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The Quiet Corner

The Quiet Corner Travel Guide

Few visitors to Connecticut experience the old-fashioned ways of the state's "Quiet Corner," a vast patch of sparsely populated towns that seem a world away from the rest of the state. The Quiet Corner has a reclusive allure: people used to leave New York City for the Litchfield Hills; now many are leaving for northeastern Connecticut, where the stretch of Route 169 from Brooklyn past Woodstock has been named a National Scenic Byway. More »

Gertrude Chandler Warner: Teacher Turned Writer

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Lebanon
Pomfret
Putnam

Storrs
Woodstock

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