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Award-winning journalist Chris Whipple gives us a rare glimpse inside our nation’s most secretive and powerful institutions. Dick Cheney, Leon Panetta and Donald Rumsfeld are just a few of the powerhouses who got candid with him about major historical events. by t i mot h y d umas
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56 G-MOM Whether you want to foster a service dog or certify your pup as a therapy dog, we’ve got the resources; Need family-friendly excursions to make it through until real spring arrives? We’ve got you covered.
63 PEOPLE & PLACES Transportation Association of Greenwich & Bistro V; National Executive Service Corps; Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital & J House Greenwich; Greenwich Historical Society, History in the Making Awards
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Every Presidency and The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future. Senior Writer Tim Dumas sat down with Chris recently, and the result is absolutely fascinating (“All Access,” page 74). It is no exaggeration to say that the most powerful people in Washington have trusted Chris with their accounts of the world’s most historic events. We are taken behind closed doors and hear about conversations like the one that might have but, sadly, didn’t prevent 9/11. We’re shocked to find out that some very controversial politicians are actually kind of likeable. And we get Chris’ frank opinions on subjects like the worst chief of staff in history. I’m confident that after meeting Chris in our pages your next stop will be the bookstore. Sure, you could binge-watch the latest Hollywoodized version of conspiracy, warfare and political strife, but that kind of pales in comparison to the real thing don-tcha think? WILLIAM TAUFIC
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I was terribly proud of my basil until I took it to the office and was told it was mint.
t’s spring (almost), when little green things start springing from the ground. And since this is our landscaping issue, it seems a good time to reflect on my earthly adventures. As a city child in Cleveland, I loved visiting family friends who lived in the country— an area called Daisy Hill, except oddly their specialty was daffodils. My brothers and I were allowed to pick armloads of them. During the war, we also had a communal Victory Garden behind our apartment building where I managed to outdo my archrival Antoinette by growing an eggplant much bigger than hers. I left it proudly hanging on the vine until it rotted and fell off. And that was about it in for gardening, until I married Jack. His mother, Audrey (later “Granny”), was an expert, her gardens in Philadelphia gracing the pages of national magazines. She was also a traveler and a smuggler. If there were cedars of Lebanon on her property, you can bet they were the real thing brought back as seedlings in little baggies in the toes of her shoes. “What do you do when customs asks if you have any flora and fauna?” I once asked her. “Do you lie?” “Oh, no, Dearie,” she huffed. “I never lie. I just don’t hear.” That part was God’s truth. She was deaf as a post. Granny taught us a lot about cultivation. For instance, you can take a lower branch of a rhodo, push it into the earth with a rock on top, and next year you’ll have a whole new bush. She rented her cottage to newlyweds, accepting payment in the form of (heavily supervised) garden work. She had a potting shed by a babbling brook where our kids loved to pick watercress for salads. (They usually fell in.) And Granny had magificent trees—like the copper beach with a swing in the front yard and handsome pines in back. When Jack’s
father died, she asked my sister-in-law and me to cut pine boughs for over his coffin in church. So out we went with our clippers, cutting away until I finally turned to Sally and said: “Do you think we have enough?” “I don’t know,” she responded. “Lie down.” Years later, with Jack holding her hand on her deathbed, his mother would tell him she was worried about who was going to get her boxwood. Well, I tried. I was terribly proud of my basil until I took a bunch to the office and was told it was mint. It just tasted like basil because it had grown next to so much of it. I read that plastic keeps down weeds, so I threw a shiny black tarp on the ground, punched holes in it for squash seeds and ended up with zillions of slugs underneath and squash vines that blackened inch by inch, finally turning the yellow blossoms into yuck. Jack and I planted 100 bulbs Granny sent us for Christmas, and only ten tulips came up. But I was quite successful at transplanting pachysandra from our front yard to other spots. Plus, I could spy on the new people moving in across the street. Jack did have a touch of his mother in him, though. He loved orchids and babied them for years—complete with a tiny humidifier—in the bay window of our dining room. Now I’m struggling to keep them alive. As for getting rid of the Christmas tree— the latest greenery in the house—I’ve got it nailed. Or rather, Rosie, Blackie, Rufus and Madeline do. “Why take it to Tod’s Point?” daughter Audrey asked me. “I can feed it to my goats! They’d love it!” “You’re kidding,” I said in disbelief. “They’d eat that thing?” “Down to the last needle,” she replied. “It may take them a few months, but they will.” The ultimate recyclers. Whaddo I know? G
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SAKSWORKS HAS TRANSFORMED ITS ELEGANT NEW GREENWICH AVENUE SPACE
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Company (HBC), which operates the Saks Fifth Avenue family of stores. Although the Greenwich outpost is equally well-appointed with lots of stylish small offices—including oversized phone-booth-style private working spaces—SaksWorks rebranded the location as a restaurant/ event destination shortly after its late fall opening to comply with town regulations. “It’s a large space and we had to be creative in terms of how we
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A grand limestone staircase leads guests upstairs to many private dining areas.
LET’S GET THIS PARTY STARTED The finest elements of the former Ralph Lauren store—its grand spiral staircase, sweeping archways, cozy fireplaces and rooms of eclectically mixed proportions—have been transformed with soirées in mind. Paired with fashion-forward updates (check out the elevator drenched in a Hermés orange), lots of leather sofas and 7,000 linear feet of antique books, the place is an event planner’s dream. It even smells luxe, with SaksWorks signature scent gently wafting through the rooms. There are rooms perfect for intimate fêtes like engagement parties, bridal showers and see-andbe-seen cocktail parties. Larger spaces appointed with sprawling tables are perfect for those days the office team wants to get off Zoom and really connect. “We think events are going to be huge for us,” said Fitzpatrick, who noted the Greenwich SaksWorks team has worked closely with Ruby & Bella’s staff to create special limited menu options for event planners, meetings and small groups. Compass Realty kicked off the social scene with its holiday party in December. Since then, the SaksWorks team has fielded more than fifty queries for Greenwich events with interest spanning well into 2023, said Mader.
Cozy nooks make the large space feel intimate and inviting.
approach what we’re doing to be in compliance with the town,” explains Greenwich General Manager David Fitzpatrick of the pivot from the SaksWorks’ membership model used elsewhere. Those complications aside, the decision for HBC to bring SaksWorks to Greenwich and its environs was a timely one. Covid has rewritten just about every employee handbook rule out there. With so many Fairfield County professionals working remotely, there’s a hankering for places where they can quietly tap away at their keyboards or meet in small groups without having to schlep back to the office or deal with household distractions. “We’re not back to business in the same way. The playbook for how and where we work has really changed,” says Kerry Mader, SaksWorks’ CEO. “Whether people are working in a hybrid way or from home, most of us are still not going back to the office five days a week.” So SaksWorks came to the rescue with a creative space where locals can gather, work, imbibe and dine courtesy of Ruby & Bella’s, the new farmto-table restaurant that is the delicious focal point of the Greenwich Avenue location’s voluminous first floor. We checked in with Mader and Fitzpatrick to learn more about what’s in store for guests.
2 THE INS AND OUTS Since Greenwich SaksWorks is unique, it doesn’t adhere to all the same membership-driven rules as some of its sister spaces do. But local residents can buy memberships at another SaksWorks location to regularly access the private dining spaces in Greenwich, including those that
feature desks and work setups. Those memberships also provide access to other amenities such as lower-level showers, transportation storage (bikes, scooters, etc.) and discounts on space rentals. The intimate bar, coffee kiosk and full-service restaurant, Ruby & Bella’s, are open to the public. Membership rates for other clubs •$250 per month with a one-year commitment or $299 per month •A $49-a-day rate is available for non-members who want to access a private space on a one-time basis or use it occasionally.
3 THE SCENE Folks who are dropping in to dine, work and gather are a lot like the space itself: interesting and diverse. “While we’re definitely seeing the corporate client we anticipated, we’re seeing there’s a lot of variation in who’s coming in and why,” says Mader. “A good percentage is female. Some are professionals, and some are moms looking for a place to hang out. There’s also a real age variation. We’re seeing people from their thirties to their fifties and sixties who are simply looking for a place to do things in the community.” When we popped in to dine at Ruby & Bella’s recently, we spied a group of women knitting and sipping champagne in one of the first-floor sitting rooms, while professionals finished up their workdays on laptops near the bar.
4 TAKING RESERVATIONS Before launching Ruby & Bella’s, Mader booked reservations at every restaurant on Greenwich Avenue to see what the competition was
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Private spaces where members can dine and relax are found throughout the building.
bringing to the table. “We looked at everything—from menu to service and ambiance—and came up with something we feel is unique but also fits in the landscape,” says Mader. SaksWorks then partnered with Chef Jason Leckey, most recently the sous chef at The Cottage in Westport, to transform its culinary vision into a lean yet enticing American-inspired farmto-table menu. The ambiance at lunch and dinner service is casual-meetselevated with walls painted a vibrant yet soothing shade of lime paired with green velvet
Carb cravers can get their fix on the side with the sublime fries or indulge with at least a spoonful of the to-die-for chocolate pot de crème or a crowd favorite grownup version of milk and cookies. You can also order from a pareddown Ruby & Bella’s takeout menu to help power through the next item on the to-do list while working in one of its private dining spaces upstairs. Or pop into SaksWorks for cocktails or a fresh gourmet coffee and work Starbucks-style in its café area.
banquettes and oak-paneled floors. Tables are spaced nicely and accented by a statement-making array of black-and-white works by David Yarrow on loan from the Samuel Owen Gallery. The gallery is collaborating with SaksWorks to bring in rotating exhibitions. While you can order a sizzling bone-in filet mignon and hefty burger, most of Leckey’s entrées skew better-for-you. Think medium rare salmon piled on a nest of spaghetti squash, succulent scallops, chicken paillard, chopped salads and vegan-friendly roasted cauliflower entrée.
4 EVENTS From book signings to chats by in-the-know style makers and trendsetters, the SaksWorks brand has been offering events as part of the draw for its members and guests. Plans for Greenwichspecific bookings are still in the planning stages, but count on some to have a sartorial twist. “I think you can expect pop-up shops featuring some interesting vendors,” says Fitzpatrick. saksworks.com Details were confirmed as of press time but are subject to change.
