an owner of many homes that have required the services of an architect, says she interviewed twelve firms before hiring LaPierre and the team from Cardello in 2015. She added the firm to her list after seeing its work in an interiors magazine.

“He really did exactly what I wanted,” she says over the phone from Jupiter Island where Cardello Architects is now renovating her primary residence, which was destroyed in a fire the family was lucky to escape.

“It’s so important to have an architect that listens to you.” (Post-renovation, the Jupiter house will be even bigger than this one.)

Soon after the contract was signed, LaPierre and his team found themselves drafting schemes for the renovation of the existing Adirondack-style house that stood on the lot the client had bought. The objective was to conform to the Shingle-style vernacular of the area, replete with varied rooflines and assorted pop-outs. But the lack of uniformity did not appeal to his new clients. “They like symmetry,” says LaPierre of his clients’ organizing principle. “And they didn’t want any clipped ceilings.” »

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This seductive staircase is made for dramatic entrances. The custom design—a rep pattern of scrolling oval loops rendered in wrought iron—gets its bling effect from polished nickel knuckles around the balusters and a handrail buffed to a lustrous piano finish.

Coffered ceilings, stepped crown moldings, Doric columns, and arched doorways and windows with keystones are among the architectural details that lend this home gravitas and proportion.

Of his clients’ organizing principle, David LaPierre of Robert A. Cardello says, “they like symmetry.”

above: All shimmer and shine, this formal dining space is fit for a state dinner of ten. opposite page: The open plan for the kitchen and den was not at first embraced by the owners, who decided instead to build a wall between the two spaces. But after the wall was erected, they recognized the benefits of being able to move freely between the spaces. Gracefully dressed windows admit sunshine and provide a view to the pool.

Several sketches and elevations later, he and his team worked their way into a solution that won approval: a majestic Georgian disguised as a limestone château. On the ground level, the exterior is clad in a composite concrete scored to replicate stone blocks; upstairs, fiber cement siding mimics clapboard.

Shaped like a squared-off U that embraces a central parking court, the house features two substantial wings. The glass entry, which bows like a birdcage, is the midpoint where the house could fold into two identical halves.

Inside, LaPierre designed a catalog of finely crafted details. A sinuous, wrought-iron staircase climbs to another realm, with a pattern of scrolling oval loops and balusters bejeweled with polished-nickel knuckles. Its mahogany handrail features a lustrous piano finish.

Gracefully arched windows are matched by arched doorways that establish scale and proportion along a first-floor axis where each opening is marked with a double-step keystone that solidifies its elegance. The corridor serves as the central thoroughfare that connects two destinations

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above: A portion of the owners’ wine collection is displayed as a decorative element in the media room where dark wood paneling and black-out shades optimize movie viewing.

“She’s incredibly hands-on,” says interior designer Bruce Bierman of his client for whom he’s designed several homes. “she could be a project manager.” that are essential, as the client sees it, to a family that enjoys impromptu gatherings with friends of many generations.

At one end is the in-home movie theater featuring a soft and ample sectional, automated black-out shades, and a concealed projector and screen, the size of which rivals a Super Bowl Jumbotron. A shiny Macassar ebony coffee table, wall-mounted wine rack with capacity for about a hundred bottles and millwork, including the shiny mahogany crown moldings and beams in a spectacular coffered ceiling, make this anything but your runof-the-mill in-home theater.

In the opposite wing of the house, there is an open chef ’s kitchen with a massive marble-topped island beneath a chandelier inspired by a design one could likely trace to Murano in the mid-1900s. Adjacent to the kitchen is a sunny relaxation corner (with seating for ten or more); it features floor-to-ceiling draperies that showcase transom windows with decorative grillwork that riffs on the theme set by the staircase out front.

In keeping with their penchant for compartmentalized spaces, the client had altered LaPierre’s original scheme for an open-plan kitchen-den space by requesting that a wall be built between them. But once the wall was up, they realized they’d not only interrupted the flow but also blocked the view to the pool house in the distance. So LaPierre took it down, letting more light into the space.

His and hers garages accommodate a total of eleven cars and are equipped with a car lift that can relocate cars to the basement-level. On this level you’ll also find a Vegas-worthy gaming hall equipped with a simulated driving range, poker table, ornate billiards table, commercialgreenwichmag.com

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scale marble bar and a gallery of vintage arcade games (Wizard of Wor and Pac-Man—check, check).

Another not-insignificant programmatic innovation built into the architecture? Knee-high dog gates that slide into the wall like a pocket door and feature tiny spindles with nickel knuckles to match the front staircase.

Bruce Bierman of New York-based Bruce Bierman Design has worked with this client for twenty-five years and thus knows the importance of accommodations for dogs and humans alike. “We joke that only one of us needs to be in a meeting because we agree on pretty much everything,” says the designer of his relationship with the client.

Bierman’s confidence derives from a history of working with this client on the design and decor of at least five homes, including the one in Florida currently being rebuilt. He recalls a moment in one of their first meetings more than two decades ago, when, after having arrived in his office, they sat down and realized that Bierman’s stereo sound speakers were positioned perfectly at ear level, evidence of the early-adopter’s conviction that technology is a significant component requiring substantial attention

in a thoughtfully designed home. Bierman says the husband, impressed by the sound quality, said, “I can work with him.” The affirmation kicked off a collaboration predicated on mutual respect and trust. Of the wife he says, “She’s incredibly hands-on. She could be a project manager.”

Over time Bierman has watched his client’s tastes migrate from a very traditional sensibility to one that is more transitional and modern. Still, he prides himself on being able to reassign pieces from one home to another either by refinishing or reupholstering. In this instance, the living-room tableau includes two chairs, one upholstered, one wood-framed, that were brought from the client’s previous house across town, tuned up and then replicated so that each now has a mate.

On his long list of interior contributions are highlights like the aforementioned Murano-inspired kitchen chandelier, the Macassar-ebony coffee table, and the living-room carpet with ombre shading that gives it the feel of something deeply organic despite its very geometric pattern.

“I’ve learned to listen to clients so that I understand what they’re really saying,” Bierman says. “When I make a presentation, I watch how their

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above: Symmetry prevails in this twin-pavilioned pool house where a guest can go to escape, and where table service is a cabana boy away.

faces react. We always think that other people see exactly what we’re seeing, [when they could be seeing something different]. So it’s about listening.”

Grounded by dark floors and black mahogany window casings—the grillwork on the front windows is removable for cleaning—the color palette consists of neutral whites, blacks, grays and flecks of silver.

Throughout the house Bierman placed crystal and glass objects and ornaments—candle-holders, vases—silver-leafed lamps, and pieces of interest like the mirrored credenza by Lorin Marsh in the master bedroom and the contemporary demi-lune sofa covered in lilac velvet in the daughter’s bedroom. (Bierman says he’s not the source of the small-scale shiny King Kong sculpture by Parisian pop artist and sculptor Richard Orlinski, which guards the living room from atop one of a set of matching coffee tables.)

Inside the turns of the back staircase, Bierman installed a custom chandelier that stretches the vertical distance of three stories, delicate, thread-like chains studded with crystal and spun-glass bubbles of light.

