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Music schools in tune with pandemic precautions By Jessica Simms Special to the Record-Journal

During the pandemic, music has played a key part in many people’s lives as a source of inspiration, joy and stress relief. As a way to keep music a part of their students’ lives, music schools in the area remained open, teaching lessons in innovative ways.

West Main Music Academy Online lessons instantly became available at West Main Music Academy, 470 W. Main St. in Cheshire. In mid-March, slightly before non-essential businesses were required to shut down, Katie Giampietro, director, along with her staff, decided to shut the school down and develop a plan for virtual lessons.

Ethan Beach, 8, and father, Greg, of Cheshire, read sheet music for the English folk song Hey, Ho, Nobody Home during a guitar lesson at West Main Music Academy in Cheshire on Aug. 12. Area music schools have remained open during the pandemic, teaching lessons in Dave Zajac, Record-Journal innovative ways.

themselves to the most successful music lesson. “We basically developed a virtual lesson program kind of overnight, rolled it out just after we shut things down and the majority of our students who were coming for in-person private lessons or group lessons jumped on to the virtual program and we’ve had amazing feedback,” she said.

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Museums find ways to operate in pandemic Barker Character, Comic & Cartoon Museum

As a way to connect with patrons, area museums have come up with unique ways to continue to operate. Here is a sampling of some local museums that you can visit.

After closing when the pandemic first began, the Barker Character, Comic & Cartoon Museum in Cheshire reopened in mid-July for private tours only.

Whether area students continue their studies at campuses that are less than a day trip away, or hundreds or even thousands of miles away, chances are their campuses are taking different approaches to quarantining and grouping students. Some schools will conduct COVID-19 tests more regularly than others. Fairfield University is about a 45minute trek down Route 15 from Cheshire. Nicole Perugini is looking forward to moving in on Aug. 28.

Effective July 1, West Main Music Academy opened again for in-person lessons. New plans and procedures were put in place, such as “So we basically jumped into action and developed a virtual lesson social distancing, masks, limited program for all instruments. Every capacity and lesson rooms cleaned instrument that we offer was avail- between students. able for a virtual lesson,” Giampi“Once we put those policies in etro said. “We offer a variety of place and rolled that out to our Guitar teacher Mike Johnston platforms so we did a lot of restudent base, people seemed very instructs students Greg Beach search on what technological platand son Ethan, 8, of Cheshire. forms were best and would lend

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Along with the history of animation art, the museum has character and comic collectibles. “Some of our greatest pleasures come when grandparents come with their grandchildren and they See Museums, A15

Fairfield plans to reopen with full inperson instruction. Students and faculty will need to wear masks in classrooms. Instruction will be in-person until Thanksgiving break, when students will be dismissed and go remote for the remainder of the semester. Nicole’s father, Cheshire Board of Education Chairman Tony Perugini, noted the move-in days and times will be staggered to minimize congestion. High school didn’t end the way students may have wanted. But students like Nicole Perugini are hoping to turn that page in starting college. She represents the second generation of Peruginis to attend college. “It’s exciting. We’re happy for her,” her father said. Having Nicole attend Fairfield is “a big deal for her family, especially for my parents, who came here from Italy with nothing ... We’re all proud of her. “If COVID wasn’t around, we would See College, A10

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Artsplace Director Joan Pilarczyk wanted to do something this summer to keep everyone’s creative juices flowing. COVID-19 put the brakes on most activities, including art classes. But COVID-19 also served to give Pilarczyk a chance to challenge herself, hit reset and come up with a great idea.

