Dear Readers and Residents of Darien,
It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the inaugural issue of DarienMagazineCT.com as we celebrate the New Year! We created this magazine in honor of you and the town we share as a way to tell the local stories that connect and inspire. It has become a tribute to our co-founder Renie Trautmann as well. Though we lost her too soon last fall, this magazine and the media platform around it will perpetuate the legacy she leaves through all she gave back, a reminder to find the best in each day, and in each other.
And we can think of no better way to kick all this off than with a cover feature about Penny Glassmeyer, the woman behind so much of what we see happening in our downtown. How grateful we are to her! Thank you Penny and all the Glassmeyers for allowing us in to share her story. It’s important to know the shoulders we stand on as we move about our lives. Thank you Carolyn Eddie for joining our new effort with your inimitable recipes and to David Nelson, owner of Ten Twenty Post, for the access you provided for our first Good
Table column. Thanks to Linda Stephens for agreeing to lead our In Good Health feature and to Dr. Amanda Craig for taking on the inaugural Mind Set column—our monthly look at mental strength, wellness and advice from a range of voices in town. Thanks too to Geary Gallery for helping kick off our Art Show column, a snapshot each month of some aspect of the arts in town, and to Marian Castell for providing the spark (and great direction) for this first effort. Thanks also to Janet King of The Darien Community Fund for your contributions to our first Giving Back column. All so interesting. Thank you to our founding partners, and all the advertisers who are making it possible for us to produce this magazine, and the website, newsletter and social media that will accompany it.
There’s so much for you in the pages ahead and we hope you will enjoy this issue as much as we did putting it together for you.
Please, share your thoughts with us at pam@darienmagazinect.com or carl@darienmagazinect.com.
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Pamela Dey Vossler Editor-in-Chief
Carl Trautmann Founder & Publisher