If symmetry is one of the client’s guiding principles, precision is another.

It may be most apparent in the gentleman’s dressing quarters of the patriarch of the house. LaPierre says that the carpentry had to be cut more than once to match sartorial specifications. The requirement included twenty or so square cubbies tailored exclusively for stacks of folded golf shirts each exactly an inch away from the cubby wall; open bays for suits and sports jackets measured to the length of the wearer’s sleeves; a bespoke belt rack; a retractable valet rod installed at a custom height; a built-in bureau for shoe horns and lint removers, among other essentials.

The lady’s dressing room is reminiscent of a couture showroom. Open closets, divided by broad aisles conducive to shopping one’s own wardrobe, brim with furs and chic evening wear and a rack dedicated to nothing but black slacks. The catwalk can’t be far.

As LaPierre marvels at this in-home boutique (it encompasses more than 700 square feet, not including the sitting area and master bath), he gestures toward a wall of mirrored doors and pulls at a handle. The door is locked.

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extreme tr uth Acclaimed documentary filmmaker matt heineman has devoted much of his career to exploring the darker side of humanity—war, drug cartels, terrorism. We caught up with the brunswick grad following the Greenwich International Film Festival screening of his first feature film, a private war, and quickly learned that his dedication to telling the tough stories is stronger than ever

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hile making A Private War, a feature film about the celebrated war correspondent Marie Colvin, who was killed during the Syrian Civil War in 2012, director Matthew Heineman enlisted Iraqi, Libyan and Syrian refugees to play small but important roles in the belief that only they could deliver the authenticity required. In one scene, Iraqi women weep and wail as a backhoe claws up the desert dust to reveal a mass grave. “These women were reliving real trauma,” Heineman tells us from his apartment in New York. “Those tears and those wails were real, and at the end of that day, when the sun was setting and the bodies had been unearthed, they started pounding on their chests and doing this prayer for the dead. That wasn’t scripted—that wasn’t planned.”

Late in the film, Colvin, played by Rosamund Pike, has snuck into the city of Homs to cover the Assad regime’s bombing of its own citizens. Colvin and her photographer, Paul Conroy, played by Jamie Dornan, enter a makeshift clinic where a man has brought his badly injured boy. The man playing the father was an actual refugee from Homs who Heineman discovered while filming in Jordan. “This man’s two-year-old nephew was shot off his shoulders at a protest in Homs and bled out right in front of him,” Heineman reports. So when the little boy in the film dies and the man shouts, “Wake up, my son! Why, God, why?” he is a vision of authentic pain. “The

trauma and grief that he brought onto the set were almost unbearable.”

The scene so disturbed Rosamund Pike that she walked off the set.

Consider: Pike has acted brilliantly in more than thirty feature films and earned an Oscar nomination for her performance in Gone Girl (2014).

And Heineman, by contrast, was a Hollywood rookie: A Private War, which came out last fall, was his first dramatic film. Yet he wasn’t really a rookie. In the comparatively hardscrabble world of documentaries, Heineman was a supernova, “one of the most talented and exciting documentary filmmakers working today,” according to a Sundance Film Festival jury. Cartel Land (2015), a spellbinding film about vigilantes doing battle against the Mexican drug cartels, won Heineman an Emmy Award and an Oscar nomination. His next doc, City of Ghosts (2017), which follows citizen journalists as they expose the horrors of ISIS in their home city of Raqqa, Syria, earned him another Emmy nomination. If Heineman knew one thing well, it was the piercing rawness of a true moment on film—the sort of moment that can’t be scripted. “I tried to bring as much of my documentary ethos to the narrative process as possible,” he says. On the set, that meant creating “an environment where real life could occur.”

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“I’m not sure I can handle this,” Heineman recalls her saying. “The lines between documentary and fiction are so blurred. Are we exploiting this man?”

Reached by phone, Rosamund Pike confirms the story. “The man was obviously transported back, and the grief that came out of him was so painful and so extraordinary—sort of this howl of a cry. And I thought, My God, is this okay, what we’re doing?”

She describes the man’s bewildered look as the doctor—who really was a doctor—pumps the boy’s chest in vain. “It’s like you forget the cameras are there, and it’s almost like you’re in something that’s horribly and horrifically real,” Pike says. “You know, this is cinema, but this is trading on people’s real stuff. As actors, we often live through real stuff again, but we understand it’s coming—we know that we dice with our emotions for a living, and sometimes they play you hard.” She pauses. “But this man is not an actor.”

On the set, Pike needed time to collect herself. “I felt a kind of cocktail of emotion that I couldn’t fully process, a combination of anger, upset…

I didn’t know where to put my feelings.”

Heineman drew her aside. “I said, ‘This is something I deal with on

a daily basis in my documentaries. And our job, as was Marie’s job, is to capture those moments.’” He went on, “We have this human instinct to want to give somebody a hug or to give them space. But if this man didn’t want to be here, he wouldn’t be here. He wants his story told.”

“Actually,” Pike says now, “I think that’s absolutely right—if you’re after the truth, your obligation is to document, as Marie did.” The moment sealed a bond of trust between director and lead actor. “He was a total support,” Pike continues. “You know, there’s a lot of crap about trust in our business. Everyone’s always saying they trust each other. But I really did trust Matt, and that’s why I went deeper. You have to trust someone in order to go to the really painful places.”

Likewise, Marie Colvin’s theory of war reporting was to go to the painful places—the human places, where the innocent suffered; only then could you capture war’s brutality with enough righteous force to gain the world’s notice. “There are great journalists who do the geopolitics, there are great journalists who do the military aspect of war,” photographer Paul Conroy tells us from London. “But both Marie and I thought the best way

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to bring home the horror of war is from the people who have the least ability to avoid it—the women and the kids.”

Conroy, who was badly injured in Homs, watched much of the filming on location in Jordan as a consultant; but he hadn’t viewed the final scene.

In it, the Syrian forces deliberately target Colvin (who, hours before, had reported live via satellite link that Assad was bombing civilians and lying about it) and score a direct hit on the makeshift media center where she’s sequestered, killing Marie and French photographer Rémi Ochlik. Conroy, a hole blown through his leg, finds Marie dead in the rubble. Then the camera pulls upward, into the sky, and we see a vision of apocalyptic destruction spread out before us.

In a London screening room, Jamie Dornan said to Conroy, “You don’t have to see this.” But he stayed. “It kind of caught me when I was watching it,” Conroy says. “I was emotional. And all I said to Matt was, ‘Look mate, I really need a cigarette before I comment.’ So I popped out for a smoke and I came back in and gave him a big hug. And I said, ‘Well done, mate.

You really did us proud.’”

Matt Heineman never set out to be a filmmaker. “I sort of stumbled into it,” he says. “I didn’t know a lot about film.” Born in Washington, D.C., he grew up in Darien in a family of lawyers and intellectuals. His grandfather, Ben W. Heineman, was an adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson who declined Johnson’s offers to make him ambassador to the United Nations and secretary of commerce, but, keenly interested in social justice, did serve as chairman of the White House Conference on Civil Rights.