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ing in the mountains or even a whale watching cruise or sightseeing trip. Cheshire’s Cordelia Doviak, 13, took the challenge and is finding it very satisfying. “I have always loved fashion and Project Runway, so this is a great opportunity,” Cordelia, a student at the Wintergreen Interdistrict Magnet School in North Haven enters eighth grade this year and her studies include fashion design. “My kind of thing is fashion. I used skills from school in this competition,” she said. Doviak recently completed one project. She created the COVID-19 Warrior doll for one of the challenges and said she is “excited to work on the next challenge,” which is to dress a recognizable character. Doviak said she will transform her doll into Madonna, the singer. Doviak had been concerned there would not be many opportunities to do anything this summer because of COVID-19. “I am happy to do this with Art-

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splace,” she said. According to the rules listed on the Artsplace website, a winner in each age group will receive a $25 gift certificate awarded in each challenge. The grand prize winner will receive a $100 Gift Certificate. All correctly submitted entries will also be seen online in the “Runway Show” on the Cheshire Public Library website. While there are four challenges, participants may elect to enter one or more of the challenges. Once registered, participants will pick up a box of materials and a doll for use in any of the challenges. Participants may also use their own materials if they would like. Challenge 1: “I’m dressed and ready to go, but where?” Create the ultimate summer outfit for a day at ________ (you decide). Deadline for Challenge 1 submission: Sunday, Aug. 16.

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Haven Department of Health banned games and practices for moderate and high-risk sports. Bridgeport also canceled football and volleyball in 2020. In the CIAC plan, the regular season is scheduled to start on Thursday, Sept. 24.

“Obviously, we will go on the guidance we’ve received from the CIAC. The coaches will do whatever they are asked to do, but it is frustrating for the athletes who’ve been training for the season,” said Cheshire High School Athletic Director Steve Trifone. “We are telling everybody that we will hold tight and see what happens.”

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dressed to Lungarini, DPH said that sports and extracurricular activities should On Friday, the road toward be postponed for at least two bringing back high school weeks after the reopening of fall sports took another turn. schools. With proper educaA day after receiving a letter tion, DPH said that it would from the Connecticut Derecommend allowing stupartment of Public Health, dents to play lower-risk the Connecticut Intersports like cross country and scholastic Athletic Confergirls’ swim and dive, as well ence Board of Control had a as soccer classified as a meeting and announced that moderate-risk sport. they would be pausing all in-person fall sports activiHowever, DPH felt that girls’ ties through Aug. 24. Coach- volleyball and football es are allowed to promote should be pushed back to virtual contact and condithe spring of 2021 or cantioning. celed. Those sports are listed as moderate and high-risk, “During next week, we will respectively. take additional time to review and understand all of Lungarini had asked DPH to the recommendations made review their current plan, by DPH,” said CIAC Execubut the letter wasn’t received tive Director Glenn Lungari- in time for the Aug. 12 meetni. “We have invited DPH to ing with fall sports commitmeet with us next Thursday tees, medical professionals, (Aug. 20), along with our and school officials. medical advisors to insure that we have a full under“We greatly appreciate our standing of their recommen- partnership with DPH. The dations and the COVID met- information they have prorics and science that led to vided us is very detailed,” them.” said Lungarini. “I can’t say a bad thing about the departOn Wednesday, Aug. 13, the ment of public health.” CIAC Board of Control voted 17-0 to move forward with In response to the DPH letall of their fall sports, but ter on Friday, the New in the three-page letter ad-

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After audit, state Rep. Zupkus repays SEEC Zupkus is the four-term Republican incumbent representing the 89th District, which includes Cheshire, Prospect and Bethany. Zupkus is seeking a fifth term. Zupkus said the payments were made to a nephew of her husband, who was paid to distribute campaign literature that year. She de-

scribed the issue as an “hon- and other close relatives. According to the audit, a close est mistake.” relative includes “the child According to the findings of of any such individuals relatthe SEEC audit, commission ed to the participant candiregulations restrict candidate or his/her spouse or dates participating in the civil union partner.” state-funded Citizens ElecSEEC spokesman Joshua Fotion Program from using campaign funds to pay fami- ley confirmed Zupkus's campaign had repaid the funds ly members – including imlast month. Zupkus is not mediate family members

