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Landscape of the Imagination - An overview of the Connecticut town green - an icon of history, tradition, and community. |
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Guilford: Heart of the Community - The history of Guilford's common reflects the evolution of many greens from unkempt public utilitarian spaces to landscaped parks used for leisure and recreation. |
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Lebanon: Patriots and More - Unlike most greens, the Lebanon Green was never landscaped as a park. To visit this mile-long swath of open hayfield is to imagine how a town common may have looked in the eighteenth century. |
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Litchfield: Colonial Revival Town - The Litchfield Green is one of the state's most distinctive and recognizable symbols of rural beauty. |
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New Haven: The Elm City - A distinctive presence for more than 350 years, the New Haven Green serves as a relic of the oldest formally planned community in America. |
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Norwich: The Rose City - An historical study and celebration of Norwich's four prominent town greens. |
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Tolland: A Quiet Curiousity - The Tolland green is an historic town landscape so sidestepped by modern development that it appears to be frozen in the late nineteenth century. |
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Waterbury: The Brass City - Waterbury's green is an old meetinghouse common that has survived through the years as a symbol of continuity in a city substantially affected by the post-war decline in brass manufacturing. |