Matt’s father, Ben Jr., was a Rhodes scholar, editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal and law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart. Today he’s a writer and a senior fellow at Harvard Law School. Matt’s mother, Cristine Russell, is also a writer, specializing in science and the environment, and a lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School. (The Heinemans live in New Canaan when they’re not teaching at Harvard.)

In 2001 Matt graduated from Brunswick—enhancing the private high school’s reputation for turning out filmmakers. Rod Lurie (The

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Contender, the TV show Commander in Chief) and Neil Burger (The Illusionist, The Upside) graduated from Brunswick in the 80s. After studying history at Dartmouth, Heineman applied to Teach for America, a nonprofit that sends talented teachers into low-income areas, but was, providentially, rejected. “I didn’t even know you could be rejected,” he says with a short laugh. “From there I was sort of left scratching my head.”

So Heineman did what many an untethered young American does: hit the road with friends. He brought along a video camera and learned how to use it with the aid of a trusty how-to guide. More enterprising than your average person, Heineman conducted interviews throughout his three-month tour—with everyone from low-level drug dealers to cancer researchers to Mark Zuckerberg—and shaped these interviews into a documentary portrait of his generation titled Our Time. One moment of creative awakening came in New Orleans, shortly after Hurricane Katrina, as Heineman followed a man back into the devastated Ninth Ward to see what remained of his house. “They’d just opened the Ninth Ward to residents, so he was going to see it for the first time—and I’ll never forget the power of this very intimate, emotional moment for this man, and being able to capture it through my lens,” Heineman says.

“I look back at that moment as when I knew that this was something I wanted to do forever.”

Next, Heineman (with noted documentary filmmaker Susan Froemke) made Escape Fire: The Fight To Rescue American Healthcare (2012).

The film lucidly depicts the United States’ healthcare dysfunction and showcases Heineman’s love of complex subjects. But even as he gained filmmaking expertise—Escape Fire won him his first Emmy nomination—Heineman never seemed to think of himself as a creature of the movies. He utters a sentence that’s hard to imagine any other filmmaker uttering: “I am by no means a cinephile.” Okay, but what films are his bellwethers, his north stars?—Citizen Kane? The Godfather? Pulp Fiction?

He hems. He haws. He says, “I’d be lying if I said I got into film because of X, Y, or Z.” One film that did make a mark was the celebrated 2005 documentary Murderball, about quadriplegic men who play extremely competitive wheelchair rugby. “I remember thinking, Wow, documentaries aren’t always the sort of medicine I remember seeing in history class,” he says. “They can be exciting, they can have characters that pop off the screen, they can have narrative arcs, and all the same drama that features have.”

be like you, traveling the world and doing good, clean jobs.”

This is the opening scene of Cartel Land; you can hardly believe these guys allowed Heineman to record them. “That was months and months and months and months of building trust and gaining rapport,” he says of the film, and by extension, of his method. Only dogged persistence allows him to be present for such telling scenes. At one point, we see grieving villagers lowering the caskets of murdered children into dusty graves. At another, we land smack in the middle of a gunfight between vigilantes and cartel members (it’s Heineman holding the camera as the bullets fly). At still another, we see (well, hear; the camera is at a discreet remove) the postcoital love talk between the charismatic but married leader of the vigilantes—Dr. José Manuel Mireles—and the hot young groupie he has shamelessly picked up.

Overall, we see an intricate, morally uncertain story unfold through Heineman’s poetic lens. There’s the vigilante in southern Arizona who fashions himself an American David versus the Mexican Goliath, though we only see him chasing a couple of desperate aliens around a very quiet Western front. Deep in Mexico, where the real Goliath is, there’s a police force both cowed and corrupted by the cartels. There are the vigilantes who resort to criminal tactics—including torture—to try to bring drug dealers to heel. And there’s the film’s putative hero, Mireles, the “good” vigilante whose fame ultimately goes to his head; when he refuses to disarm, the government claps him in jail.

In City of Ghosts, we always know who the bad guys are. What’s complicated is the situation: It all began during the Arab Spring of 2011 as Syrian citizens rose up in protest against the brutal Assad regime. When the regime responded to even small acts of defiance—like graffiti writing—with torture and killing, civil war erupted, with powerful proxies on both sides: Russia, Iran and Hezbollah supported Assad; and the U.S., France, UK, Turkey and Saudi Arabia backed the citizen rebels. Ramping up the complexity to a hellish degree, ISIS then waded in, establishing itself in Raqqa and creating a three-way war.

But it’s the good guys who we follow—the citizen journalists collectively known as “Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently,” or RBSS. They try to stay one step ahead of ISIS but don’t always succeed. Some are caught filming and killed. Others remain undercover in Raqqa, at great peril: ISIS’s white vans roam the streets, ferreting out satellite signals. RBSS cofounder Naji Jerf, a professional newsman known as the father of Syria’s citizen journalists, is hunted down in Turkey and murdered in broad daylight.

Weaving together his own footage with RBSS’s, Heineman gives us startling access to the inferno that was Raqqa. We see people executed at gunpoint in Freedom Square; we see their heads mounted on the pikes of a fence like so many pumpkins; we see a little boy knifing off the head of his teddy bear—a jihadi in training, not yet out of diapers. As one RSBB journalist put it, “Children are ISIS’s firewood.”

One of the most disturbing scenes, however, takes place in Germany, where a handful of RBSS journalists have been granted asylum after ISIS began killing them in Turkey. We’ve come to know these young men in all their bravery, humanity and suffering—and yet they find, in the orderly

a matter of trust Headlights chop through the Mexican night, illuminating a wasteland of sagebrush. Masked young men carrying assault rifles pile out into the darkness and roll barrels full of chemicals off the bed of their truck. Amid a cloud of fumes, they cook up a batch of crystal meth destined for the American market. “What can I say?” the leader asks in Spanish, throwing his hands in the air. “We come from poverty. If we were doing well, we’d

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streets of Berlin, masses of anti-refugee demonstrators waving black flags and chanting, “Deport them, deport them!” and “These pigs will learn to run!”—a chilling echo of America’s own nativist drift. The Syrians answer the demonstrators with quiet dignity, holding signs that say “Aleppo Is Burning.” “No other film has so convincingly, or so urgently, illustrated the role that media will play in our fight for the future,” wrote David Ehrlich of IndieWire.

Documentary filmmakers seldom cross over into feature films, perhaps because features are a different animal. They require scripts, actors, sets, storyboards, a shooting schedule and a crew of hundreds. Still, after the success of Cartel Land and City of Ghosts, the Hollywood offers came in and were rejected—until A Private War. “I felt an enormous kinship to Marie,” Heineman says. “Similarly to her, in my career I’ve tried to take very complicated subjects and put a human face on them.”

(The Greenwich International Film Festival recognized just this quality in 2017, when City of Ghosts won Best Social Impact Film. Heineman donated the $10,000 prize to RBSS, according to Ginger Stickel, the festival’s executive director.)