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Apple Harvest race announced The Southington-Cheshire Community YMCA has announced that registration is open for the Y’s 41st Annual Apple Harvest Festival Road Races. This year, due to the pandemic, Southington’s hometown race will be

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sponsoring a design challenge. Inspired by the popular reality TV show “Project Runway,” this contest is scaled for Barbie/Ken sized dolls of 14 inches or smaller. Participants, divided by age into three groups: 4-9 years, 10-15 years, and 16 years through adult, will be Artsplace Artful challenged to design Attire Challenge clothes/costumes to transform a doll. Answer the Artsplace, The Friends of CPFA/Artsplace, Inc. and the four challenges below by submitting emailed photos Cheshire Public Library are

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from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. or Saturdays 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. to choose a doll and box of supplies. Selection will take place upstairs in a safe, socially-distanced manner. Remember to wear your masks. The winner in each age group will receive a $25 gift certificate awarded for each challenge. The grand prize winner will receive $100 gift certificate. All entries will be seen online at cheshirelibrary.org.

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Calcagni sales VP earns broker’s license President and Broker of Calcagni Real Estate, Antonio Liguori, has announced Beth Allen Byrd, Vice President of Sales has obtained her Real Estate Broker license from the State of Connecticut. For over 50 years, Calcagni Real Estate has been Connecticut’s largest independently owned and operated

real estate company, specializing in residential, commercial, and new construction real estate transactions. Byrd, a licensed Realtor, first joined Calcagni in 2014 and since 2017 has held the role of vice president of sales for the company’s Southington office. In 2019, the company’s Guilford office also came under her purview.

In order to qualify for a Real Estate Broker license, the State of Connecticut requires licensed Realtors with at least two years active experience complete 60 hours of classroom course in Real Estate Principles and Practices, 15 hours of classroom course in Real Estate Brokerage Principles and Practices, a 15 hour classroom course in Le-

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Inappropriate footwear and an awesome view By Joy VanderLek The Cheshire Citizen

This is not a hike where you would take a stroller. This is not a hike for toddlers. In fact, it is not even a hike for you, that is if you are the whiney type either. If, however, you have stamina, love a new adventure, and don’t mind a few “bumps” along the way, this hike is perfect for you. Okay, now that you have been appropriately warned — welcome to the Casertano property. This 89-acre town-owned, open space hiking property

is easy to get to, but not easy to find. It is located at the corner of Jarvis and Marion streets. Vegetation has almost overtaken and obscured the Open Space sign and entrance. Do not despair, you’ll know you are there because it sits directly across from the farmed land on Marion and Jarvis, which is also town-owned and under cultivation by local farmers.

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be less nervous,” Perugini said. Nicole Perugini is excited, acknowledging the college experience will start off a bit differently than she envisioned. “There are a lot of limitations,” she said. For example, freshmen will only be allowed to interact with other freshmen. Unlike some other colleges, she will have a roommate. “I’m not going to be living by myself,” Nicole Perugini said. Her roommate is from Massachusetts. They have been texting and seem to be a good match. She will be studying computer science and engineering, with the hopes of entering the field of forensics after graduation. She fell in love with Fairfield after visiting last year. “I love the engineering program. It’s well put together,” she said. For Courtney Gavitt, another Cheshire resident, the summer has been busy. Gavitt, digital editor for UConn’s Daily Campus student newspaper, has been among the group of student journalists following various developments — the shutting down of sports, school reopening plans, and more — and relaying that information to fellow students. “Normally our summers aren’t super busy. But there’s just been so much happening,” Gavitt said. Gavitt previously had planned to complete an internship over the summer. “Then it was canceled outright,” Gavitt said. She wasn’t alone. Other students who were planning to intern this fall also lost those internships. The majority of classes will be online. Out-of-state students learned just days before move-in started that if they