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York stores, Greenwich was one of the first places that came to mind. And I’m thrilled we were able to secure such a prime location right on Greenwich Avenue,” he says. In addition to redefining the
modern man’s wardrobe, Snyder has paved the way for brand collaborations. He applies his aesthetic to staples from brands that inspire him such as LL Bean, Champion and J Press. His easygoing style lends itself perfectly to his approach for classics with a modern twist. Be prepared to be swayed by signature sweater polos with modern details, camp collar shirts for easy vacation wear and farmto-yarn denim. toddsnyder.com
The quasi bar and check out counter has a gentlemans club feel.
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Spring is about bold post-pandemic trends—size, color and texture you will want to start dreaming about now.
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M ADEWE L L Dorset Blazer $175, White Plains, The Westchester, madewell.com
Curbside Ankle Jean, $238, Greenwich, Westport, intermix.com
Your basic denim will get a refresh with all the new shapes surfacing. Dip your toe in with a straight shape, rigid denim or take this season’s balloon shape for a ride.
AN I N E BI NG Sonja jean, $229, aninebing.com
AG OL DE Cherie Rigid High Rise Straight Leg Jean, $190, modaoperandi.com
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Tassels and strings are the latest evolution from last year’s crochet craze. Fringe crosses the personal style profile giving Western, BOHO and rock ‘n’ roll vibes.
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Fringe Pouch Bag, $1,495, Greenwich, therealreal.com
P I NKO Tweed Fringed Edge Dress, $394, farfetch.com
JO H ANNA O RT I Z Fringe Cotton Blend Midi Dress, $1,450, modaoperandi.com
CH RI STO P H E R K ANE Crystal Chain Tee, $395, Norwalk, White Plaines, bloomingales.com
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JIM M Y CH O O Suede Mules with Crystal Chains, $3,125, jimmychoo.com
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Bright, third-rock-from-the-sun colors were rocking the spring runway. From Altuzarra tie-dye reds to Chloe tangerine and golden yellows, warm colors are perfect for a post-pandemic boost to keep us feeling vibrant and happy!
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UL L A JO H NSO N Cut Out One Piece, $315, modaoperandi.com
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Coral Colored Stemware, $175, Greenwich, hoaglands.com
L AP I M A Lisa Red Solid Sunglasses, $493, us.lapima.com
T I BI Sporty Nylon Asymmetrical Balloon Skirt, $475, tibi.com
A.L .C. Blakely Dress, $495, Rye, New York, angelasedit.com
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Melinda Charm, $575, martinejewelry.com
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Pair sunny colors with their neighbors across the color wheel. They will ground the deep saturation by offering a cool contrast.
UL L A JO H NSO N Plisse Satin Peplum Top, $395, Greenwich, Westport intermix.com
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T HEORY Shaped Cardigan Navy, $395, Greenwich/ Westport, theory.com
V INCE Hand Crochet Grid Cardigan, $695, Greenwich/ Westport, vince.com
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CH LO E Leather Slide Sandal, $795, Norwalk, White Plains, nordstrom.com
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EXPLORING OUR MAJESTIC NATIONAL PARKS
by kim-marie evans photo gr aph by vener a alex androva
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ast year visits to national parks hit an all-time high. Millions of people in search of solitude and an escape from Covid took advantage of the 85 million acres of open land our collective backyard has to offer. The ease of access and the word “park” in the name might give some explorers a false sense of simplicity and ease. Unless you’re a hardcore backpacking type, navigating the vast wilds of a national park is best done using the buddy system and with preparation. The SOS button on my Subaru was my only buddy when I got my car stuck in the famously tricky mud of Utah with the sun setting and a flash flood moving in. I overestimated my abilities and the relative safety of marked trails and underestimated Mother Nature. I survived, my car did not. But don’t let that deter you. Simply take it as friendly warning. We should all make time to safely explore the expansive beauty our country has to offer—your heart and soul will thank you for it.
Arches National Park, Utah
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pick a park The National Park System is made up of 423 sites, only sixty-three have the “National Park” designation in their names
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If you’re not a hardcore backpacking type or just don’t want to figure out how to use yet another tech device, think about hiring a guide. One overthe-top option comes from GEOFFREY KENT, FOUNDER OF ABERCROMBIE & KENT. The famed explorer will shepherd twenty-two guests for a oncein-a-lifetime park experience through the wild and beautiful West this June. His branded Inspiring Expeditions have taken him to the heart of every continent except North America— until now. “I’m looking forward to finally exploring the ‘Serengeti of North America’ on game drives and hikes with wildlife biologists and expert local guides,” he says. Guests will arrive at each destination by private jet. From there, helicopters will ferry them deep into the parks and back to the plush confines of nearby Aman resorts. This itinerary includes more than just the national parks, but a similar or shorter itinerary can
be custom-created. The adventure will start in Napa at some of the most notable wineries opened exclusively for Geoffrey and his guests. Parks will include Arches National Park in Utah, Yellowstone and Grand Teton
National Parks in Wyoming and, of course, the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Guests will have access to sites not normally open to the public, float the Colorado River in style and spend time with local Native American tribes
price: $135,000 per person for double occupancy dates: June 1 through 12, 2022 Custom itinerary pricing varies—and does not include Geoffrey. abercrombiekent.com
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Until recently, luxury accommodations in or near the national parks have been few and far between. However, accommodations book up early. So, if you’re considering an adventure in the natural world this summer, the time to book is now. Here are a few of my favorites. UNDER CANVAS offers luxurious tents situated near some of the most popular parks— providing a lovely alternative to
do-it-yourself camping. Though I loved my stay at Under Canvas, there was a bit more “camping” than I bargained for. The only way to stay warm at night is to stoke your wood heater and there’s no electricity, so no hairdryer. undercanvas.com OPEN SKY in Zion opened last year with three safari-style tents, and it is adding seven this year, which will most definitely sell out. (Tents come with two of my favorite travel amenities— housekeeping and hairdryers.) stayopensky.com MONTAGE RESORTS just opened in Big Sky Montana and offers guestrooms, suites and residences. montagehotels.com
Some parks will be requiring reservations in 2022. For details go to recreation.gov. ACADIA NATIONAL PARK Download the National Parks App and save your itinerary for use offline.
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Buchanan fringed bed in gold washed linen; $4,198. Westport; serenaandlily.com
NeKeia Collection Nairobi pendant; $2,480. Laurent Lighting, Darien; laurentlighting.com
Tripolino L coffee table by Cristina Celestino; $5,505. editionsmilano.com
Francois silk brush fringe; to the trade. fschumacher.com
Venus gold mirror; $5,340. artemest.com
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Is pain, especially with age, normal?
Overall, no, but there are different types of pain. Exercise-induced soreness is normal, but true pain that comes from an injury to a joint or tissue is not normal. In addition to injuries, pain is common among aging athletes and from degenerative joints and tendons, but it still isn’t normal and should be addressed. How can someone decipher between occasional stiffness in muscles and joints and problematic pain?
KNOWING WHEN IT’S TIME TO SEE A DOCTOR FOR ACHES, PAINS AND INJURIES ISN’T ALWAYS AS STRAIGHTFORWARD AS WE WOULD LIKE. HERE’S HOW TO KNOW IT’S TIME TO SEE A DOCTOR.
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nderstanding what can be treated at home and what needs medical attention is key in keeping our bodies healthy and active. We checked in with Dr. Nicholas Sgrignoli, assistant
attending physician in Primary Sports Medicine at Hospital for Special
How does someone who is injured know when it’s time to see a doctor?
Loss of strength, function or the inability to put weight on joints means you want to see a doctor right away. Any injury with symptoms and pain that is getting worse after a few days you would also want to have looked at. A muscle strain can take two to four weeks to heal but after a few days the pain should dissipate and your function should significantly improve. Overall, if the injury is limiting your activity or daily functions, it’s a good idea to have it checked out.
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What are the signs that an injury may be a
know when it’s time to call someone like him. Primary sports medicine
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physicians are trained in primary care medicine with a specialty in nonoperative sports medicine. They help patients with injury diagnosis, rehab, pain management and with safely returning to sports and leisure activities while closely monitoring medical conditions.
severity of the injury or not necessarily?
Swelling and bruising are extremely common for breaks, with that said, there isn’t always a telling correlation. You could have a break with little bruising or a significant amount of swelling with no break. There are two types
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With age, we find that muscles and joints become stiffer and lose elasticity in tendons which can lead to higher injury rates. I usually tell people that normal stiffness lasts for no longer than 10-15 minutes and goes away once they have loosened up. Persistent stiffness, that lasts for more than an hour in the morning, is more of a concern because it can be correlated to an inflammatory issue. Swelling, redness or warmth of the joints are all also things to look out for that may be signs of a problem.
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HOW CAN WE PROACTIVELY AVOID INJURIES?
No. 1 WARM UP
Try to loosen up joints and muscles and break a small sweat before getting into a highintensity phase. Spend at least 15 minutes trying to utilize the muscle groups that you’ll be using during the faster paced portion of your workout.
No. 2 TAKE TIME FOR RECOVERY A lot of type-A athletes and highintensity recreational trainers don’t think about recovery. Taking at least one day off a week is beneficial for adults and taking at least two days off a week is helpful for younger athletes. Ensuring that you are getting proper sleep, nutrition and hydration is also key.
No. 3 GO SLOW
Start new activities slowly and have recovery days in between to assess how your body is responding to new activity. Don’t go from doing nothing to trying to run three to four miles. If you haven't run consistently, start with a walk or jogging training program.
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DON’T PUSH THROUGH PAIN
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Many athletes are familiar with pain and used to playing through it but it will only make injuries worse.
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INCORPORATE VARIETY INTO EXERCISE
With a mix of cardio, strength and balance exercises you will be less likely to encounter overuse injuries. Try alternating your workouts throughout the week.
“Loss of strength, function or the inability to put weight on joints means you want to see a doctor right away.” - DR. NICHOLAS SGRIGNOLI, HSS
of fractures: acute, which is sudden and typically occurs from a fall or sudden episode and stress, which is from overuse and repetitive motions like running or jumping. Acute fractures happen quickly, as opposed to stress fractures which get worse over days to weeks. With any injury, if pain is worsening and there is swelling or loss of function or pain during an activity it’s time to see a doctor. What common injuries are you seeing lately? What activities are causing them?