Artistically, the challenge was to create a truthful dramatic narrative while avoiding the sort of base-touching fidelity to biographical events that renders so many biopics flat. “I did not want to make a biopic,” Heineman says. “For me, the film is a psychological thriller in which we’re coming to understand what’s driving this woman to go to the most dangerous places on earth to tell these stories.”

telling the story of the storytellers Marie Colvin, born in Queens, raised on Long Island and schooled at Yale, spent most of her career reporting from conflict zones for the London Sunday Times. In 2001, while covering a civil war in Sri Lanka, she was sneaking through a cashew plantation at night when a grenade detonated, puncturing a lung and blinding her left eye. From then on she wore a black eyepatch that enhanced her swashbuckling reputation: She also drank, smoked, and cursed, all in profusion, and wore delightfully incongruous La Perla bras under her flak jacket. »

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She was not immune to the demons of war; at one point she had to be hospitalized for PTSD. Yet she always threw herself back into the fray. Why? It’s clear that Colvin is profoundly moved by the plight of war’s innocents and angered, or at least worried, by a jaded public’s indifference: “These are not just numbers,” she’d say. “I want to tell each person’s story.” But the deeper motivations remain properly mysterious—properly, because Colvin herself struggles to understand them. The film shows her living it up among her friends in London until the old itch inevitably takes hold, and then she’s off to another horror show.

Paul Conroy surmises that covering war was “just in Marie’s DNA.” Her thirty-year career took her to Chechnya, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, East Timor, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, among other warring places. But nothing compared to Homs. “We knew what we were getting into,” Conroy says, “because back in Beirut [before crossing into Syria] we logged on to the camera that was on the roof of the media center, and we could see quite clearly the destination we were heading to—you know, just wrecked to pieces by shells.”

Homs was physically cut off from the world by a full division of the Syrian Army. There existed, however, a secret route into the city through a three-kilometer-long storm drain; Marie and Paul scraped and hunched through it, emerging into the Baba Amr neighborhood as it shook under ferocious bombardment.

Did Colvin have second thoughts about coming to Syria? “Categori-

cally, no,” says Conroy. “She would never have been deterred. The best way to explain that is, Marie turned to me and said, ‘Why should we run? They can’t run’—[about] the women and the kids that we found in Baba Amr.” Marie customarily filed her stories on Friday. On Tuesday, February 21, the air strikes grew so savage and the deaths so numerous that she and Paul understood they probably wouldn’t live until Friday: Reporting on the civilian slaughter in Homs became an immediate necessity.

“That led to the decision that we ought to do broadcasts on CNN, BBC and [Britain’s] Channel Four,” Conroy says. “We spoke to the activists and said, ‘Look, if we report this live, we’ll likely bring recriminations, bad recriminations.’ And they said, ‘That’s why we’re here. Go ahead and broadcast.’ Six hours later Marie was dead.” She was fifty-six years old.

(This January a U.S. court determined that Colvin was indeed deliberately killed—the “bracketing” pattern of the rocket fire suggested a zeroing in— and ordered the Syrian government to pay Colvin’s family $302.5 million.

The judgment could pave the way for prosecuting the Assad regime for war crimes.)

It would be easy to sanctify Marie Colvin in death: Her bravery and her devotion to victims of war do strike average mortals as superhuman.

But A Private War resists that temptation. Rosamund Pike, nominated for a Golden Globe for her portrayal, says, “I wanted to put a woman on the screen who had all the complications—a courageous, brilliant, impassioned, committed person, but one who has flaws.” That Heineman

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had never worked with actors before was no drawback in Pike’s eyes; in fact, she came to view his documentary approach as a distinct asset. “I knew Matt Heineman would be the one to take an unflinching look at her, and not just give us hagiography.”

“In none of my films am I interested in creating one-dimensional portraits of people,” Heineman adds. “We are all complex human beings, driven by myriad emotions, feelings and thoughts. And so it’s always been very important to me to embrace the complexity of the human condition.”

In the broader view, A Private War—which is based on a 2012 article in Vanity Fair magazine by Marie Brenner—makes a timely case for journalism. “In one way or another, journalism is under fire,” says Conroy, citing President Trump’s ritual defamation of the press, the Saudis’ brazen, largely unpunished murder of the Washington Post’s Jamal Khashoggi, and the sheer number of journalists killed on the job (eighty-four last year) or imprisoned (about 330 as of March).

“For me,” says Heineman, “the film is not just an homage to Marie, but also to journalism—the importance of journalism, true journalism—to people who are out there fighting to shed light on dark corners of the world.”

The depressing coda to Colvin’s story is that, seven years later, the Syrian Civil War drones on, with Bashar al-Assad still solidly in power. “I think she’d be devastated,” says Heineman. “I doubt she ever would have thought the conflict would persist until today, with over half a million people killed since she died.” Conroy agrees, but adds: “If she had survived, there’s no way on this planet she wouldn’t be there now.”

Heineman has been working without cease for years. When we talked to him, the unmarried thirty-six-year-old was “actively trying to rest,” but confessed he isn’t much good at it. He hopes to do some surfing in Los Angeles. But he speaks of surfing in a slightly longing tone that suggests he won’t get to it anytime soon—not with all the demands of a career in full bloom upon him. Last year, in addition to A Private War, he completed a documentary series about America’s opioid crisis for the Showtime program The Trade; now he’s at work on a second series, about human trafficking. Further, he’s developing two new feature and two new documentary projects about which he is not ready to divulge particulars.

This January, Heineman did pause long enough to visit town for a soldout screening of A Private War, hosted by the Greenwich International Film Festival. “It felt exciting and strange and fun to be back,” he says. “It was really nice to screen for friends and family, and old teachers, and a lot of people that I hadn’t seen for a while.” The event put him in a reflective mood.

“When I was twenty-one years old, I heard [the renowned documentary filmmaker] Albert Maysles speak,” Heineman told his audience. “And he said, ‘If you end up with the story you started with, then you weren’t listening along the way.’ And I think that’s good advice for filmmaking and good advice for life as well. Be open to the story changing. Be open to the wonderful, happy accidents of life. If you told me when I was at Brunswick that I would be G where I am right now, I’d laugh.”

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After leading the effort to build the new Stamford Hospital, Greenwich resident KATHLEEN SILARD, who began her career as a registered nurse, becomes the first woman to take the helm at Stamford Health. Here, the CEO shares how she plans to meet the challenges posed by the state of modern healthcare

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hile Kathleen Silard was leading the team that was tasked to get the new $450-million Stamford Hospital off the ground, her to-do list included crisscrossing the country to visit other newly constructed hospitals. The trips, which Silard took with a team of doctors, nurses and former patients in tow, were intended to pinpoint what worked and—just as critically—what did not work in these new modern facilities.

“It was a gutsy move for us to build a new

hospital, so getting it right was important,” says Silard, who last fall was named the president and CEO of Stamford Health, the nonprofit health system that includes Stamford Hospital and Stamford Health Medical Group.

Silard began her career forty years ago as a registered nurse in the pediatric and neonatal intensive care unit at New York City’s Albert Einstein Hospital. So it stands to reason that on her rounds of these other hospitals, she viewed their layouts through the lens of a clinician who cares about her colleagues and patients.

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Kathleen Silard sets her sights on the future of Stamford Hospital with a strategic plan that supports patients and staff

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While Silard is focused on keeping Stamford Health independent, she says going it alone requires forging strong alliances. “I want us to remain independent, but [to] do that by being the most trusted healthcare partner we can be for our patients,” she says.