are taking only online classes this semester they will not be allowed to move back on campus. That decision has infuriated many students. “We generally agree that this decision should have been made months ago,” Gavitt said. At the same time, she acknowledged that UConn administrators have a tough task ahead of them. “Obviously there are not going to be decisions made right now that please everyone,” she said. Wallingford resident Barbara Pannone’s oldest daughter is starting her junior year at California State University Northridge, located in Los Angeles County. “She loves it there so much,” Pannone said. University officials there have opted to make most classes online, save for some science, laboratory oriented classes. Pannone described the decision as disappointing. The family discussed their options. “We talked about do you take the semester off? Why should we pay full tuition if it’s not in-person?” Pannone said. Her daughter decided not to take a break and has a schedule filled with required classes. Meanwhile, Pannone’s other daughter is a senior in high school, and is in the college search process. She will be less able to tour campuses. “I definitely think the quality of their education is going to be lower online. They will not have that whole experience of being in the classroom, asking questions,” Pannone said. “Fortunately both of my kids are motivated.” Trevor Messina’s career as a University of Connecticut student started Monday; move in day. Messina, who just graduated from Southington High School, will not have a roommate, due to COVID-19 restrictions. Nor will he start classes right away. He and other UConn

freshmen will start their studies with a two-week quarantine period. Many classes will be online.

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Messina is majoring in music education. His French horn lessons — at least for the first semester — will be conducted over video conference.

up on the ridge. Go straight into the goldenrod, weeds, dogbane and some multiflora rose. Hopefully you are wearing long, lightweight hiking pants to tramp through to the eyeful of sky, the opening at the property’s boundary. The view takes your breath away (unless you are out of shape and are really just recovering from the climb).

Like many other incoming college students, he has been told it’s not going to be the college experience he is expecting. He is quick to counter: “I’ve never been to college. I’ve only heard it from stories. So I don’t have an expectation of what it’s going to be. “I’m going to college. And whatever my experience is there, it is going to be my first experience so I’m not aware of what I’m missing out on,” he added. Aizlyn Zupkus, 19, of Prospect, will fly south this week to New Orleans, Louisiana, to resume her studies at Tulane University. Numerous changes and precautionary measures await. “They will have temporary classrooms, temporary dining facilities. A lot of classes have been moved online,” Zupkus said, adding some campus facilities, like the gym and student center will be open to students on a reservation basis. “I definitely didn’t picture this when I had applied for Tulane,” Zupkus said. She is an economics major and a member of her school’s Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps program. “That requires extra studying,” Zupkus said. The semester will start early. Students will go home for Thanksgiving. After that, they will stay home, complete their final exams and finish their semesters remotely. It’s too soon to say what the spring 2021 semester will look like. Students like Zupkus are holding out hope. “I am hoping that it goes back to normal,” she said. mgagne@record-journal.com 203-317-2231 Twitter:@MikeGagneRJ