People have continued to be very active with racquet sports throughout Covid. Activities like paddle and pickleball can bring patients in with tennis elbow and golfer’s elbow. We are also seeing a lot of plantar fasciitis from people that are working from home and spending most of the day walking around the house barefoot. Does stretching before AND after exercising really matter?
There is actually no consistent research to show that stretching helps prevent injuries. With that said, a dynamic warm-up is definitely beneficial and important. You are much more likely to get hurt by jumping right into a sport with a cold, tight muscle. Any amount of stretching is most effective when your muscles are warm. So for a soccer player, doing lunges to activate muscles and work on lengthening as a warm up is better than just sitting down and doing a V-stretch. For those with tight muscles and asymmetric flexibility, stretching at the end of a sporting event would be best. One thing to note is that stretching should never be painful. You should feel the muscle but it shouldn’t hurt. I also don’t recommend bouncing, rather a slow controlled movement to release muscle tension.
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or the last sandwich you get on your way out for your travel,” THE says Drew, who has twenty years BE E F E ATE R of experience in restaurants Quarter pound in Manhattan, Chicago, New of roast beef with lettuce, tomato Haven and locally. and Alpen's unique Fortunately for Alpen Pantry Russian dressing on —drew nemetz owner, alpen pantry fans, Drew and his wife, Frannie black bread Willsey (whom he met while the pair worked at bartaco), have been careful to retain the nostalgic recipes. “We’re using all the same sandwich recipes and purveyors. We haven’t changed a thing in that department.” He receives daily deliveries of fresh bread, including the famous Germanstyle black bread. There’s also a special glutenfree Schar deli bread available for those who need to avoid gluten, as Frannie does, and many new gluten-free treats. They have added tuna salad and chicken salad to the menu and will be starting weekly sandwich specials with PB&Js and bologna for kids. Also new, Alpen A roast beef lovers dream come true • Stocking up the to-go orders will sell deli meats and cheeses by the pound and fresh loaves of bread, so people can stock up to make sandwiches at home. Once the weather’s warmer, the shop will be open on Sundays. There’s a cooler filled 23 Arcadia Road, Old Greenwich; with meats, cheeses, salads and other provi203-637-3818; alpenpantry.com sions for people to grab and go for the beach, or those who grew up in town, Alpen boating, picnics, etc. Drew is planning to offer Pantry is an institution, the original a “Summer Stack” service, where you call and gourmet sandwich shop with must-have let him know how many people you’re serving, and he’ll create a box of sandwiches, chips, provisions for a day at Tod’s Point. Who can salads and drinks to bring down to the beach. resist The Stilton or The Bomber on black bread? He can also accommodate catering orders for Not Drew Nemetz, who recently purchased the large or small groups. shop from longtime owner Gary Kelley. Drew Delivery will be available in the future; at has many childhood memories of eating the the moment, the best way to order is by phone favorite sandwiches in Old Greenwich and his or by stopping in. Like the shop itself, expect go-to is the Beefeater. “It’s the first sandwich customer service that’s old-school and personal. that you grab when you come back into town
“It’s the first sandwich that you grab when you come back into town or the last sandwich you get on your way out for your travel.”
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hef Geoff Lazlo and Greg Oshins have been sharing meals together for a long time, starting when they became best friends in the second grade at Brunswick. Many decades and two careers later, the Greenwich natives are teaming up on The Country Table in Glenville, a new retail arm of Geoff Lazlo Food (a boutique event and catering company) that they hope will become a community hub. A Culinary Institute of America graduate, Geoff honed his skills at Blue Hill and Gramercy
Tavern and locally at The Whelk and Mill Street Bar and Table, while Greg has a background in commercial real estate focusing on retail. Their culinary brainchild, The Country Table, is set in a historic-looking building on the Byram River and offers one-stop meal shopping for quick breakfasts and lunches as well as prepared foods you can bring home for dinner. “We know that our clients have a discerning taste and want fresh, healthy food, but we recognize that sometimes life is just too busy to wait,” says Greg. “We keep our grab-andgo cases filled with lots of fresh options, like our gourmet sandwiches, seasonal salads and prepared foods, so that we can take the stress out of everyone’s busiest times.”
Options range from the popular kale and cabbage salad (formerly on the menu at Mill Street), Greek salad, and make-your-own salad to hearty sandwiches like grown-up grilled cheese with Gruyere and pickled onions, muffuletta, Texas toast with house-smoked brisket, veggie pita, turkey-club quesadilla and more. You can bring home a whole roasted chicken or roasted Norwegian salmon and butternut squash soup, for instance, and dinner is ready. The Country Table has partnered with local purveyors, serving coffee from PATH Roasters in Port Chester and setting up an ice cream bar with select flavors from Penny Lick Ice Cream in Hastings-on-Hudson. “We are huge ice cream fans, and we weren’t willing to settle for anything less than amazing,” says Greg. “What impressed us most about Penny Lick was the freshness and simplicity of her ice cream—she only uses dairy from local cows and no artificial ingredients.” The Country Table also sells select products like apple-cidervinegar hot sauce from an orchard in Goshen. As the weather gets warmer, there will be outdoor seating by the river. Geoff and Greg plan to host some events in their new space, such as cooking demonstrations, wine and cheese tastings and small dinners. Says Greg, “Coming out of the pandemic, we’ve all been craving a sense of connection with our community, and we’re so proud to invite everyone to eat some great food and G enjoy themselves at our store.”
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GREAT OUTDOORS
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or many, Covid-19 changed the way to think about home. Fewer hours spent at the office meant more time to scrutinize walls, windows and willows. Less willingness to vacation or to entertain inside heightened the desire to gather outside. Combined with historically low interest rates for borrowers, the pandemic sparked an outdoor improvement boom. “People are putting a lot more stock now in having a beautiful
outside,” says Aili DiBonaventura, head appraiser at Fairfield Appraisal and a Realtor with William Pitt in Southport. The most popular splurges? Outdoor kitchens, TVs and surround sound; retractable awnings, firepits and pools. And landscaping, lots of landscaping. “The feeling is, if you’re going to be stuck at home, you might as well put in what you want.” Adding these outdoor features doesn’t come cheap. “If you put in a new pool, you’d want to landscape it and to hardscape it.” Hardscaping refers to landscaping features that aren’t alive, such as patios, arbors, columns and the like. “You might put in privacy screening with some plantings. You’d want to hide the mechanics. If you put in all that landscaping, what about irrigation? You might spend $150,000.” That’s not necessarily money that will be recouped in a sale down the road. Contrary to popular belief, adding landscaping and other outdoor features does not automatically increase a home’s value, DiBonaventura warns.
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The appraiser says that the biggest mistake homeowners make when adding outdoors is not knowing when to stop. “There is such a thing as too much. As a real-estate sales person, sometimes I’ll hear people look at a beautiful garden or outdoor kitchen and say, ‘Wow, that looks like a lot of work, (or) a lot of maintenance.’ When you look at all your monthly costs, that’s a lot to weigh into consideration.” Before embarking on a landscape/architecture project, hire a pro and make a plan. “You don’t have to implement it or you can do a few things at a time.” Match your landscaping with the style of your house and property. “We’re seeing a trend toward more contemporary colonials, which are very sparse in terms of moldings and trims. The landscaping that goes with those is much more sparse as well.” While the latest gadgetry and fun furnishings might help you and your family pass time at home now, try to remember life pre-pandemic. Did you spend
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summers at a vacation home or winter weekends skiing? If so, maybe your new outdoor living space will lose its luster. Once your project is complete, stay on top of maintenance. Landscaping “is programmed to grow and reproduce,” DiBonaventura says. “Keep it maintained or it will take over.” Ultimately, curb appeal is what makes a house stand out from another. “Sometimes I pull up and the buyer takes one look at the outside and says, ‘I’m not even getting out of the car,’ ” DiBonaventura says. Conversely, “There’s a wow factor when you walk up and the landscaping looks good, it’s well-maintained on the outside, and there’s a great patio in the backyard that’s not over-the-top. It tells a buyer that someone’s put thought into it.” All said, resale value needn’t dictate whether or not to do a project. DiBonaventura says, “At the end of the day, what do you want? You need to be happy. The next buyer will do what they want with the house.”
Comparing nearby projects
How much will outdoor improvements affect your home’s value? To find out, know thy neighbor, or at least their property. Regardless of how much you spend on a project, the fair market value of your home, as far as an appraiser is concerned, “is all about comparable sales.” Go online and search for recent home sales in your area. Find properties similar to yours, checking out things like square footage, number of bedrooms, baths and the like. Outdoor features like lush landscaping and posh patios might lure a buyer inside, but they won’t hoodwink an appraiser into upping the value. “As an appraiser, we look at market area analysis.” In other words, at similar homes a mile down the road, without too many glitzy features.
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ABOVE: Doyle foster pups, Nikki and Moppet • Patty with the family᾿s latest addition, Vera, at Tod᾿s Point
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say goodbye, the good work the dogs do makes it all worthwhile. (Seventy percent of Guiding Eyes foster homes are repeat raisers.) She also points out that the relationship doesn’t always end. One of her former fosters lives with a local blind woman, and she gets to visit with the dog several times a year. The need for service dogs goes beyond the Guiding Eyes program, with some service dogs working as companions to individuals with diabetes, epilepsy and other serious medical challenges. Training can uncover that dogs are better suited for other work, and Guiding Eyes will place dogs with appropriate organizations. Some of the Doyle dogs have gone on to work as K-9 dog sniffers or as studs for future service dogs. Foster families typically raise a puppy by working with trainers (sometimes virtually) and focus on socialization, exposure to a variety of settings and basic manners. Not sure you’re ready
Raising a puppy into adulthood for eventual adoption is a labor of love. For those with physical challenges, a service dog can provide independence, mobility and companionship. Guiding Eyes for the Blind gives individuals and families the opportunity to help make a huge impact in the lives of others by raising service puppies. Foster families take in pups from the organization and nurture them for between twelve and sixteen months. The volunteers socialize the pups, teach them basic manners and expose them to situations from shopping to airports. Patty Doyle is a Greenwich resident who is currently fostering her seventh pup for Guiding Eyes. In addition to raising five children, over the past decade she has been raising service dogs. Patty explains that although it’s hard to raise a puppy only to
to raise a puppy? Guiding Eyes offers interested volunteers other opportunities, such as hosting puppies for short visits to increase their socialization. guidingeyes.org
FOUR-FOOTED THERAPY Not everyone can tackle raising a service dog, but with some work a household pup can be trained as a therapy dog. It’s important to understand that there’s a difference between a service dog and a therapy dog. Therapy dogs have no special rights and are considered pets. They are allowed into places such as schools, libraries and nursing homes with prearranged visits. Training and certifying a dog to be a therapy dog takes some time and often comes down to temperament. Just as every pup raised through the Guiding Eyes won’t graduate into service placement, not every dog is well suited to be a therapy dog. The initial step to certification
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Whether it's through the pages of their new book or with in-person visits, Christina Pelligrino and Buster are making a big difference in the lives of kids.