“We already have a dominant market share, but I think the way you keep that is by promoting value and trust that you are providing the best possible healthcare.”

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The chance to work in the new Stamford Hospital has become its own kind of signing bonus for top physician recruits, says Silard. “You have exceptional doctors—truly the best of the best—who are excited about working in this stateof-the-art facility.”

The new CEO adds that the benefit of living in the greater Stamford area has helped recruitment efforts, too. “We have so much to offer and certainly, that’s been a real selling point when talking to [medical talent] about the benefits of coming here.”

Silard is eager to expand her role in supporting local philanthropies. She is a member of the leadership council and a former board member of the Greenwich YWCA. She serves on the boards of the Business Council of Fairfield County and Stamford’s Cradle to Career and is involved with the Stamford Museum & Nature Center.

She’s deeply engaged with Vita Health and Wellness, which supports initiatives to help residents of Stamford’s West Side to live the healthiest lives possible.

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With more than 700 affiliated physicians and 140 members in the hospital’s own medical group, Silard wants to forge bonds with its dedicated docs. “They are critical to all the services we provide, and listening to them and finding new ways to support them is really important to me,” she says. greenwichmag.com

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Consider the patient rooms in a shiny new hospital somewhere in the western part of the U.S. that Silard prefers not to identify.

She grimaces while describing what-werethey-thinking room designs that included supply cabinets tucked in remote corners far from patients’ bedsides. “So every time a nurse needs something, they’ve got to leave the patient,” she says, pointing to the farthest corner of her office on Stamford Hospital’s West Side campus to make her point. “I mean you shouldn’t do that to the nurse, but you should never do that to the patient.”

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atients and their well-being come up a lot when speaking with Silard.

As the first registered nurse and woman to lead Stamford Hospital as its chief executive, getting things right for anyone confined to a hospital bed seems to be a calling. “The way I look at it, no one wants to be in the hospital because that usually means they’re very sick,” she says. “So, a big part of my job is to make sure that the experience of being in the hospital is as good as it can possibly be for that patient.”

While it’s noteworthy that the longtime Greenwich resident is the first woman to lead the 123-year-old hospital, it’s Silard’s nursing credentials—even though it’s been decades since she wore nurses’ scrubs—that friends and colleagues mention most when describing the long list of skills and talents that landed her in the C-suite of the city’s largest employer.

“The nurse has never left Kathy,” says Liz Concordia, her friend and president and CEO of University of Colorado Health, a network of hospitals based in the Rocky Mountain state. “Kathy has never taken her focus off what’s best for the patient. She’s never looked at healthcare as just a business, but as a mission and a passion. And that’s a big part of what’s behind where she is today.”

Silard was the unanimous choice of Stamford Health’s twelve-member board to replace Brian Grissler, who retired in October 2018 after serving as its president and CEO since 2001.

“I think what we saw in Kathy is someone who commands great respect, who’s decisive, transparent and above all, a true team player,” says Dr. Mark DeWaele, a New Canaan dentist who serves as chairman of Stamford Health’s board of directors. “It’s rare to find all the qualities she possesses in a single individual.

The fact that she’s a clinician who can also

talk the talk with a wide variety of people in the hospital and understands the dynamics of patient care only made her a stronger candidate.”

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County. “I learned a lot about medical practice management, but I missed the patients I saw daily in the hospital, and all the activity,” she says. So she returned to hospital administration at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Paterson, New Jersey, as its COO and executive vice president.

ilard joined Stamford Hospital in 2003 as its COO after a long career in healthcare administration that began at Albert Einstein. It oining the hospital as a COO sixteen was there that a nursing mentor who was years ago was a welcome homepursuing a degree in healthcare administration coming for Silard, who had settled encouraged her to consider responsibilities in Greenwich with Eddie, her busibeyond the patient floor. nessman husband of thirty-seven years and At the time, thinking beyond a tradia fellow City Islander. Silard was juggling her tional nursing role was a stretch. “I’m from executive duties with the role of hockey mom an era when women’s most obvious career to her three (now adult) sons while commuting paths were still teaching or nursing,” says more than an hour each way to New Jersey.

Silard, who grew up in City Island, New “The truth is, I was missing things,” says York, and was raised by a family of teachers.

Silard. “My boys were in school. They had “But I think from the second grade I thought nursing was how I would go. I liked science. It “Kathy has never taken her focus made sense.” off what’s best for the patient.

The demands of caring She’s never looked at healthcare as for children and infants in a busy, urban hospital just a business, but as a mission and like Albert Einstein was a a passion. And that’s a big part of challenge she embraced. what’s behind where she is today.”

“My first patients were really sick little kids,” —liz concordia, president and ceo, university of colorado health she recalls. “They had serious illnesses, and a lot of them had just had their sports and activities and I wanted to some heavy-duty surgeries, things like kidney be more involved in their lives. I also wanted transplants. They were going through a lot, to be more involved in the community where yet the thing about them that was so inspiring I lived. That’s a hard thing to do when you’re was how incredibly resilient they were.” spending so much time in the car just to get As much as she loved her patients, Silard back and forth to work.” became intrigued by the work that went Concordia, who worked with Silard at on behind the scenes to make it possible to St. Joseph’s and considers her a mentor, says care for them. “To me, the hospital was like her former colleague was a role model for this great big puzzle, and I was interested in working executive parents. “She’s very bright, seeing how it all worked. I asked a lot of quesdiligent and incredibly efficient. She gets to tions. And the more I learned, the more I the point.

Meetings begin and end on time wanted to know.” ,and she has a clear vision of what she wants After getting an advanced degree in to get accomplished.

One of the many reasons healthcare administration at Iona College, I admired her was it was always clear that her Silard pursued roles that took her away family and children were very important to from direct patient care. She left pediatric her and she never apologized for that. Yet she nursing to become executive director of always took the time to be an advocate and clinical operations at Albert Einstein, then mentor to her colleagues. ” went on to become executive director of Silard’s tenure at Stamford Hospital evenMontefiore Medical Group, a large medical tually became a sort of on-the-job tryout for practice that today employs more than CEO when she was tasked with leading the 100 doctors in the Bronx and Westchester

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efforts to build the new hospital, which opened in 2016. Its modern amenities include a Level Two trauma center, a dedicated pediatric emergency department, a helipad, thirteen football-field-sized floors and 180 private patient rooms.

“While [building the new facility] was an enormous team effort, Kathy was the lynchpin,” says Dr. DeWaele. “She brought it all in on time and under budget. It’s part of the tremendous legacy of work she’s done to get where she is.”

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s she settled in to chat about her vision for Stamford Health not long after her promotion was announced in October, Silard reflected on the unique opportunity she had to help build the hospital she now leads. “So much has changed in the [healthcare] marketplace since we made that bold decision to build,” she says. “I feel very lucky that we were able to give this community this modern, stateof-the art hospital; but, honestly, you probably won’t see something like this happen again in Fairfield County, or our state, for a long, long time.”