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It is so worth the hike, it isn’t funny. You see the Hanging Hills and looking like a small chess piece so far away is Castle Craig. Beyond that, I wonder if I am seeing down to Middlefield. I think I am. Something else I noticed are the orange flags at the boundary and I am fairly sure the property next door, the former McKinley tree farm, is being prepped for new development. I am glad I came up today. It might be the last look I have of this vista. Once we are done savoring the view, we slip into the woods on the other side of the cleared gas line on the ridge top. This leads to a dead-end loop, where we startle a few deer. They bound off deeper into the woods and we cross the ridge again and return to the trail. Here you have red blazes that offer a left or right. If you go right, you parallel the ridge a few feet and have the option to go back up to the ridge, and cross into the woods for another easy forested hike. We choose (I was outvoted) to follow the red blaze to the left. I’m glad we did. We came upon a small Eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina). Male box turtles have red eyes, females are brown-eyed. Our group could not reach a consensus. We did, however, pick it up to photograph it. Box turtles are a state Species of Special Concern. Habitat loss is their biggest threat, along with car traffic. We will send the pictures we take to CTDEEP so they can document it. This part of the trail was most enjoyable and fairly well maintained overall. Alas, while it seems as if the trail continued, the double red horizontal blazes affixed to a tree on our right made it official we were at the end. We were not really sure, so we checked with our iPhones. Thank goodness for cell service. Although it was blocked off with a small leafless tree (maybe it fell), we headed down the blue trail. Within a few yards it became apparent that the Tevawearing person (not me) made a poor footwear choice for the day’s outing. (I am trying not to be smug.) Yes, this was the trail from hell. Not only were we walking at a 90-degree angle down the hill, we were also headed for a downed-tree bonanza just up ahead. It seemed to be one downed tree after another, and a few trees uphill to the blue trail we were on looked as if they wanted to join their buddies. We jumped over, and otherwise swerved and dodged as fast and lightly as we could. When we finally looped back to the original trail at the mid-section of the mountain (nay, hill), we said our prayers of thanks and moved, rather swiftly, down onto the base and parking lot. Altogether our trip was little over an hour. We spent a good bit of time picking up sticks when we began our hike (giving up after the hundredth stick). We would also have had a quicker hike if we did not take the juncture into the forest. And I would gladly have stayed longer just to take in some more of that awesome view at the top. It is that special. Contact me at jvanderlek@record-journal.com.

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Giampietro plans to offer virtual lessons permanently so students who cannot come in or do not feel comfortable with in-person can continue to learn. “It’s really a choice at this point and I am really glad to be able to offer that choice to people because I feel like everybody has a different comfort level,” Giampietro said.

JC Music Since reopening, JC Music, 529 W. Main St. in Meriden, has had a majority of its students back in the store for lessons, with a few transitioning to online. For those who are taking in-person lessons, the store put COVID-19 related procedures in place including sanitization and social distancing. “We're fortunate at our facility in that our lessons studios are larger than average for a typical music store,” said Shawn Matyasovszky, director of music lessons. “This enabled us to implement social distancing fairly easily. We have hand sanitizer available in each studio, and sanitize the piano keyboards between lessons. Additionally, our faculty and staff wear masks, though for some instrumental lessons, this isn't possible. Woodwind and brass lessons would be an example of this. For these lessons, we prioritize the use of our largest studio to ensure safe social distancing.” The majority of students at JC Music take a 30-minute private lesson. All lessons take place in the Education Center. Amid the pandemic, however, JC Music is offering virtu-

“Our teachers are very happy to be back working with their students,” Matyasovsky said. “They've been very helpful in implementing our safety procedures, and have been supportive of the options to teach online where needed.”

Keys and Strings Once the pandemic hit, staff at Keys and Strings, 321 N. Colony Road in Wallingford, prepared to teach lessons on any virtual platform including Zoom, Skype, FaceTime and Google. Because people are using technology more, some of Keys and Strings’ client base went down.

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am not in the room with them to help them out, there is a little bit more of they have to figure it out on a deeper level because they know I’m not there to move their finger, I’m not there to physically reach over and position their hand in the right spot.”

rooms have either a window or my room has a glass wall so you could see when people were walking by so I found for those students, they’ve really blown me away with how they’ve improved in their studies.”

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Pat Russo, co-owner of Pat Russo Music, 424 N. Colony Road in Wallingford, has also noticed that some students “Kids were so burnt from be- have been flourishing in viring online during the actual tual study. shutdown that doing any“When we went online, I thing else on the computer was just too much and actu- had kids that were making their way like usual, excel,” ally some adults too,” said Sandie Apuzzo, director and Russo said. “Like just completely taking off. I feel as owner. “They couldn’t hanthough because they know I dle work and then something that was supposed to be their relaxation and their joy was like work now. So If you need a tub or they took breaks too.” At the beginning of virtual study, the biggest challenge was students forgetting to call into their lesson time. “In the beginning, a lot of kids were home alone or parents were working and they might say, ‘call into your lesson,’ but they didn’t always know what to do,” Apuzzo said. “Now, things are much better, but the first few weeks in March were challenging. It was a lot of communication… But now, we’ve got it pretty well under control.” Even though only 12 students are being taught inperson right now, Apuzzo said some students are succeeding in virtual study. “Some of them weren’t flourishing in face-to-face real time lessons,” Apuzzo said. “They became more focused, there were less distractions of hearing other lessons going on. All of our