RESOURCES No. 1 Bright and Beautiful Therapy Dogs evaluates, tests and trains owners and dogs as therapy teams. goldens-dog.org
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DYNAMIC DUO Helping kids overcome anxiety—one book at a time Author Christina Pellegrino used her transformative experiences with her therapy dog to help children talk about their struggles with fear in the children’s book Buster and The Brain Bully. This
GM: How did you become involved in working with therapy dogs? CP: It all happened pretty organically. The idea initially popped into my head when I would watch Buster at my grandmother’s dog-friendly assisted living facility. I saw how wonderful he was, so gentle, and most importantly, the joy he brought to the residents. Him just walking down the hall was all it took to make peoples’ day. He brought light into a place that’s often filled with sadness. From there, we were sponsored by VITAS, a hospice organization, and became a part of its Paw Pals program. We would visit patients at an assisted living facility along with one of its staff members. It was such a rewarding experience that I decided I wanted to get
officially certified, so we had freedom to visit different facilities. GM: Tell us about your experiences with Buster. CP: There have been so many unbelievable experiences. Buster adapts to the different environments so effortlessly, it truly amazes me. In the hospital setting, some of our most memorable experiences include helping a woman through a panic attack, watching an elderly man sit up for the first time in days leaving the doctor and family in amazement, helping a child through physical therapy, and visiting with cancer patients while they receive infusions. For our reading program at the library, we quickly developed our “regulars” who would come read to Buster every month. These visits are set up as one-on-one reading. In schools, we work with first, second, third and fourth graders. GM: If someone is inspired to have their dog certified, what suggestions do you have? CP: Expose them to as much as you can at an early age. It will only help prepare them. Develop a strong bond with your dog; this is incredibly important. Having a mutual trust will set you up to be a successful team. Dogs pick up on our energy, and the number one rule in therapy dog work is advocating for your dog. Not every environment will suit them, so you want to make sure it᾿s an enjoyable experience for everyone involved.
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Guiding Eyes for the Blind connects foster families with potential service dogs and also offers opportunities to people who may not want to foster but would like to volunteer in some capacity. guidingeyes.org
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Pet Partners is a national organization with chapters in central Connecticut and New York City that coordinates visits between owner/pet teams and patients in recovery, seniors, students and veterans. petpartners.org
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Port Chester Obedience Club provides Canine Good Citizen Certification and Therapy Dog Training. Dogs that obtain a CGC certificate can go on to obtain the AKC Community Canine certification, an advanced level of the CGC program. pcotc.org; akc.org
No. 6 Reading Education Assistance Dogs utilizes dog/owner therapy teams to help children improve literacy and communication skills. therapyanimals.org/read
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begins with basic dog training. Beyond good manners, a therapy dog typically requires advanced training. Organizations like Alliance for Therapy Dogs (ATD) require applicants to undergo a background check. After screening, applicants can apply for ATD membership and find a local tester/observer. The vetting process for ATD is thorough, and dogs must be evaluated to verify their qualifications. Videos of testing and a list of criteria is on the website, making the process transparent and easy to understand. ATD is just one of many certification options. Check out local dog training services and organizations like the American Kennel Club (AKC) for information on the Canine Good Citizen Certification process. If you’re looking to bring a therapy dog into a specific location, such as a nursing home or school, reach out to learn what certification it requires. therapydogs.com; akc.org
rhyming story, with heartwarming illustrations by Teresa Alberini, addresses anxiety through the eyes of a golden retriever. Christina and Buster work with facilities and organizations throughout the tri-state area visiting schools and hospitals. “This is a passion project for me, above anything else,” says Christina. “I really want to open up the mental health conversation— get people to be more comfortable talking about when they have that inner struggle and they’re not understanding what’s happening, especially as a kid.” We asked the author about getting Buster started as a therapy dog and their journey together.
Dog Gone Smart in Norwalk offers an Intermediate/Canine Good Citizen course and a Therapy Dog Skills class that allows dogs to acclimate to walkers, wheelchairs and crutches. doggonesmart.com
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GO GREEN! The annual Greenwich St. Patrick’s Day Parade will start at Town Hall at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 20. Dress the kids in green, settle into a prime spot on the Avenue and watch the local groups march on by. The day promises plenty of Celtic music, food and good Irish cheer for all!
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COOKING WITH KIDS March is National Nutrition Month. A great way to teach the kids about eating well is to visit a local farmers’ market. Two fun options are Mike’s Organic Warehouse and the Sam Bridge Winter Farmers’ Market, running every Saturday through May 8. Roam the stands and aisles
with the kids and let them help you pick out fresh and healthy ingredients to bring home for some cooking fun. Also, on Wednesday, March 30, the Greenwich Botanical Center will host an interview with Dr. Katie Takayasu. Dr. Takayasu is an integrative medicine doctor who has a passion for plant-rich cooking and finding life balance. greenwichbotanicalcenter.org;
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booking a reservation at any one of the participants. Many of our go-to’s have plenty of outdoor dining (and heaters when necessary), and spring is the perfect time to enjoy an al fresco meal. And be sure to get your tickets for the Restaurant Week kickoff party at the JHouse on March 29. greenwichrestaurantweek.com
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There are plenty of ways to get artsy in town. One easy way is to grab a cup of coffee and stroll the Avenue, visiting our local galleries that offer everything from pop art to classic paintings and sculptures. To meet other families in town who share an appreciation for the art world, join the Bruce Contemporaries. Throughout the year the group hosts art events at the museum as well as offsite locations. You can also head to backcountry for some spectacular contemporary art. Book a visit to The Brant Foundation Art Study Center. The center offers a variety of stunning exhibitions throughout the year. Currently it is hosting a survey of paintings by artist David Salle. Admission is free but reservations are required. And to spark your little ones’ creativity, art programs for kids can be found at the Greenwich Art Society. brucecontemporaries.org; brantfoundation.org; greenwich-artsociety.org
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reenwich residents David Weisbrod and Margaret Esme Simon were recently honored at Indian Harbor Yacht Club for their outstanding leadership in the nonprofit community. More than 120 guests were there to support the National Executive Service Corps (NESC), which provides affordable, high-quality business-consulting services to nonprofit organizations. The dinner was cochaired by Sue and Mike Bodson, and the featured speaker was Stephen Heinz, president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. The MC for the evening was the always hilarious Jane Condon, and the Yale Alley Cats wowed the guests with their amazing pipes. NESC was founded in 1977 by Frank Pace, Jr., a Greenwich resident, and David Rockefeller. nesc.org »
1 (standing) Sandy Litvack, Leslie Lee, Albert and Robbie Kestnbaum, Jim Lockhart, Lin and Tracy Lavery (seated) Joanna Swomley, The Hon. Charles Lee, Cricket Lockhart 2 Barbara Linder 3 Ken Bartels, Jane Condon 4 Marv Berenblum 5 Alessandra Messineo Long, Dr. Kim Nichols, Sue Bodson 6 Mike Bodson, Karen Royce, Brian Ruane 7 Stephen Heinz, Debbie and Jim Lash 8 Margaret and David Weisbrod 9 Dr. Kim Nichols, Chris Cabanillas
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ore than 200 people attended the Historical Society’s History in the Making award benefit at the Belle Haven Club. The evening honored Barbara and Ray Dalio for their philanthropy and commitment to a future that makes the world a better place. Indra Nooyi, former chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, and a previous honoree, presented the award virtually, with Haley Rockwell Elmlinger, Historical Society cochair. Businessman, investor, philanthropist and historian David Rubenstein interviewed the Dalios on stage with questions concerning their approach to philanthropy. The crowd certainly left informed and inspired. greenwichhistory.org G
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1 Ling and Pete under the mezzanine at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester 2 Giancarlo Aspesi, Angel Arce, Nick Niven, Torre Hahn, Alex Clark, Karina Jaramillo, Stephanie Smario, Lindsay Ling Fong, Jill Schwabe, Amanda Smith, Nick Carriero, Ryan Curcuruto, John Morelli, Chris Rosa 3 The band that played at the reception: Ryan Liatsis, Pete Kozak, Dan Rappaport, Travis Paparoski, Natasha DiMarco, Brad Pfeifer, Scott Hogan, Jon Schmarak 4 The newlyweds take the stage 5 The bride and groom with Eddie Fong and Shannon Kennedy 6 Jon Schmarak, the groom, Travis Paparoski 7 The couple exchanging vows, while Nick Carriero looks on.
