East Haddam Lands On NY Times List Of Places For 2021

EAST HADDAM, CT — East Haddam was one of the places recently recently highlighted in "52 Places to Love in 2021" in The New York Times. The pieces includes vignettes about individual writers' experiences in a wide range of places around the world, from Isfahan, Iran to Kaliya Dhrow, India to Montana's "Golden Triangle."

Caley Millen-Pigliucci, a graduate student in journalism in New York, writes about how she rediscovered her hometown of East Haddam.

"I never liked being from a small town. Even when I was a kid, I wanted to get away as quickly as I could. As soon as I got a driver’s license, I was zooming to other places.

"But last year — a year when the world felt smaller than ever — I felt a connection and longing for my hometown, East Haddam: its rolling hillsides along the Connecticut River; the beautiful Swing Bridge, which opens for boats; the Goodspeed Opera House, where I worked as an usher in high school.

"Although I’ve known East Haddam all my life, I finally fell in love with it last summer, when I visited with my boyfriend. We jumped into the waterfall at Devil’s Hopyard State Park; I found myself marveling at the quaint farm stands and picturesque New England churches. It may be small, but it’s home."

Read the full article in The New York Times.