Dear Readers and Residents of Darien,
As Earth Day this month focuses our attention on the environment, we are pleased to bring you this issue and its celebration of the kinds of actions embodied in the Alexanders’ recent donation of part of their land to the Darien Land Trust. It is vision like theirs that balances the exciting development around us.
It is the same vision that defines Chris Filmer’s volunteerism in town. With his decades of passionate work on behalf of Darien’s open spaces and the flora and fauna who live there (as well as the two-legged among us lucky enough to have found them!), he leads with all he does—quietly, with intelligence, action, humor, grace and grit, schooling us to find the best in ourselves while he’s at it.
What a gift to have spent the time with him to write this story, a gift we are pleased to share.
Darien’s Meaghan Hetherington, LCSW | psychotherapist, contributed our Mind Set column this month about the mental health benefits of green spaces, especially for kids, and Carolyn Bayne with the Darien Advisory Committee on Sustainability has issued a very interesting and worthwhile challenge in our Giving Back column. All I can say is ‘we’re in!’ … for both and perhaps you will be too after you read them.
We love Carol Guthrie’s column about the Art of Landscape Design in this issue and are pleased to introduce a new item this month—House Tour, an exploration of the many architectural styles that give Darien its unique character. Special thanks to Town Historian Marian Castell and Liz Geiger of the Architectural Review Board for helping with this. Thanks also to Sharon Rodda of Houlihan Lawrence for bringing us into 194 Long Neck Point Road, this month’s House Tour feature.
There’s all this and more in the pages ahead, a magazine for Darien, by Darien, and we thank the advertisers who make it possible for us to produce it for you, especially Hollow Tree Storage and Wine Vault profiled in this issue. Please, share your thoughts with us at pam@darienmagazinect.com or carl@darienmagazinect.com.
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