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Three weeks after the 2020 election the land was still in psychic disarray: President Trump was still peddling election fraud conspiracy theories, still mounting dubious legal challenges in several states, still whipping up the passions of his faithful by proclaiming, without evidence, that he had won reelection “in a landslide.” But suddenly there were signs that, like a bouncy castle after a small-town fair, the Trump Circus was beginning to deflate. On November 23 Trump himself declared that “in the best interest of our country” he,d commence protocols to hand over power to Joe Biden. At last he had bowed to reality. News media duly reported the harmonious development: “Trump Recognizes Transfer of Power,” read the MSNBC headline. "No, he doesn't. Not for a New York minute,” the political historian Chris Whipple countered on social media, against the tide of the moment. “The only thing Trump has agreed to is to go through the motions of a transition. This is not even close to being over.” Asked how he thought things would play out, Whipple gave a one-word answer: “Painfully.” TV newspeople knew the Naudet brothers, Jules and Gédéon, by reputation. In 2002 they made the extraordinary documentary 9/11—a film that began when Jules, standing on a street corner with some firemen in downtown Manhattan, heard a jet flying suspiciously low. He aimed his camera upward just in time to capture American Airlines Flight 11 slamming into the North Tower. Whipple says, “I thought for about thirty seconds and said, ‘I’m in.’” Once they got down to work, the Naudets were astonished by Whipple’s abilities. His research was “unprecedented” in their experience. And then the way he asked questions: “He remembers everything about his interview subjects,” Jules says, so that he can correct them on the spot. Finally, there’s his winning blend of bluntness, humor and charm. “He asks tough questions for sure, but he’s remained incredibly close with a lot of those people—chiefs of staff and CIA directors. It’s a credit to his honesty and integrity.” Baker adds, “People trust him. He’s got opinions, obviously, but he’s not a partisan. He’s not hiding some ulterior motive. He just wants to hear his subjects’ stories, wants to give them a chance to explain Washington as they see it.” The documentary, titled The President’s Gatekeepers, aired on Discovery Channel in 2013. “When we finished the documentary I was proud of it,” Whipple says, “but I thought it barely scratched the surface of this great untold story. I thought it cried out for a book.” (The Spymasters, too, had a first life as a documentary, made with the Naudets and CBS producing legend Susan Zirinsky; it debuted on Showtime in 2015. The book deepens and updates the film.) »
Chris Whipple quietly has become an indispensable observer of American power. “He’s established himself as a premier journalist and historian of the White House as well as the intelligence community,” says Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent for the New York Times. “His books are not dense or academic. They’re lively and people-oriented. They’re about how actual people operate the levers of government.” Whipple has written two books so far. The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency (2017), a chronicle of the “worst job in Washington,” put him on the map as a political writer; The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future (2020), which Tom Brokaw described as “nonfiction le Carré,” cemented his reputation as a persistent digger into inaccessible stories, a slipper behind Washington’s locked doors. “So much of Washington reporting is cloaked in anonymity,” Baker says. “He’s got these people on the record.” Strange to say, then, that Whipple’s writing career happened accidentally. One day in 2011 Jules Naudet, a French-American documentary filmmaker, called him (at the recommendation of a mutual friend, Vanity Fair editor of creative development David Friend) to ask if he’d partner in a film about White House chiefs of staff. “My brother and I have always been fascinated with politics,” Naudet says, “but we knew we didn’t have the chops to do this kind of interview,” which would require a deep-tissue knowledge of American history and politics. Whipple was then a veteran news producer at ABC, nearing age sixty, looking vaguely for something else to do. All
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hostage crisis. “But I’m convinced that things might have been different if Jack Watson had been chief of staff from day one.” Carter himself stubbornly refused to concede this point to Whipple, “but no one else in his administration would disagree with me.” Whipple considers James A. Baker III the model White House chief. (Leon Panetta also gets a “gold standard” rank; Panetta went on to comparable success as CIA director.) Not that Baker liked the job; nobody does. The hours are terrible. The velocity is terrible. The infighting is terrible. “It’s brutal on you, it’s brutal on your family. And nothing, nothing, nothing, ever comes easy,” Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s first chief of staff, told Whipple. “It’s the toughest, most pressurepacked job one can have,” said Jim Jones, Lyndon Johnson’s second chief. “I was twenty-nine years old. I felt fifty-nine.”
Whipple’s book shows how presidencies rise or fall depending on who holds the job of “president’s son-of-a-bitch.” Jimmy Carter, an infamous micromanager, thought he could do without a chief of staff. Two years in he realized he’d erred, but compounded the error by installing the unsuitable Hamilton Jordan. “Jordan would hide when people came to deal with problems or ask him for help. He would literally hide,” Whipple says. “He wouldn’t return phone calls to Capitol Hill,” a fatal flaw. The eminently capable Jack Watson took over, but too late: the Carter presidency, so promising at the outset, was failing. Perhaps inevitably, given the intractable problems of the day—inflation, stratospheric interest rates, the Iran
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“Baker tried a couple of times to quit,” Whipple notes. “Reagan wouldn’t let him. Then Baker finally came up with this cockamamie idea of swapping jobs with the treasury secretary, Don Regan. It was a most disastrous job swap in political history. In my view, the Iran-contra scandal never would have happened on Jim Baker’s watch. But it almost immediately bubbled up when Don Regan was in the chair.” Iran-Contra, in which the United States sold arms to a bellicose Iran in exchange for hostages, then illegally funneled the profits to “freedom” fighters in Nicaragua, nearly resulted in Reagan’s impeachment. “You just can’t overstate the importance of the position,” Whipple says. “It really is true, I think, that a White House chief of staff can define every presidency.” The public understands the job but dimly. “Without a great chief of staff, a president frankly doesn’t know what he is doing,” Robert Reich, Clinton’s secretary of labor, explained to Whipple. A president knows what he wants to do, but a chief of staff knows how to get it done. Jim Baker was smooth, courtly and iron-fisted. It was Baker who tamed the fractious bunch of ideologues around Ronald Reagan; Baker who performed the vital task of telling Reagan bitter truths: For example, that he would have to raise taxes—against his every instinct—to stem the steep revenue losses caused by the 1981 tax cuts. Baker told Whipple, “I will never forget him taking his glasses off, throwing them on the desk, and saying, ‘OK, dammit, I’m going to do it—but it’s the wrong thing to do.’” The Whipple prose style is brisk but effervescent. It manages at once to convey political nuance and to entertain (see The Gatekeepers’ story
of Reagan, the Queen, and the farting horse). Perhaps for this reason the book made both the New York Times bestseller list and required reading lists at Yale. Curiously, it also made the New York gossip columns. Richard Johnson, writing in the Post: “Dick Cheney and Jim Baker got hold of an advance copy of Chris Whipple’s book, The Gatekeepers, which they devoured—along with some unlucky quail—during their annual hunting trip at Baker’s ranch in Texas.” The Gatekeepers came out two months after Donald Trump took office. It carried this prescient warning: “Trump is likely to have several chiefs… his presidency cannot succeed unless he gives them the authority to do the job.” It didn’t, because he didn’t. Trump burned through four chiefs, none of whom could rein in what an anonymous White House staffer called “his worst inclinations.” Indeed Trump’s last chief, Mark Meadows, couldn’t find a “worst inclination” he didn’t adore. On January 6, 2021, in an act rich with symbolism, Meadows held Trump’s coat as Trump fired up a crowd itching to march on the Capitol. “Meadows was the chief that Trump wanted all along and could never find, the ultimate sycophant,” Whipple says. “To me, Meadows was not so much a chief of staff as he was a kind of glad-handing maitre ’d.” He adds, for good measure,“There used to be a pretty healthy competition for the title of worst chief of staff in history, but Meadows owns it by a country mile. He’s done laps around the opposition.” Meadows should have read The Gatekeepers, as Biden’s chief of staff, Ron Klain, did. Asked recently on Ezra Klein’s podcast for a book
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recommendation, Klain said, “The Gatekeepers by Chris Whipple is the definitive book on White House chiefs of staff … It’s a book I’ve looked at time and time again—the most important book in this field, as far as I’m concerned.”
“I had friends telling me, ‘I hate you for making me like Dick Cheney.’” But The Spymasters is a disturbing book. We learn about assassination plots, coup orchestrations and oodles of mischief, some of it aimed at our own citizens. Lyndon Johnson hounded the CIA to conduct illegal domestic surveillance on Vietnam war protesters, and director Richard Helms caved to the pressure. Helms, who died in 2002, evolves in Whipple’s hands as a superb character—an old-school spy, dry martini in one hand, cigarette in the other, doing his best to fend off the sketchy demands of presidents. From Helms’ widow, Cynthia, Whipple learns just how badly the Kennedys wanted the CIA to put an end to Fidel Castro. She told him, “Robert Kennedy was out at the agency, and he was obsessed by it. Dick said, ‘You can’t see the lashes on my back, but they are there.’” Helms would nod politely to Kennedy— then drag his feet. Helms had to be blunter with Richard Nixon. When Watergate began to unravel, Nixon tried to rope the CIA into the cover-up: Couldn’t the agency say the Watergate burglary was a covert operation, and thus block the FBI’s pesky delving? Helms rebuffed the invitation to obstruct. Nixon then had his chief of staff and “lord high executioner,” H.R. Haldeman, threaten Helms with exposing CIA secrets about President Kennedy’s assassination. What secrets, exactly? Haldeman wrote later that Nixon seemed to be suggesting a CIA connection to JFK’s murder. (This popular conspiracy theory remains just a theory, though no less than RFK suspected it was true.) Helms did not yield to the presidential armtwisting; soon after, Nixon summoned him to Camp David and fired him. “Helms arguably not only sank the Nixon presidency,” Whipple says, “but saved the CIA by not going along with that order.” Whipple tells of CIA triumphs: the Cuban missile crisis, the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001—a victory tragically annulled, many would argue, by
In early January we were supposed to meet Whipple on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where he lives with his wife, Cary. But Covid’s Omicron variant was raging, so we settled for a Zoom encounter instead. Ever the honest broker, he peers into the camera and says, “You’re not going to win any awards for your background.” True. We are a dark smudge floating in a fuzz of pale light. Whipple, for his part, cuts a crisp figure, both in terms of lighting and personal presentation. At sixty-eight, he has a full head of chestnut brown hair with dignified filaments of gray, clear green eyes, and sculpted features that have softened only a little with age. He’s dressed in a blue blazer and a dark blue dress shirt open at the collar. The room he’s sitting in is elegant—crown moldings, built-in bookshelves, antique mantelpiece painted Colonial green—and there’s a lamplit reading chair behind him, with a stack of papers on a side table and two huge piles of books on the floor within grasping distance. We are talking about The Spymasters. The book is a miracle of access. Whipple persuaded every living CIA director—Mike Pompeo and Gina Haspel excepted—to unburden themselves to him. Not that it was easy. George Tenet canceled three times, and nearly bolted when Whipple finally did get him seated: “How do I know you aren’t going to screw me?” Whipple said, “Call Leon Panetta. Call Dick Cheney. Ask if I was fair.” Cheney is popularly viewed as dour and dark, but somehow he is revealed by Whipple and the Naudets as (gasp) open and witty. Jules Naudet recalls,
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said. “They may be multiple. Al Qaeda’s intention is the destruction of the United States.” Whipple recounts, “Cofer Black pounded his fist on the table and said, ‘We have to go on a war footing now!’” After the meeting, in the West Wing parking lot, Black and Blee high-fived, convinced that they’d made their case. So what happened next? Whipple sighs. “Condi Rice didn’t get it. She blew it off.” Today Tenet wonders what else he might have done. “I asked him at one point, was there ever a moment during all this time, that you blamed yourself for 9/11?” Whipple says. “And, if you could see him, he just practically exploded out of his chair. He was twitching and shifting. ‘Well, look,’ he said finally. ‘I still look at the ceiling at night about a lot of things—and I’ll keep them to myself forever.’” One of those things might be the CIA’s vastly wrong assessment of Iraq’s WMDs. (Iraq had long since stopped making and stockpiling WMDs.) Bush used that assessment—and Colin Powell, to Powell’s eternal regret—to make his case for war in Iraq. “A slam dunk,” Tenet called it. “A lot of people argue that Bush was hell-bent on invading with or without that,” Whipple says. “But there’s no question that the erroneous CIA assessment of WMDs, and Colin Powell’s presentation of it at the UN, made it possible for Bush to launch that invasion. The argument would have been much more difficult without that assessment.” Whipple illustrates the moral shakiness inherent in the job of CIA director. In one powerful instance, we see Leon Panetta at Arlington National Cemetery to bury operative Elizabeth Hanson, slain with six colleagues in a 2009 suicide bombing in Afghanistan. At the graveside, word reaches him that a Predator drone has just fixed the bombing’s mastermind in its crosshairs. “Unfortunately,” Panetta tells Whipple, “he had family and wife and children around him.” Panetta is a devout Catholic who carries a rosary with him; The Spymasters documentary shows him kneeling in prayer at his church. But he decides to take the shot. “It did involve collateral damage,” he admits somberly. “But we got him.” After excruciating decisions like these, he says, you “just hope that ultimately God agrees with you.”