Pat Russo Music opened to offer in-person classes on June 20. Russo said that as of right now, 60 percent of the students are taking in-person lessons. With the mixture of in-person and online classes, Russo said it can be a long day of teaching and cleaning the rooms in between in-person lessons.

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College News Locals in College Adelphi University, Garden City, N.Y., has named Christina Wu to its dean’s list for the spring semester. American International College, Springfield, Mass., has named Jacob Sweigard to its dean’s list for the spring semester. Assumption College, Worcester, Mass., has named the following students to its dean’s list for the spring semester: Ethan Fuoco, Megan Horvath. Belmont University, Nashville, Tenn., has named Jennifer Soeters to its dean’s list for the spring s Bentley University, Waltham, Mass., has named Dennis Ryley to its dean’s list for the spring semester. Boston University, Boston, Mass., has named David Caron, and Kelsea Mann to its dean’s list for the spring semester. Bryant University, Smithfield, R.I., has named Hayley Bobok, Dylan Clark, Brooke Denne, Connor Dubois, Samantha Grenon, Taylor McKinley, Aidan Murray, Mark Rubin, Jillian Ulicki, to its dean’s list for the spring semester. Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa., awarded Olivea Kieffer

a bachelor’s degree in literary studies. Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa., has named Olivea Kieffer and Jack Fiala to its dean’s list. Champlain College, Burlington, Vt., has named Patton Jarrell to the trustees list for the spring semester. Champlain College, Burlington, Vt., has named Tyler Brabant to its dean’s list for the spring semester. College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass., has awarded magna cum laude bachelor’s degree to Maggie Trunk. College of St. Rose, Albany, N.Y., has named Austin Ingarra to its dean’s list for the spring semester. College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., has named Anna Gleason to its dean’s list for the spring semester. Connecticut College,New London, has named the following students to its dean’s list for the spring semester: Sarah Clark, Isaac Moskowitz, Emily Schwab. Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, has named Elisabeth Cretella, Elizabeth Harris, Katherine Harris, Megan Hodgdon, to its dean’s list for the spring semester. Endicott College, Beverly,

Mass., has named the following students to its dean’s list for the spring semester: Justine Connelly, Meghan Dutchyshyn, Samantha Hines, Meaghan Hogan, Jessica Mollin, Karly Pedbereznak, Benjamin Schena, Kirsten Slade, Katherine Tomko. Fairfield University, Fairfield, congratulates undergarduate and graduate degree recipients: Karen J. Caldwell, Katie J. Caldwell, Jennifer H. Cavazuti, Denise Costello, Clare M. French, Ryan M. Gallagher, Erka Kodra, Julia A. Mayer, Erin H. Mellitt, Kyle P. Simonetta, Cara R. Walsh. Fairfield University, Fairfield, has named the following students to its dean’s list for the spring semester: Karen Caldwell, Katie Caldwell, Joseph Cannata, Jennifer Cavazuti, Donald Ciampi, Anthony Cifarelli, Clare French, Ryan Gallagher, Christian Hakim, Caroline Kent, Erka Kodra, Kayla Lapointe, Caroline Mayer, Julia Mayer, Erin Mellitt, Samantha Oris, Brian Perrotti, Cara Walsh. Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pa., has named Amanda Addesso and Matthew Urbano to its dean’s list for the spring semester. Hofstra University, Hempstead, N.Y., has named the following students to its dean’s list