That’s because Silard has assumed the hospital’s helm at a time when the business of providing healthcare has probably never

been more competitive, complicated or ripe for disruption. “There are so many challenges for any nonprofit hospital,” she says. Among them are skyrocketing costs of healthcare, which make it daunting even for those who are insured to pay for medical services and burdensome high deductibles. Then there are the recent changes in the structure of Medicare reimbursements, which Silard predicts could negatively impact the hospital’s balance sheet.

Another cost burden: the state’s high hospital taxes, which Stamford Health has intensely lobbied against. “The bottom line is that we must grow and adapt to deal with all those things,” she says.

Before she assumed her new role, the hospital’s board gave Silard some serious homework: drafting a strategic plan for its future. “Even though it was something I had never done before, it was an experience I ultimately welcomed because it gave me the chance to dig deep and really think about the future,” she says.

Some of Silard’s objectives (see sidebar on page 104) grew out of that planning. They include maintaining Stamford’s status as the lone independent not-for-profit hospital in Fairfield County. (Rivals Greenwich, Norwalk and Bridgeport hospitals and St. Vincent’s greenwichmag.com

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The iconic stone pillar in the hospital’s main concourse recognizes those donors who contributed $1 million or more to Healing Reimagined–the campaign for Stamford Hospital.

Medical Center are part of various larger healthcare networks.) “I think one way to do this is to continue to focus on strategic partnerships,” says Silard.

Case in point are the affiliations Stamford Health has formed in the past several years with the Hospital for Special Surgery and the Dana-Farber Brigham and Women’s Cancer Care Collaborative, as well as a teaching partnership with the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. “We want to be the most trusted healthcare partner in the market,” she says. “And I think we can do that by staying independent, while forging strong alliances with respected leaders in their fields.”

There’s still a lot to do. Though her schedule is dominated by lots of meetings, she ventures out in the hospital whenever possible to take the pulse of what’s going on around her. Her frequent “rounds” are prompted by a desire to stay in touch and promote teamwork.

Dr. DeWaele observes: “A lot of CEOs can be insular and tend to prefer staying in the corner office. She’s the opposite.”

Silard explains: “At my core, I’m a people person and I like to connect. And the people who are taking care of our patients are pretty important. If there’s something wrong or there’s a shortage of something, I want to hear about it.

Of course, I want to hear the good stuff, too. I’ll never say we’re perfect, but we should strive to get things right, or as close to right as possible.”

One thing she’s been hearing on these listening tours has surprised her. It’s the verbal thumbs-up she’s been getting from staff, often female nurses and doctors, who want to celebrate her historic promotion. “At first it shocked me,” says Silard, who makes it clear the CEO role wasn’t something she sought to break through any real or imagined glass ceiling at Stamford Health. “It wasn’t in my [thinking] at all, so it surprised me how much it seemed to matter to other people. So when they tell me they are happy or proud, I do appreciate it. But I hope that what I’ve achieved just inspires the many talented women—and also the men—I work with to think outside the box about their own careers.”

Silard pauses to add one anecdote: She did receive one congratulatory phone call from Marna Borgstrom, the CEO and president of Yale New Haven Health Services and Yale New Haven Hospital, the first woman to lead a Connecticut hospital and healthcare system.

What did she say? Silard grins. “She said, ‘I’m G so glad there are two of us now.’”

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Family Centers No matter the weather outside, the sun will be shining at Family Centers’ Under the Tuscan Sun benefit on Friday, June 7. Held at a private home in Greenwich, the evening will transport you to a classic villa in the Italian countryside. As Family Centers’ largest fundraiser of the year, proceeds from the event will benefit the organization’s health, education and human service programs that help more than 21,000 children and families throughout Fairfield County. familycenters.org

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ALDRICH MUSEUM, 258 Main St., Ridgefield, 438-0198. Tues.-Sun. noon- 5 p.m.; Fri. until 8 p.m.

AMY SIMON FINE ART, 1869 Post Rd. East, Westport, 259-1500. Tues.-Sat. 11 a.m.5:30 p.m., or by appointment.

BRUCE MUSEUM, 1 Museum Dr., 869-0376.

Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. 1-5 p.m. Tue. 11, iCreate 2019; Wed. 22, From Butterflies to Battleships.

Current exhibits: Buried Treasures of the Silk Road (through June 2); Sharks!; Summer with the Averys [Milton | Sally | March]. Free for members, $8 general admission.

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C. PARKER GALLERY, 409 Greenwich Ave., 661-0205. Tues.-Sat. 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. 12-4 p.m.

(Check exhibition hours during exhibitions.) Sat. 1-2, Good Times, Big Hair: The Rock Photography of Mark Weiss, featuring artists from Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bon Jovi, Van Halen to Bruce Springsteen, Jerry Garcia and Aerosmith.

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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.

CARRIAGE BARN ARTS CENTER, 681 South Ave., New Canaan, 972-2895.

Wed.-Sat. 10 a.m.-3 p.m.; Sundays 1-5 p.m. Sat. 1-14,

Art in the Windows: View local artwork throughout downtown New Canaan.

CAVALIER GALLERIES, 405 Greenwich Ave., 8693664. Mon.-Sat. 10:30 a.m.6 p.m.; Sun. noon-5 p.m. and 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.

J. RUSSELL JINISHIAN GALLERY, 1657 Post Rd., Fairfield, 259-8753. Tues.Sat. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Large selection of original marine and sporting art by Christopher Blossom, Frederick Cozzens, Donald Demers, William Duffy, Carl Evers, Flick Ford, James Griffiths, Russ Kramer and many others.

PELHAM ART CENTER, 155 Fifth Ave., Pelham, NY, 914-738-2525 ext. 113.

Tues.-Fri. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat. noon-4 p.m.

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.

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.

Bruce Museum For the tenth annual iCreate exhibition, from June 8-July 9, high school students from the region submitted original artworks for consideration. Judges select forty-five pieces for display, with the top five winning cash prizes up to $500, plus a People’s Choice Award. The works represent various mediums, including oil, watercolor, acrylic, tempera, gouache, pastel and mixed media. This year’s submissions include Breakfast (above), an acrylic by Joanna Wei, a sophomore at Hopkins School in New Haven. On view in the Bantle Lecture Gallery. brucemuseum.org CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY PRINTMAKING, 299 West Ave., Norwalk, 899-7999.

Mon.-Sat. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. noon-5 p.m. Sun. 2-Sept.

1, 12th Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition.

CLAY ART CENTER, 40 Beech St., Port Chester, NY, 914-937-2047. Mon.Sat. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. or by appt.

DISCOVERY MUSEUM AND PLANETARIUM, 4450 Park Ave., Bridgeport, 372-3521. Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m.5 p.m.; Sun. noon-5 p.m.

The Discovery Museum’s 20,000-square-foot facility includes changing and permanent interactive exhibit galleries, a planetarium, Challenger Learning Center,

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

GERTRUDE G. WHITE GALLERY, YWCA, 259 E. Putnam Ave., 869-6501. Mon.-Fri. 9 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sat. 10 a.m.4:30 p.m.

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.

Fri. 1-July 23, An American Story: Finding Home in Fairfield County.

GILLES CLEMENT GALLERY, 45 East Putnam Ave., 489-3556. Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sun. 12-5 p.m.

Sat. 1-6, Robert Mars: These Important Years.