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our decision to stay and rebuild. But Whipple does not skimp on the dark deeds: the toppling of democratic governments in Iran and Guatemala— viewed as home runs in their day but as disasters in hindsight; the plot to kill Castro; the alleged plot to kill Patrice Lumumba, prime minister of the Congo; the ouster of Diem in South Vietnam; the Pinochet coup in Chile. These and other shady entanglements came tumbling out in 1975, before the U.S. Senate’s Church Committee on intelligence matters. Sen. Frank Church, in apparent exasperation, called the CIA “a rogue elephant” while letting presidents completely off the hook. An amused Whipple remarks, “Far from being a rogue elephant— although the CIA has certainly been involved in plenty of bad stuff over the decades—it tends to be more of a check on rogue presidents. Richard Helms was a great example of that.” Whipple excels at putting flesh and blood on his spymasters. There’s William Casey, known as “Mumbles” because nobody can understand him, using his necktie as a napkin “and running covert wars all over the world.” There’s George H.W. Bush, beloved for rescuing the agency from an era of scandal, asking incoming President Carter to keep him on as director. Carter unwisely declines, and history is altered: Bush runs with Reagan in 1980, defeating Carter and Mondale, and eventually becomes president himself and the father of a president. (Carter’s choice of CIA successor, Stansfield Turner, turns out to be a bust.) George Tenet, after his initial hesitation, consented to five interviews with Whipple. It’s tough stuff. Tenet presided over the CIA as terrorist chatter reached a deafening pitch before 9/11. His hair famously “on fire,” he tried in vain to jolt awake a complacent White House. Whipple tells this story as no one else has. In the summer of 2001, Richard Blee, head of the CIA’s Bin Laden Unit, began tracking “a cascade of threats.” He thought, “Oh, fuck, it’s coming,” and barged into counterintelligence chief Cofer Black’s office. “Okay, the roof ’s falling in,” he told Black. On July 10, with Tenet, they went to see President Bush’s national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice: “The attacks will be spectacular,” they
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Whipple’s mother, Jane, had her own stories. At Sarah Lawrence, where she would later head Continuing Education, she studied with noted historians Maxwell Geismar (Mark Twain: An American Prophet) and Joseph Lash (Eleanor and Franklin). “Thanks to her friendship with Lash, she was a regular at Eleanor Roosevelt’s teas at the White House while my dad was Life’s Pentagon correspondent during World War II,” Whipple says. “Their Scottie played with [the Roosevelts’ Scottie] Fala on the White House lawn.” Whipple’s sister, Ann Marr, “the smart one in the family,” followed their mother into education. Until her recent retirement, she headed the lower school of Convent of the Sacred Heart in Greenwich. At Yale, Whipple learned from America’s best. One mentor was William Zinsser, the mortal enemy of verbal “clutter” who wrote the classic guide On Writing Well. “Bill Zinsser made me seriously reconsider whether I wanted to do any writing whatsoever,” Whipple says. “He was a ruthless taskmaster. To this day, when I sit down to write, I see him perched on my shoulder, striking every unnecessary word.” Another mentor was Thomas Powers, who’d won a Pulitzer in 1971 for his newspaper coverage of a bomb set off by the Weather Underground in Greenwich Village. Powers went on to nonfiction renown as the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), considered one of the best books ever written about the CIA. When Powers learned Whipple was working on The Spymasters, he was surprised and pleased: “Surprised because he had spent so much time doing other things first, and pleased that the subject was going to get serious attention,” he writes us. “As a rule there are very, very few writers and journalists who devote themselves to difficult and factually dense subjects.” No doubt Powers could see, when he read the book in manuscript, that his student had learned the master’s old lessons: “Don’t bring passionate convictions, but curiosity … Find out what people are like, what they worry about, how they feel about the task at hand… Remember that every issue of the day has a long history; know everything that can be known … Do the work of really digging into something important,
As Whipple talks, we are scanning his living room. We spy, in the top nook of an arched bookcase, an Emmy Award, and this reminds us there’s a reason why he arrived so full-blown as a political historian. Three prior careers laid the groundwork—print journalist, network TV producer and filmmaker. But we need to go back further. Whipple grew up in Old Greenwich’s Lucas Point, in a house formerly occupied by the journalist-historian Hendrik van Loon. In the 1930s, from a cluttered desk in that house, the Dutch-born van Loon warned America of the impending fascist threat. In a neat case of professional symmetry, a Washington correspondent for Life magazine with the poetic byline A.B.C. Whipple bought the house in 1955. Cal Whipple, as he was known, made journalism history in 1943 when he pressed wartime censors to reverse their ban on publishing a Life photograph taken in New Guinea: it showed three dead American soldiers half-buried in the sands of Buna Beach. The press was not permitted to show our dead. But in this case, President Roosevelt himself made the call, saying the public “ought to be able to see their own boys as they fall in battle”—a decision that put an end to wartime photographic censorship. Cal Whipple went on to become editor of Life’s international editions, executive editor at Time-Life Books, and a historian specializing in maritime books. Did his son have any choice but to follow? “I caught the bug around my father’s dinner table, talking about stories that Dad had just put to bed as an editor at Life in its glory days,” Chris says. A parade of nonfiction legends made its way to Lucas Point: Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring; Walter Lord, who wrote the definitive Titanic Chronicle A Night to Remember; James Morris (later Jan Morris, after gender reassignment surgery), the virtuoso travel writer; Barbara Tuchman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian; Alfred Eisenstaedt, the photographer who shot the iconic “V-J Day in Times Square”; and close family friend Roy Rowan, a Life reporter and editor who covered everything from Mao’s Long March to President Kennedy’s assassination.
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like how the Republican Party took over the South, or why Baptists deny climate change, or what command of a drone plane does to the soul.” And above all, “It’s the story, not the facts, that make the point. A story is what you’re after.” Whipple’s first job out of Yale was writing for Foreign Policy magazine under the blustery, combative, egotistical Richard Holbrooke, now remembered as the gifted diplomat who brought peace to the Balkans. “I once said to somebody, ‘Yes, I worked for Dick Holbrooke for ten years, from 1975 to 1976,’” Whipple says. “It was challenging, it was brutal—but he had this contagious enthusiasm for journalism, for politics, for foreign policy, and all of that rubbed off.” Next Whipple spent eight years reporting for Life. He covered wars in El Salvador and Lebanon; famine in Somalia; Desmond Tutu in the final years of South African apartheid; a hunger strike in Northern Ireland in which ten political prisoners died; and mercifully lighter fare, like tennis star Bjorn Borg at his peak. In 1986 Whipple crossed over to television as a producer for 60 Minutes. For his first story, he flew to Hawaii to court Imelda Marcos, the newly exiled first lady of the Philippines known for her lavish ways. “Imelda sat down at the piano and started belting out ‘Don’t Fence Me In.’ I picked up the phone and called Diane Sawyer in New York and I said, ‘Diane, listen to this! How soon can you get here?’” Not soon enough; Whipple had to start interviewing without her. Back in New York, Mike Wallace and producer Don Hewitt—towering but notoriously difficult figures at CBS—had read the interview transcript and were waiting for Whipple. “I walked in and said, ‘Don, listen, you probably can’t tell from the transcript, but there’s a moment in that interview where she’s talking about the Philippines and she gets a little misty-eyed. She doesn’t quite lose it, but she’s really emotional.’ He looked at Wallace and looked at me and said, ‘Kid, if you were any good, she woulda cried.’” In 1991 ABC hired Whipple away from CBS to produce investigative stories for Primetime Live, a 60 Minutes competitor. A 1993 piece, “Morgan Medical,” a hidden camera exposé about physician malfeasance at a medical clinic, won Whipple an Emmy. Team coverage of September 11 won him a second. But when Jules Naudet called, he was ripe for a change. One problem. Whipple’s political Rolodex was thinner than the Naudets might have supposed. How on earth would he get, say, Dick Cheney’s home address? Cheney had been Gerald Ford’s chief of staff long before he was George W. Bush’s sinister “vice.” “My wife, Cary, who is really indispensable to all of this, went online,” Whipple recalls. “She came back twenty minutes later and said, ‘I’ve got it, Cheney’s address.’ I said, ‘Where’d you find it?’ And she said, ‘Warcriminals.org.’ Even Cheney thought that was funny.”
