Celebrating East Litchfield

On Tuesday evening, August 5th, at the East Litchfield Fire Company, the East Litchfield community hosted the unveiling of Jesse Richard's artwork depicting the depot area of East Litchfield Village in 1880.

Jesse Richard, artist and former proprietor of Walnut Hill Greenhouse, spent last winter creating this amazing image.

Daniel Keefe, the historian of East Litchfield, donated East Litchfield chestnut wood that came out of his 1780 home for the frame and William Thibodeau donated his time to craft the frame.

 

Jesse talked about the history of the area and each building in the image. The artwork will permanently hang in the firehouse.

East Litchfield Village 1880 by Jesse Richard

 

Emerging Poet

In early August, another college student from Central Connecticut State University, David G. Rich, came to Wisdom House to work on his poetry. He was able to come for a weekend because of the generous funds from the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Fund of The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.

HFPG has given Wisdom House funds to provide this opportunity to students at area colleges. One of the poems David was working on that weekend is printed below:

 

Even against a clouded sky-
Shadows still reign forth.
Evening light long since vapor-
The night has come a new.

On a cladded stoop a writer ponders-

Unfamiliar sights.


But comfort in his words he holds-
For they can shine in black.
 

~ David G. Rich


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Future Teacher

Hallie Yasuda, a student at CCSU majoring in education, also writes poetry and enjoys sketching. While taking part in the Wisdom House Writers Fellowship grant through the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Fund of the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, she spent a weekend at Wisdom House this summer to take time to write as well as sketch. She is looking forward to student teaching this fall.


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National Catholic Educational Association Meets

 

Twenty-five members of the National Catholic Educational Association, all directors of religious education in parishes on the East Coast, met at Wisdom House for a four day retreat to be renewed in their ministry of religious education. The retreat was facilitated by Mickie Abatemarco, the Associate Executive Director of the Religious Education Department. Visit www.ncea.org.

 

 

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Where does the energy, the power, come from that allows this to be?

Photo credit: Andrew Ford

The nature of divine Mystery far surpasses our understanding.

(From "Awe-Filled Wonder: The Interface of Science and Spirituality," Barbara Fiand, SND de N)

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