FLINN GALLERY, 101 W. Putnam Ave., 622-7947.

Mon.-Wed., Fri.-Sat., 10 a.m.5 p.m.; Thurs. 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sun. 1-5 p.m. . Fri. 1-19, Time and Place: Works on Paper. Featured artists include Frances Ashforth, Lori Glavin, Justin Kim, Shona Macdonald.

GREENWICH ARTS COUNCIL, 299 Greenwich Ave., 862-6750. Mon.Fri. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat.Sun. noon-4 p.m. The Bendheim Gallery hosts major exhibitions every six weeks; visit greenwichartscouncil.org.

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

LOFT ARTISTS ASSOCIATION, 575 Pacific Street., Stamford, 202-2472027 or loftartists.com.

Sat. and Sun. 1-4:30 p.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.

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.

NEUBERGER MUSEUM OF ART, Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase, NY, 914-251-6100.

ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER, 145 Rowayton Ave., Rowayton, 866-2744. Tues.-Sat. noon5 p.m.; Sun. 1-4 p.m.

SAMUEL OWEN GALLERY, 382 Greenwich Ave., 3251924. Mon.-Sat., 10:30 a.m.6 p.m.; Sun., 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

The gallery is committed to exhibiting the work of emerging to mid-career artists, as well as a variety of strong secondary market works.

SILVERMINE GUILD ARTS CENTER, 1037 Silvermine Rd., New Canaan, 966-9700.

Tues.-Sat., noon-5 p.m.; Sun. 1-5 p.m.

SM HOME GALLERY, 70 Arch Street, Greenwich, 629-8121, Mon.-Fri. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Sat. 11 a.m.5 p.m. or by appointment.

Featuring award-winning regional and national contemporary artists. Visit sandramorganinteriors.com for exhibit information.

STAMFORD ART ASSOCIATION, 39 Franklin St., Stamford, 325-1139.

Thurs.-Fri. 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; Sat.-Sun. noon-3 p.m.

Tue. 14, 20th Annual Vivian & Stanley Reed Marine Show.

STAMFORD MUSEUM & NATURE CENTER, 39 Scofieldtown Rd., Stamford, 322-1646.

Mon.-Sat. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

THOMAS J. WALSH GALLERY, Fairfield Univ., 1073 N. Benson Rd., Fairfield, 254-4000, ext. 2969. Tues.Sat. 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. noon-4 p.m.

UCONN STAMFORD ART GALLERY, One University Pl., Stamford, 251-8400. Mon.Thurs. 9 a.m.-7 p.m.; Fri. 9 a.m.5 p.m.; Sat. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. »

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LONG WHARF THEATRE, 222 Sargent Dr., New Haven, 787-4282. Fri. 15, Menopause, The Musical.

RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE, 80 East Ridge,Ridgefield, 438-9269. For shows and times visit ridgefieldplayhouse.org.

RIDGEFIELD THEATER BARN, 37 Halpin Ln., Ridgefield, 431-9850. Sat. 1-22, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

SHUBERT THEATER, 247 College St., New Haven, 800-228-6622. Visit shubert .com for more shows, dates and times.

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

Kate Stoupas, Blythe Stoecklein and Patricia Ekvall at the 2018 luncheon.

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

8 p.m.; Wed. 2 and 8 p.m.; Thurs, and Fri. 8 p.m.; Sat. 3 and 8 p.m.; Sun. 3 p.m.

Tue. 4-22, Skeleton Crew.

In its ninety-eighth year, the annual GRTA Horse Show on Sunday, June 9, continues in high style, featuring a country luncheon and silent auction, and plenty of fabulous hats. Set on a backcountry estate in Greenwich, the event helps support the nonprofit organization’s mission to preserve, protect and promote open space. thegrta.org WESTPORT ARTS CENTER, 51 Riverside Ave., Westport, 226- 7070. Mon.-Fri. 10 a.m.5 p.m.; Sat.-Sun. noon-4 p.m.

YALE CENTER FOR BRITISH ART, 1080 Chapel St., New Haven, 432-2800.

Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. noon-5 p.m. Permanent collection on view.

YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY, 1111 Chapel St., New Haven, 432-0611.

Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Thurs. until 8 p.m.; Sun. 1-6 p.m. The permanent collection includes African

art, American decorative art, American paintings and sculpture, ancient art, Asian art, coins and medals, and modern and contemporary art.

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

Visit websterbankarena.com for shows.

AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER, 272 Bedford St., Stamford, 661-0321. Visit avontheatre.org for special events and guests speakers.

CURTAIN CALL, The Sterling Farms Theatre Complex, 1349 Newfield Ave., Stamford, 329-8207. Tue. 7-29, Big River. Visit curtaincallinc.com for times.

70 Sanford St., Fairfield, 2591036. Visit fairfieldtheatre.org for dates, shows and times.

GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE, 6 Main St., East Haddam, 860-873-8668. Sat. 1-20, The Music Man.

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

GREENWICH LIBRARY, 101 W. Putnam Ave., 6227900. Film Nights: Fri. 7, I, Tonya, 7:30 p.m.; Fri. 14, Le Bonheur, 7:30 p.m.; Fri. 21, The Founder, 7:30 p.m.; Fri. 28, 8 1/2, 7:30 p.m.

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LECTURES, TOURS & WORKSHOPS ALDRICH MUSEUM, 258 Main St., Ridgefield, 438-0198. Tues.-Sun. noon5 p.m.; Fri. until 8 p.m. Fri. 7, First Fridays: A Contemporary Cocktail Hour, 7-9 p.m.; visit aldrichart.org for more information.

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

Sun. 2, first Sunday bird walk at Greenwich point, 9 a.m.; visit Greenwich.audubon.org.

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BOWMAN OBSERVATORY PUBLIC NIGHT, NE of Milbank/ East Elm St. rotary on the grounds of Julian Curtiss School, 8696786, ext. 338. Wed. 5 and 19, observatory open to the public free of charge, 8-10 p.m., weather permitting. Sponsored by the Astronomical Society of Greenwich.

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.

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.

GREENWICH BOTANICAL CENTER, 130 Bible St., 869-9242 or greenwichbotanicalcente .org. Fri. 7-8, Grandiflora Garden Tour: Gain rare access to high-end private estates that feature the work of our community’s most celebrated horticulturists and landscape designers. Visit the website for tickets and times.

CLAY ART CENTER, 40 Beech St., Port Chester, NY, 914-9372047. Clay Art Center’s mission is to offer a stimulating space for studio practice, exhibition

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YWCA Greenwich Celebrate 100 years of the YWCA at a special gala on Saturday, June 1, from 6:30 p.m. to midnight. The property at 259 East Putnam Avenue will be transformed for the Centennial Celebration. Today, the YWCA continues to fulfill its mission to eliminate racism, empower women and girls and promote inclusion in our community through adult and children's programming, community partnerships, and through the vital work of YWCA Domestic Abuse Services. Tickets available for purchase online. ywcagreenwich.org

Drop-In Computer Lab, Chess Club, Volunteer Tax Assistance, Foreign Affairs Book Discussion Group; for dates and times visit greenwichlibrary.org.

KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART, 26 Bedford Rd., Chappaqua, NY, 914-2329555. 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 OPEN HOUSE DAY, statewide, Sat. 8, for more information visit CTvisit.com.

GREENWICH & LONGSHORE-SOUTHPORT KENNEL CLUBS, Taylor Farm Park, East Norwalk, Sat. 8-9, AKC All-Breed Dog Show, with obedience and rally trials, silent auction, free show tours, puppy groups & best puppy show, canine-related vendors and demonstrations by disaster and wilderness

ground search rescue teams and their dogs, for information visit greenwichkc.org SHAKESPEARE ON THE SOUND, Pinkney Park Rowayton, Thurs. 20-July 7, Twelfth Night, for details visit shakespeareonthesound.org THREADS & TREADS, Greenwich Point, 661-0142.

Fri. 14, Cook Your Buns 3 Mile Run & BBQ, 1-mile (for kids) and 3-mile run, 6:30 p.m.

COMING IN EARLY JULY GREENWICH DEPT. OF PARKS AND RECREATION, Binney Park and Greenwich Point, Fourth of July fireworks at dusk, Sat. 6, rain date: Sun. 7. »

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KIDS’ STUFF / JUNE 2019

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. Sat. 22 & 23, Great American Campout!; spaces are limited so register early.

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

RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE, 80 East Ridge, Ridgefield, 438-5795. Visit ridgefieldplayhouse.org for more information.

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

Round up the kids and head to Junior League of Greenwich’s Touch A Truck on Sunday, June 9, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Kids can pretend to drive big rigs including fire trucks, construction trucks and military vehicles. The family fun continues with bounce houses, live music, food trucks, educational programming and more.

Visit jlgreenwich.org for advance tickets; $12 per person, $50 per family (up to 6 members). VIP entry at 9:30 a.m.

ALDRICH MUSEUM, 258 Main St., Ridgefield, 4384519. Tues.-Sun. noon-5 p.m.; Fri. until 8 p.m. Sat. 15, Family Art Experiences, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

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

Sun. 2, First Sunday bird walk, Tod’s Point, 9 a.m.

AUX DÉLICES, 23 Acosta St., Stamford, 326-4540 ext. 108. Sun. 9, Don’t Forget Dad! Father’s Day treats, visit auxdelicesfoods.com for the summer menus; all classes 4-6 p.m.

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 SouthAmerican 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 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 workshops.

CLAY ART CENTER, 40 Beech St., Port Chester, NY. Sat. 1, Spring Fest: Featuring Adopt-a-Dog Pet Adoption Event, hands-on clay activities, face painting, food, raffle and pottery sale, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

DISCOVERY MUSEUM AND PLANETARIUM, 4450 Park Ave., Bridgeport, 372-3521. Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m.

-5 p.m.; Sun. noon-5 p.m.

The Discovery Museum’s

20,000-square-foot facility includes changing and permanent interactive exhibit galleries, a planetarium, Challenger Learning Center, an auditorium and five multipurpose classrooms where hands-on science classes are conducted for schools, groups and the general public.

GREENWICH LIBRARY, 101 W. Putnam Ave., 6227900. 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.

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

Sherlock Holmes and the Haunted Cabaret coming in October.

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, maritimeaquarium.org.

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.

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.

GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 39 Strickland St., 869-6899. Visit hstg.org for camp and programs.

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

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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. Sun. 2, Sunday Explorers Drop-In Program, 1-4 p.m.; Sat. 8-9, Heckscher Farm Festival, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; Sun. 9, 16, 23, 30, Farm Market, 10 a.m.2 p.m.; Sun. 16 & 30, Spring Planetarium Shows, 1:302:30 p.m.; Tues. 25, FIY: Easy Cheesy Lemon Squeezy, make an easy farmer’s cheese with goat milk, 3-4:30 p.m.

For ongoing programs visit stamfordmuseum.org STEPPING STONES MUSEUM FOR CHILDREN, 303 West Ave., Mathews Park, Norwalk, 899-0606. Open daily 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Ongoing exhibits: Energy Lab, Tot Town, build it!, state-of-theart Multimedia Gallery and Light Gallery; Ongoing events: science lab, community gardens; Rainforest Adventures and Color Coaster; visit steppingstonesmuseum .org for daily classes.

WESTPORT ARTS CENTER, 51 Riverside Ave., Westport, 222-7070. Visit westportartscenter.org for workshops and camps. G

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Drew Klotz Kinetic Sculpture . . . . . . . 119

BUILDING & HOME IMPROVEMENT

Citibank/Perry Gaa & Joseph Potvin . . . . 35 Cummings & Lockwood LLC . . . . . . . . 16

DECORATING & HOME FURNISHINGS

Amy Aidinis Hirsch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Serena & Lily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

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95.9, The Fox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 The Ridgefield Playhouse . . . . . . . . . 115 Stamford Tent & Event Services . . . . . . 66

EVENTS

The 5th Annual Betteridge Challenge . . . 2 The Thirty-Second Bruce Museum Gala Thank You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 A-list Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 An Evening to Remember: The Alzheimer's Association Connecticut Chapter Seventh Annual Celebrating Hope 2019 Thank You . . . . . . . . . . 98 Best of the Gold Coast Online Store . . . . 52 Greenwich Chamber of Commerce Sidewalk Sale Days . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Light a Fire 2019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Moffly Media's 2019 Event Lineup . . . . 116 Moffly Media's Women in the Know Thank You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Stamford magazine's Best Bartender . . 113 Westchester Magazine's Wine & Food Festival . . . . . . . . . . . 110

FOOD, CATERING & LODGING

Alba's Ristorante . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Harvest Wine Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 J House Greenwich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Marcia Selden Catering . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Private Staff Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

HEALTH & BEAUTY

Breast Cancer Alliance . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Cosmetic Dental of Greenwich LLC . . . . 76

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Sam Bridge Nursery & Greenhouses, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

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Adopt-A-Dog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Greenwich Point Conservancy . . . . . . 108

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Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices . . . 20 Coldwell Banker Global Luxury . . . . . . . 51 Coldwell Banker Global Luxury/ Tamar Lurie Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 David Ogilvy & Associates . . . . . Cover 2, 1 Fifteen Hudson Yards . . . . . . . . . . . 10, 11 Houlihan Lawrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Sotheby's International Realty . . . . . . . . 9 Sotheby's International Realty/ Alice Duff & Courtney Belhumeur . . . . 8 Sotheby's International Realty/ Joseph Barbieri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 William Raveis/Bill DeLuca . . . . . . . . . 33

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elissa McCann Santangelo’s husband, Robert, is an avid golfer, and every summer he’d try to convince her to hit the links with him. Melissa, a non-golfer but passionate photographer, struck a deal—she’d give it a go so long as she could bring her camera. So off they went to Stanwich a few evenings a week. On this particular evening, their fourteen-year-old son, Sam, joined the couple.

“When I saw Robert and Sam walking into the gorgeous sunset, I was thrilled to have my camera handy to capture the moment. I’m not sure if my golf game got anywhere that summer, but I did get some amazing pictures,” says Melissa.

We wish all the dads out there a picture-perfect Father’s Day. G

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