there, it seemed to spell the end of Donald Trump. A year later the Lie had gained such traction that Republican politicians who rejected it risked the Orwellian fate of being cast out of the fold. Liz Cheney was cast out—stripped of a Congressional leadership role and ejected from the Wyoming Republican Party. More disturbingly, 71 percent of the Republican rank-and-file considered Joe Biden’s presidency illegitimate, leaving Biden to govern a bitterly divided country whose more extreme elements were—are—rumbling about civil war and the need to shed blood. Ill fares the land, and Whipple is writing a book about it. The Fight of His Life: The Inside Story of Joe Biden’s White House, due out in October from Scribner, will cover the wild transition and the first year of the Biden presidency. “The 2020 election, in the midst of a lethal pandemic with the country coming apart at the seams, was the most consequential of my lifetime,” Whipple says. “The Trump to Biden transition was the most contentious and dangerous since the Civil War.” (Unlike the previous books, this one will have no foregrounding documentary. The Naudets are off with Whipple’s son, Sam, making a film whose explosive subject remains under wraps for now.) Peter Baker says Whipple’s Biden project will be difficult. “The advantage he had in The Gatekeepers and The Spymasters is that he was dealing with people whose time in government had come and gone, and they were willing to be more open about their experiences, without worrying about immediate consequences. People in the Biden White House are going to worry about speaking on the record, about being candid. That’s going to be a real challenge for him. But he’s super talented and super smart, so I have no doubt he’ll find a way to produce a valuable and gripping account.” Whipple says he has found important untold stories. What concerns him is the news cycle’s headlong rush. Writing a book about fast-moving events, he says, is “like trying to design an airplane in mid-flight.” New revelations geyser up almost daily. As we write, news is breaking of an executive order from December 2020—unsigned—instructing the secretary of defense to “seize, collect, retain and analyze all machines, equipment, electronically stored information and material records” from the election. We are left to wonder how close we came to a total democracy meltdown. Even institutionalist Mike Pence seemed to mull over going along with the insanity—by refusing to certify the election—until Dan Quayle shamed him back from the brink: “Forget it. Put it away.” Early on, it seemed Biden might escape the Trump-world force field: He’d presided over an impressive vaccine rollout, a popular stimulus plan and strong employment numbers. Then the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan damaged his administration’s aura of competence. Inflation rose, stocks fell. Biden’s approval numbers sank to Trumpian depths. And Trump himself was poised for a comeback, the GOP firmly behind him. “Biden now faces an angry, authoritarian party, in thrall to a cult of personality, that waits for a second chance to wreck democracy,” Whipple says. “How could anyone with a political bone in his body not want to G write about this presidency?”
The continuing pain that Whipple predicted after the 2020 election is still very much with us. Trump’s Big Lie led 2,500 rowdies to storm the Capitol on January 6, 2021, an event so grotesque that, for a moment
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Few things speak to a new lease on life like the annual migration from the great indoors to the greater outdoors. Now that the days are growing longer and warmer, we’re coming back to life along with the perennials from seasons past. Our hunter-gatherer ancestors roamed for miles to find enough food to sustain them and their tribe in hostile environments. Here in the third year of the pandemic, however, we need only step out the back door armed with hand trowels and gardening hats to sustain our bodies but also reinvigorate our minds and soothe our souls. This spring, landscape architects and designers across Fairfield County are responding to homeowners’ interests— not in manicured lawns and showcase gardens but in sustainability and doing what’s best for the environment. These professionals are ditching the formality of boxwood borders and orderly flower beds for unmade beds, free-ranging meadows, native plantings and water in any number of forms. They’re also designing large, handsome vegetable garden structures and offering a range of options for helping homeowners become increasingly self-sufficient and truly at home on the range—even if it’s the suburban range. greenwichmag.com
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One sign of the new informality is the open meadows alive with swaying grasses, vibrant wildflowers and pollinator plants that attract songbirds, bees and other beneficial insects. On a less than an acre of land in Westport, Jay Petrow of Petrow Designs created an open meadow of wild grasses—Korea feather grass and fountain grass—that resembles an impressionist painting but one that changes colors as the seasons change. It covers just a 30’ by 30’ section of the owners’ backyard but looks like a bigger planting than it is. “You don’t need to eliminate an acre of grass—you can start with just a small area,” says Petrow, who in the off-season creates abstract expressionist paintings that at times are informed by his meadow designs. “Late in the day in the winter when the sun is in that golden time, it hits these grasses and the colors come through. The grasses add texture and color and movement in the wind and can look good through much of the year.” Other landscape designers and professional gardeners report requests for elements that satisfy an almost primitive impulse. “The proper term I think is probably ‘homesteading,’ although I think most of our clients don’t think of themselves as homesteaders,” notes John Carlson of Homefront Farmers in Redding. Carlson’s company builds and maintains vegetable gardens as well as other forms of selfsufficiency, “But in fact that’s what we’re doing when we add beekeeping and maple sugaring, and chicken cooping and mushrooming. We’re just expanding the way they can produce food at home." Even traditional architectural firms that offer landscaping services are loosening their grip on
Landscape trends are leaning away from the perfectly manicured boxwoods in favor of natural grasses and vegetable gardens that allow homeowners to live off the land.
tradition in a bow to Mother Nature. New Canaan architectural firm, Wadia Associates designs formal mansions frequently informed by classic British estates, with formal landscapes to match. (As if to verify the firm’s commitment to authenticity, Prince Charles, a champion of architectural preservation, contributed the preface to Dinyar Wadia’s coffee table volume, New Classicists: Wadia Associates, Residential Architecture of Distinction.) The firm’s partial transition away from contained formal gardens reflects a growing sensitivity among homeowners to conservation and a greater appreciation of land and space. Something new that Wadia clients are asking for is a “live roof ”—flat, grassed surfaces, over a series of drainage systems, that aids thermal regulation below and makes that part of the home blend naturally into the landscape.
“I think the phenomenon of Covid has reminded us that space is a luxury,” Wadia says. “For a long time people were moving away from backcountry in Greenwich and now the desirability of having that kind of land is quite high. They’re also looking for more ways that they can engage with the environment organically, literally and figuratively. We have a lot of clients who are asking for greenhouses and gardens—not a formal, boxwood-framed garden but a vegetable garden.”
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top left: Mark Finlay’s entry design with overflowing greenery. above and left: James Doyle Designs’ created suburban homesteading where clients could grow veggies and raise chickens. right: Homefront Farmers’ designed an enclosed garden surrounded by bright florals.
Even more formal estates are embracing, in Wadia’s words, “a degree or rural sensibilities.” For a large stone manor, a greenhouse used for temperate plants and as a nursery overlooks a grid of raised flower and vegetable beds set between broad, gravel and slate paths.
TOP LEFT PHOTO COURTESY OF MARK FINLAY; CHICKEN COUP AND CHIKEN BY ALEGRA ANDERSON; ENCLOSED GARDEN COURTESY OF HOMEFRONT FARMERS
During World War II, the U.S. government rationed staples and asked citizens to plant “Victory Gardens.” Some 20 million answered the patriotic call, producing fruits and vegetables for themselves and their families. It’s telling that residential architects and landscape designers today are designing home herb and vegetable patches—“Pandemic Victory Gardens,” if you will—on their own properties. Southport architect Mark Finlay, whose firm designs 10,000- and 20,000-square-foot mansions, had built for his wife a three-section garden structure of raised beds on a side portion of their property. Andrew Tyrrell of Black Rock Compost Company in Bridgeport custom-built the 20’-by20’ structure out of rot- and insect-resistant white cedar, which is completely enclosed in 1”-by-1” black deer fencing. Tyrrell’s company also manages the composting for the garden year-round. “It’s a big garden, so I designed it like a clerestory style, like a church, so the tomatoes and zucchinis are in the middle section and in the wings herbs and lettuces that grow low,” Finlay explains. The center section is nin feet high, the wings seven feet high. Deer fencing covers the top because, as Finlay found, “birds fly in and poke holes in the vegetables, then the squirrels come in ad finish the job.” The space doubles as a retreat from the stresses of life in a pandemic. “In the middle of the summer when it’s in full bloom,” the architect notes, “it’s like a really quiet Zen room.”
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right: Architect Mark Finlay designed and Andrew Tyrrell built this custom garden structure out of white cedar and deerresistant fencing.
ENCLOSED GARDEN, COURTESY OF MARK FINLAY; VEGETABLE GARDEN BY NEIL LANDINO
below: A garden design by James Doyle.
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A James Doyle Designs water feature
above: Wadia Associates installed a long reflecting pool that runs under a bridge and to the front of the home for an immediate sense of tranquility. below: Another Wadia design showcases a natural stream running through a slew of plantings,
WATER FEATURE BY NEIL LANDINO; TOP AND BOTTOM PHOTO COURTESY OF WADIA ASSOCIATES
Pools remain a top draw for homeowners, and especially for homebuyers from the City hot to have water in any setting. These are not our parents' pools but rather complex interactions of design, construction and mechanics. James Doyle Design Associates in Greenwich partners with structural engineers and others to create what he calls “The Moses Effect”— water separated from other water within the same walls of a swimming pool. But water also serves simpler purposed. “Obviously pools are designed for practical use,” says Doyle, “but water features bring an extra-sensory element to the land that’s very calming.” At the entrance to a magnificent French chateau on eight acres, Wadia Associates installed a long reflecting pool that runs under a stone bridge to the front door. Fountains in the entry courtyard, meanwhile, send plumes of water skyward. “The idea was to give the homeowners an immediate sense of tranquility when they come home,” says Wadia. “There’s the gentle sound of water, reflected light and lily pads. It’s a little bit of Monet in Greenwich.” Meanwhile, streams both natural and man made are primal elements—a lifeforce—that sustain birds, small animals and the human spirit. To reach a modest house on a small lot in
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Native plants and pollinators: Black Eyed Susan, Switchgrass, and Echinacea,
TOP LEFT WATER FEATURE AND POOL BY ALEGRA ANDERSON; TOP RIGHT WATER FEATURE BY NEIL LANDINO
here and above: While pools are still a top priority for homeowners, James Doyle says he has begun to add many more types of water features into his landscape designs to create a feeling od tranquility throughout the properties.