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dean’s list for the spring semester. Purchase College SUNY, Purchase, N.Y., has named Sarah Joseph and Nicholas Motmans to its dean’s list for the spring semester. Plymouth State University, Plymouth, N.H., has named Alexander Conrod and John Waldron to its dean’s list for the spring semester. Roger Williams University, Bristol, R.I., has named the following students to its dean’s list for its spring semester: Carson Andes, Allison Bradley, Kaitlyn Carboni, Maddisen Fostyni, Andrew Hart, Todd Fournier, and Veronica Schaefer. Springfield College, Springfield, Mass., has named Zachary Racow, Sara Mulligan, Heath Post, Kaylie Behuniak, Sara Taylor, and Hannah Salvietti, to its dean’s list for the spring semester. Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven has named the following students to its dean’s list for the spring semester: Natalie Arneson, Angela Chiaravalloti, Isabella Corradi, Derrick D'Amato, Jared Dennehy, Colleen Fitzgerald, Deirdre Fitzpatrick, Danielle Fletcher, Giu-

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get to share their experiences,” said owner Gerry Barker. “The grandparents get to share their experience as a child when they see items from their past...” Private tours are $20 an hour for a group of five or less and are offered Tuesday through Friday from 12 to 4 p.m. The museum is located at 1188 Highland Ave.

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“We close from 1 to 2 p.m. each day so that the crew can clean all of the high touch surfaces,” Lappe said. “We also are requiring folks to purchase their tickets in advance so that it reduces exposure when they enter. That’s one less person they have to come in contact with.” When the museum closed in March it made the pivot to digital content.

“We very quickly began to build online offerings on our website to the point where Everyone in the group will now it is super robust with get their temperature all sorts of online offerings checked and are required to from art projects to curator wear a face mask. Hand sanconversations to live and pre itizer is available. recorded lectures and panel discussions on special exhi“We’re hoping we’re bringbitions,” Lappe said. “It is ing some joy and opportunipretty remarkable what our ties for families to get out small staff was able to acand have a chance to experi- Bonnie Plourde, interim curator at The Barnes Museum in Southington, talks on ence all of the joys of the Wednesday about a toy Ferris wheel given to Bradley Barnes for Christmas in 1893 at the complish in such a short museum,” Barker said. museum. 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Main St. 2,500 local school children. search or see the museum we can answer questions as The Barnes Museum upon request, according to they come in from the comNew Britain Museum “We’ve gotten nothing but Ruth Borsuk, past president, For the Barnes Museum in munity.” beautiful responses from our web mistress and newsletter Southington, the greatest of American Art families and our teachers Tours of the Barnes Museum impact of the pandemic is editor. The New Britain Museum of who are so appreciative of are scheduled by appointnot having the in-person American Art reopened July the supplies for their chil“... you would call us, we’ll ment for families of four or connections the staff made 14. The first couple of dren, the diversion to keep schedule you to come fewer. Hand sanitizer is ofwith patrons. In order to still days were reserved for estheir kids busy at home with in...and we’d walk through,” make these connections, the fered on the way in and out sential and front line worksuch a high quality project,” Borsuk said. “We try to limit museum is now offering vir- and throughout the museers. Lappe said. the number of people that um. Masks are required. tual programming. we have at the same time in “We welcomed their entire The New Britain Museum of “We do have 15-minute “So we’ve shifted our focus the building.” families into the museum for American Art has adjusted buffer time in between each to virtual programming so free and they came with its exhibition schedule to be The temperature of visitors tour so that we could go we cannot only continue to their kids and their families is taken and masks and educate the public about the through and wipe down the and everyone was in a mask fully committed to delivering its 2020/20+ Women at gloves must be worn. The handrails and the doorknobs amazing museum but also museum is located at 424 W. kind of brighten everyone’s and anything that may have and everyone was so happy,” NBMAA Initiative. said Lisa Lappe, director of Main St. been touched,” Sadowski day at the same time “We are presenting art by at marketing. through these very unprece- said. least 20 female-identifying Borsuk is hoping the Octodented times,” said Bonnie artists as part of celebrating ber exhibit will be open to By offering these virtual pro- Then there were two days reserved for museum memPlourde, interim curator and grams, Plourde is hoping to the centennial of women’s the public. If not, it will be bers. suffrage,” Lappe said. “... It’s offered online. Other online caretaker. give “someone a vacation such an important initiative programs are also currently The museum officially The virtual programming in- from their own home.” being planned. opened to the general public that we launched at the becludes Song of the Steinway, “During the pandemic and ginning of the year and on July 18. A total of 15 visiwhere Plourde plays songs “The next exhibit is going to during the time of uncerwe’re committed to presentbe about sin or I call it vice,” on a 1914 restored piano, tainty life can be very stress- tors are allowed every 15 ing all of the exhibitions, just minutes, keeping the buildand What is it Wednesdays. Borsuk said. “Vice in Meriful,” she added. “Changes adjusting the schedule.” ing capacity around 10 perden. That would be a preare always coming down What is it Wednesdays “is cent. No in-person special The museum is located at 58 sentation of all sorts of artiand affecting our everyday usually live but not always events are offered and the Lexington St. cles and items that were pro- because we’ve had some lives, but to be able to museum is only open duced in the city that actual- special guests lately where brighten someone’s day, jsimms@record-journal.com Wednesday through Sunly catered to vice like for 203-317-2208 Bonnie talks about a specific even if it is by listening to a day, with two days dedicated Twitter: @jessica_simms99 drinking, for smoking, gam- artifact or facet of the muse- song or teaching them to thorough cleaning. bling, so that would be our

