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Want to know how your flat front pants should be altered? Welty is unambiguous on the subject: “In the Ivy League Look, the gold standard has re-mained unchanged for a long, long time. To wit: Cuff, no break with a knife blade crease.” Welty said in his first visit this year to New Haven, a few days after the official start of spring on March 20, he was (wisely) still in winter mode. When he returns this month, it will be with spring clothing. “I have faith,” he said on the phone from Durham. That means: lighter colors and fabrics, cotton in-stead of wool. “And flashy cotton socks.” On his feet? Camp moccasins, Vans sneakers, and a pair of loafers. At Peter Beck's Village Store in Salisbury, Peter Feen said he is awaiting much of his spring merchandise. But he does have very nice sport shirts in appropri-ate spring colors from Collared Greens, at $98 apiece. They are made in the USA and have unlined button-down collars, for an informal look. Feen said he knows it's spring when the white pants come in — for Salisbury School's graduation.
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For sprucing up your house, your wardrobe, or your col-lection of prosthetic limbs, nothing beats a visit to the Millerton Antiques Center, a collection of 36 dealers in
one buzzing and eclectic spot on Main Street. Clearly that was what one couple had in mind on a recent Saturday morning as they cruised the alleys stocked with paintings, lamps, buckets of tableware, gorgeously horned sheep heads gazing down on glass cases jammed with rings and brooches, stacks of white ironstone, chairs, a clutch of fur coats — one a mink, and my favorite: a naked dummy wear-ing a red fez. “My hat is for sale,” a sign on her chest reads. “I’m not.” The couple pores over piles of Oriental rugs, the kind you might place in the front entry of a nice old country house. “Lovely,” she says, pulling out a silky red stretch of carpet. “Too much,” her mate says, checking the tag hanging from a corner. And that’s the interesting thing about shopping here, says Bob Murphy, one of the four owners of the market. When goods don’t sell, the dealers cut prices. Dealers want to sell their goods, because dealers, them-selves, love to collect, Murphy says. That’s how many of them got into the business to begin with. Problem is, Murphy continued, you have to sell to keep on collecting, and, often, dealers at this market pare down prices to keep their goods moving. I found a gorgeous glass plate mounted on a sterling stand. The dealer had crossed off $45 and wrote in $30. I fig-ure I will check back in a couple of weeks to see if the price sinks to $15. Could happen I figure, from what Murphy told me. I was surrounded by treasures: A spinning topographic globe made back when there was a Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and a country called Burma: $45; tiny glass birds, just $5; “Not new nice Chinese lamps,” a ticket says: $300; a gigantic Merino sheep’s head, its long horns unwinding into
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space, good for a hunting lodge one of the dealers told me, for $675; And a pair of columns, just two feet tall. I have always wanted a Doric column, even a short Doric column, but Lisa Foster, who once ran Nest, an antiques shop on Millerton’s Main Street, was selling them as a pair. She loved running her own store, she tells me, but not the daily commit-ment. So now, she has a booth in the market where, like all the other dealers, she helps customers throughout the store two days a month. I ask her how much one column would cost. She screws up her face, shakes her blonde curls, eyes the ceiling as she works it out and settles on half of what she would charge for two. Fair enough. Goods run from the practical to the bizzare, and upstairs is where some of the zanier objects are displayed, like a bright green Mexican sombrero, ribboned and sequined in gold: $20; an egg beater with a wooden handle: $10; the lid of a white ironstone soup tureen, $6; and two pairs of prosthetic legs, one of them barefoot: $100 each. What a place to shop!
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If you want to build a wardrobe from vintage and second-hand shops it helps if you’re a little bit of a character. Take Lakeville Journal reporter Patrick Sullivan, who is
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In the increasingly competitive amateur divi-sion, Justin Reich from Newington, Conn. cap-tured third place with his “Surfing Penguins”. Hometown favorite Jean Saliter took second place with her “Lombardi Trophy” and also won the People’s Choice Award. Howard Freeman from East Hartford, Conn., won first place honors with his “Lighthouse View” sculpture.
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had taken classes in geology at Amherst College and went looking to find his own. He found some, but kept quiet until he could purchase the land in 1939. He removed and sold tracks to collectors but eventually quit his job at Ho-lyoke Water Power Co. to open the private preserve, which he called Nash Dinosaurland. His son Komell Nash took over in 1997. Other tracks are to be found at Dinosaur State Park in Rocky Hill, CT, south of Hart-ford, beneath a geodesic dome. These tracks were bared dur-ing earth digging for a state
building in 1966. An equipment operator flipped a slab of sandstone to reveal tracks with three toes. It is now one of the largest on-site displays of dinosaur tracks anywhere, made by Eubrontes and Dilophosaurus. Even more tracks were dis-covered in the same communi-ty, same circumstances (con-struction of a new health-care facility) in 2006. As one looks at dinosaur tracks, the imagi-nation begins to spin. Where did they come from? Where were they going? Were they hunting? Playing? Running for their lives?
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2015 Toyota TacomaAccess Cab 4 cylinder 5 speed manual. 4x4 stock #5990 $25,5002015 Toyota TacomaAccess Cab 4 Cylinder Auto. 4x4 stock #5017 $26,4952015 Toyota TacomaAccess Cab v6 6 speed manual 4x4 Off Road #5115 $306952015 Toyota TacomaAccess Cab v6 Auto 4x4 Off Road #5009 $31,7952015 Toyota TacomaAccess Cab v6 Auto 4x4 SR5 #5116 $30,2002015 Toyota TacomaDouble Cab v6 4x4 Auto SR5 #5123 $30,7952015 Toyota TacomaDouble Cab v6 4x4 Long bed Sport package #5068 $32,3952015 Toyota TundraSr5 Double Cab 5.7 v8 4x4 #5037 $34,9952015 Toyota TundraDouble Cab 5.7 4x4 Off road. stock #5167 $36,8972015 Toyota TundraCrew Max Limited 4x4 #5066 $43,298
NEW TRUCKS
2010 Toyota TacomaAccess Cab 4x4 SR5 112k 9916u $19,4952006 ToyotaRegular cab 4x2 76k Miles 9920u $11,4952012 Toyota TundraCrew Max off road. 33k Miles 4x4 9953u $29,9952013 Toyota TacomaAccess Cab SR5 !0k Miles 4x4 9971u $27,9952015 Toyota TacomaAccess Cab 4x4 v6 off road 600 miles #9981u $30,995
USED TRUCKS
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