Darien, the owners and visitors drive over a bridge and narrow stream. Jay Petrow removed the pachysandra crowding the banks and in its place, around boulders he had trucked in, put in a wealth of native plants and pollinators: Black Eyed Susan, switchgrass, asters and echinacea, among others. “I thought that would be a beautiful scenesetter for the property,” Petrow says. “I was excited about changing the landscape from what was basically an ecological desert of lawns and Pachyasandra and boxwood to something that not only looks better to me but benefits the environment.” Not that a lack of water should be a deterrent. On Dinyar Wadia’s New Canaan property, the man-made stream features a flow regulator that controls the speed of the current and the level of water, which can be lowered during heavy rains. Now that’s what we call a modern water feature. MARCH 2022 GREENWICH
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UCONN STAMFORD ART GALLERY, One University Pl., Stamford, 251-8400. artgallery.stamford.uconn.edu
DOWNTOWN CABARET THEATRE, 263 Golden Hill St., Bridgeport, 576-1636. dtcab.com
WESTPORT ARTS CENTER, 51 Riverside Ave., Westport, 226-7070. westportartscenter.org YALE CENTER FOR BRITISH ART, 1080 Chapel St., New Haven, 432-2800. britishart.yale.edu YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY, 1111 Chapel St., New Haven, 432-0611. artgallery.yale.edu
CONCERTS, FILM & THEATER
FAIRFIELD THEATRE COMPANY, On StageOne, 70 Sanford St., Fairfield, 259-1036. fairfieldtheatre.org GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE, 6 Main St., East Haddam, 860-873-8668. goodspeed.org GREENWICH LIBRARY, 101 W. Putnam Ave., 622-7900. greenwichlibrary.org JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER, 364 Manville Rd., Pleasantville, NY, 914-773-7663. burnsfilmcenter.org
ARENA AT HARBOR YARD, 600 Main St., Bridgeport, 3452300. websterbankarena.com
LONG WHARF THEATRE, 222 Sargent Dr., New Haven, 787-4282. longwharf.com
AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER, 272 Bedford St., Stamford, 661-0321. avontheatre.org
RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE, 80 East Ridge, Ridgefield, 438-9269. ridgefieldplayhouse.org
RIDGEFIELD THEATER BARN, 37 Halpin Ln., Ridgefield, 431-9850. ridgefieldtheaterbarn.org SHUBERT THEATER, 247 College St., New Haven, 800-228-6622. shubert.com STAMFORD CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Palace Theatre, 61 Atlantic St., Stamford, 325-4466. stamfordcenterforthearts.org WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE, 25 Powers Ct., Westport, 227-4177. westportplayhouse.org
LECTURES, TOURS & WORKSHOPS ALDRICH MUSEUM, 258 Main St., Ridgefield, 438-0198. aldrichart.org AUDUBON GREENWICH, 613 Riversville Rd., 869-5272. greenwich.audubon.org AUX DÉLICES, 231 Acosta St., Stamford, 326-4540, ext. 108. auxdelicesfoods.com
Lucky for us the St. Patrick’s Day parade will be held on Sunday, March 20 at 2 p.m., starting at Town Hall. BOWMAN OBSERVATORY PUBLIC NIGHT, NE of Milbank/East Elm St. rotary on the grounds of Julian Curtiss School, 869-6786, ext. 338 BRUCE MUSEUM, 1 Museum Dr., 869-0376. brucemuseum.org CLAY ART CENTER, 40 Beech St., Port Chester, NY, 914-937-2047. clayartcenter.org
The Flinn Gallery What is it about the shoe that so captivates the imagination? Dorothy’s ruby red slippers carried her down the yellow brick road, Cinderella’s glass slipper reunited her with her Prince Charming, Carrie Bradshaw’s red-soled stilettos unlocked a life of urban glamour and sophistication. If you, too, are shoe-obsessed, be sure to pop into the Flinn Gallery through Wednesday, March 16 to explore Just Shoes: Where Art, Craft and Fantasy Meet, an exhibition featuring more than seventy shoes by twenty artists. Curated by Debra Fram and Barbara Richards. 101 West Putnam Avenue, flinngallery.com.
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CONNECTICUT CERAMICS STUDY CIRCLE, Bruce Museum, 1 Museum Dr. ctcsc.org FAIRFIELD MUSEUM AND HISTORY CENTER, 370 Beach Rd., Fairfield, 259-1598. fairfieldhistory.org
GREENWICH BOTANICAL CENTER, 130 Bible St., 869-9242. gecgreenwich.org GREENWICH LIBRARY, 101 W. Putnam Ave., 622-7900. greenwichlibrary.org KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART, 26 Bedford Rd., Chappaqua, NY, 914-232-9555. katonahmuseum.org STAMFORD MUSEUM & NATURE CENTER, 39 Scofieldtown Rd., Stamford, 977-6521. stamfordmuseum.org »
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Enjoy cocktails, dinner, & dancing We’ll recognize our Champion for Recovery – Tichianaa Armah, MD, Chief Psychiatry Officer, Community Health Center, Stamford. and our Town Champions who have made their communities better places to live and work. - Shelly Skoglund, President, Community Fund of Darien Board of Directors - Mayor Caroline Simmons of Stamford - Trey Laird, CEO and Founder, The Lighthouse Sober Living and Recovery 365 of New Canaan - David Rabin, CEO, Greenwich United Way
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Magic on the River Friday, April 29, 2022 7 - 10 pm
Please join us for an elegant evening of celebration to benefit River House Adult Day Center Co-Chairs Leah Marmon & JoAnn McCarthy Cocktails
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Illusionist
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The Maritime Aquarium
The Maritime Aquarium with Norwalk’s Seal-Spotting & Birding Cruises seek out harbor seals as they lounge on rocks in Long Island Sound. The two-hour cruises are offered on many weekends through April 10. Dates and times vary by the tide. For more details and to reserve your tickets visit maritimeaquarium.org. »
Help monitor the population of frogs in your Connecticut neighborhood this spring—like this gray tree frog—through the FrogWatch USA citizen-scientist program. Advance registration is required. maritimeaquarium.org
Spring Luncheon
featured guests
Tuesday, April 5, 2022 Hosted in-person at the Stamford Marriott or Virtually!
alexis mcgill johnson planned parenthood federation of america
Abortion access is in crisis in the United States. Join our biggest event of the year to talk about abortion access, locally and nationally, and support sexual and reproductive health care services at Planned Parenthood. Proof of full COVID-19 vaccination will be required for those attending in-person.
Tickets & Sponsorships available at ppsne.org/luncheon
julia iyasere, m.d. dalio center for health justice newyork-presbyterian hospital
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DREAM. BELIEVE. ACHIEVE. THE FUND FOR WOMEN & GIRLS ANNUAL LUNCHEON FEATURING ANITA HILL
Dare to dream. Believe in your power. Achieve your story. Join us in person or virtually to get inspired, learn about our new signature initiative, and support women and girls across Fairfield County in achieving their best lives. What will you write in your book?
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calendar KIDS’ STUFF MARCH 2022 ALDRICH MUSEUM, 258 Main St., Ridgefield, 438-4519. aldrichart.org
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH, 4 Horseneck Lane, 869-3224. bgcg.org
AUDUBON GREENWICH, 613 Riversville Rd., 869-5272. greenwich.audubon.org
BRUCE MUSEUM, 1 Museum Dr., 869-0376. brucemuseum.org
AUX DÉLICES, (cooking classes), 23 Acosta St., Stamford, 326-4540 ext. 108. auxdelicesfoods.com BEARDSLEY ZOO, 1875 Noble Ave., Bridgeport, 394-6565. beardsleyzoo.org
DISCOVERY MUSEUM AND PLANETARIUM, 4450 Park Ave., Bridgeport, 372-3521. discoverymuseum.org DOWNTOWN CABARET THEATRE, 263 Golden Hill St., Bridgeport, 576-1636. dtcab.com
EARTHPLACE, 10 Woodside Lane, Westport, 227-7253. earthplace.org GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 39 Strickland St., 869-6899. hstg.org GREENWICH LIBRARY, 101 W. Putnam Ave., 622-7900. greenwichlibrary.org
MARITIME AQUARIUM, 10 N. Water St., S. Norwalk, 852-0700. maritimeaquarium.org NEW CANAAN NATURE CENTER, 144 Oenoke Ridge, New Canaan, 966-9577. newcanaannature.org
IMAX THEATER AT MARITIME AQUARIUM, 10 N. Water St., S. Norwalk, 852-0700. maritimeaquarium.org
RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE, 80 East Ridge, Ridgefield, 438-5795. ridgefieldplayhouse.org
KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART, Rte. 22 at Jay St., Katonah, NY, 914-232-9555. katonahmuseum.org
STAMFORD CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Palace Theatre, 61 Atlantic St., Stamford, 325-4466. palacestamford.org
STAMFORD MUSEUM & NATURE CENTER, 39 Scofieldtown Rd., Stamford, 977-6521. stamfordmuseum.org STEPPING STONES MUSEUM FOR CHILDREN, 303 West Ave., Mathews Park, Norwalk, 899-0606. steppingstonesmuseum.org WESTPORT ARTS CENTER, 51 Riverside Ave., Westport, 222-7070. westportartscenter.org WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE, 25 Powers Ct., Westport, 227-4177. westportplayhouse.org G
Join us to celebrate the 120th Anniversary of the Children's Learning Centers of Fairfield County
An I n ti m ate Eveni n g with Vanessa Williams
Dancing afterwards with DJ April Larken Friday, June 3, 6:30 pm Serafina at the IC, Stamford, CT Tickets: clcfc.org
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ear after year March comes barreling in with its wintry weather and makes us wonder if spring will ever come knocking. It will. It always does. The good news is that the month usually offers up a handful of crisp, beautiful days—the perfect weather to bundle up and head to Tod’s Point. It may be chilly, but you can’t beat the view. Social Editor Ali Gray snapped this photo of a mom, dad, baby and pup out for a brisk beach walk. Suddenly March doesn’t seem all that bad. G
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