Veterans Day was celebrated all through Greenwich, together with at a number of native faculties, as college students honored the contributions of those that served their nation.
Riverside College held its annual celebration Nov. 9. In its twenty first yr, the ceremony on the college’s entrance garden was scaled again because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Nevertheless it was nonetheless a memorable salute to veterans.
“The Veterans Day Ceremony is a longstanding custom at Riverside College, the place the group comes collectively to acknowledge veterans and the essential contributions they’ve made to our nation,” Principal Christopher Weiss mentioned. “It was essential to nonetheless maintain the ceremony in a accountable method, regardless of the constraints the pandemic has offered.”
The ceremony included a flag-raising and recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in addition to the laying of a memorial wreath.
The fourth- and fifth-grade courses took half, together with volunteers, faculty workers and native veterans.
First Selectman Fred Camillo attended, together with Peter LeBeau, a Vietnam veteran and head of American Legion Put up 29, and Chief of Police James Heavey, who can also be a veteran.
“It was an exquisite alternative to show college students essentially the most helpful lesson they will be taught, to easily thank a veteran, at present and daily of the yr,” mentioned Camillo, whose father was a Marine drill teacher.
On the shut of the ceremony, Riverside College acknowledged its alumni who died in overseas wars: Phillip Edward George Jr., Henry Bradbury Johnson and Clarence Brodie Keith, who served in World Warfare II; Thomas Budd Kean, Nevell Brackett Safford and Louis Francis Zaccardo, who served within the Korean Warfare; and Richard Horsfall, who served in Vietnam.
The scholars in kindergarten by way of third grade watched a recording of the occasion and took half in different actions associated to Veterans Day on Nov. 11.
Downtown
In a Thanksgiving custom, the Boys & Ladies Membership of Greenwich will dish up a feast for its members to rejoice the vacation.
The vacation meal, which will likely be served Nov. 23, will embrace turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and different Thanksgiving sides, topped off with pies for dessert.
“That is one in all our favourite occasions on the Clubhouse,” mentioned Don Palmer, vp of packages and youth growth.
The membership’s board and leaders will serve up the vacation feast. Prior to now, First Selectman Fred Camillo, Chief of Police James Heavey and Director of Parks and Recreation Joe Siciliano, all of whom had been membership members as youngsters, helped out.
“It’s nice to know that so many members will go dwelling with full stomachs after an excellent meal served by our group leaders,” Palmer mentioned.
Now in its nineteenth yr, the feast is again as an in-person meal for 2021, with the youngsters lining as much as be served buffet-style. Final yr, the membership delivered dinners for six to its members to take pleasure in at dwelling with their households because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Practically 300 youngsters are anticipated to benefit from the feast this yr. Courtnay Arpano of Courtnay’s Kitchen will put together the meals.
The annual occasion “allows membership members an opportunity to eat a scrumptious and nutritious meal with their clubhouse pals and membership workers as ‘household’ and preserving in keeping with the membership’s dedication to supply youngsters a secure and nurturing surroundings and a way of belonging,” the Boys & Ladies Membership mentioned in an announcement.
Central Greenwich
The Junior League of Greenwich’s annual Enchanted Forest, a favourite vacation occasion on the town, will likely be held as a mixed in-person and digital occasion in 2021.
“Greenwich residents have loved this hallmark occasion for over 40 years,” league President Karen Richard mentioned. “We’re thrilled to proceed the custom this yr by providing lots of the finest components of the previous, in a mixture of digital and in-person experiences for adults and youngsters.”
Volunteers have additionally created a “particular, digitally accessible Enchanted Forest with a wide range of experiences so that you can take pleasure in together with your family and friends, from the security of your personal dwelling,” the Junior League introduced in an announcement.
Objects accessible for buy as a part of the occasion embrace gingerbread-decorating kits, a VIP expertise drive-by from Santa, personalized letters to outdated St. Nick and a narrative time with Santa over Zoom. The occasion can even embrace a web based public sale that working from Nov. 19 to Nov. 21 at www.jlgreenwich.org/the-enchanted-forest/.
Supporters can decide up their purchases at a safe-distance drive-through on Nov. 21 on the league’s headquarters at 231 E. Putnam Ave.
The Santa VIP experiences will likely be scheduled to happen Dec. 4 at scheduled instances between 10:30 a.m. and three:30 p.m. at residents’ properties.
Prior to now, the Junior League of Greenwich has hosted the three-day Enchanted Forest on the Hyatt Regency Greenwich and Christ Church, with embellished bushes, procuring boutiques and visits with Santa. For the previous two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has pressured it to change into a digital celebration that may be principally loved from dwelling.
Cos Cob
The damaging floodwaters from storm Ida in September pressured the Greenwich Historic Society to delay a serious exhibition of the work of Impressionist artist John Henry Twachtman till subsequent yr.
However packages will nonetheless go ahead about Twachtman, who purchased a farm in Greenwich in 1890 and frolicked on the artwork colony in Cos Cob.
A lecture on Nov. 18 will rejoice the launch of a brand new digital useful resource that compiles detailed data of his oeuvre, life, exhibitions and different materials, together with his correspondence and all of his art work. Will probably be known as “John Henry Twachtman Catalogue Raisonné.”
The digital night, hosted by the Greenwich Historic Society, known as “Twachtman’s Highway to Greenwich.” It’s sponsored together with unbiased artwork historian and curator Lisa Peters, who will lead the speak.
“Dr. Peters will chart Twachtman’s creative profession by way of concentrate on a number of key works, from his early days in Cincinnati, to European research and journey, to New York Metropolis, and at last to Greenwich,” the historic society mentioned in an announcement.
Peters will likely be joined by Maggie Dimock, the historic society’s curator of exhibitions and collections, to debate Twachtman’s legacy in addition to the brand new digital useful resource.
The free lecture will likely be held on Zoom from 6 to 7 p.m. Nov. 18. To register, go to greenwichhistory.org/occasion/twachtmans-road-to-greenwich/. Will probably be accessible to view on demand afterward.