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tiana Rose, Sarah Salvati, Andie Sansone, Lauren Segal, Paula Torres, Natalie Vetto, Matthew Zarra. Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, N.H., has named Nicholas Karas and Joshua Mills. Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, N.H., has named Ellen Albanese, Sabrina DiSorbo, Feize Turkman to its

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president’s list for the spring semester. St. Anselm College, Manchester, N.H., has awarded Cassidy Duffany, a bachelor’s degree in fiance and marketing cum laude. SUNY Delhi, Delhi, N.Y., has awarded Chase Livingston with a certificate degree in Plumbing, Heating and pipefitting and an associate’s degree in refrigeration and instrumentation. The Citadel, Charleston, S.C., has awarded Ross I. Caterino a master’s degree in health exercise sport science at its commencement in May. University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala., has named Margaret Ardesia, and Zoe Kasinskas to its dean’s list for the spring semester. UMass Lowell, Lowell, Mass., has named Xi Cai to its dean’s list for the spring semester. University of Delaware, Newark, Del., has named the following students to its dean’s list for the spring semester: Elizabeth Flight, Eli Haskes, Dylan Hick, Evan Perlroth, Riley Pettit, and Nathan Pisani. University of New England, Bidderford and Portland, Maine, has named the following students

to its dean’s list for the spring semester: Stephen Carbone, Chloe Davis, and Antonio Giano. University of New Hampshire, Durham, N.H., has awarded Jacob Verneris a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering; Colin Abrecht, cum laude with a bachlor’s degree in finance; Eric Penner, cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in accounting. University of New Hampshire, Durham, N.H., has named the following students to its dean’s list for the spring semester: Colin Albrecht, Peter Marcouiller, Grace McCall, Sarah Lombardi, Gabrielle Barocsi, Eric Penner, Emily Murphy. University of New Haven, W. Haven, has named the following students to its dean’s list for the spring semester: Annie Acquavita, Amani Bedford, Ray Dayton, Olivia Emerson, Emily Russolillo, Matthew Schock, Benjamin Shadeck, Serena Steskla. University of Rhode Island, Kingston, R.I., has named Alaina Capasso, Ryan Cyr, Hannah Dale, Summer Fohl, Michelle Frenkel, Katie Gallagher, Emily Glatt, Emily Gotowala, Lily Graham, Jennie Grubov, Colby Hayes, Charles

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