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Contents — October 2015

Solving the World’s Problems, KentPresents .... page 4Making Roads Safe for Cycles ................................. page 9Memories of Summers Past ................................... page 11So Many Cheeses, All Delicious ............................ page 13 What Kent Readers Like Best ................................ page 14Making Love and the AT Last a Lifetime ............ page 15Ethnic Delights at a Classic Diner ....................... page 18Elegant Snacks, To Stay or To Go .......................... page 23

Boys and Girls in the Boat: Kent School Crew .... page 24Helping To Grow a Farm Community .............. page 26Kent Resources/Advertiser Index ....................... page 30

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You can put on a costume and participate in the

Pumpkin Run (held this year on Sunday, Oct. 25, on theGreen), pick some apples or view an art exhibit.

Kent is the perfect destination for cyclists and hikers.

Read about a group of cyclists who meet in town, and

enjoy Appalachian Trail tips from Elaine LaBella and Ann

Sherwood (who found love and marriage on the trail).

Kent is also a place to exercise the mind. The first

KentPresents event featured seminars on politics, world

issues, health care, the arts and more. And you can always

browse the hoest titles at House of Books.

Eateries featured in these pages include 109 Cheese

and Wine, The Villager and JP Gifford Market and Catering

Company. You can also purchase local meat and produce atweekly farmers markets.

For a fun look back, read about the championship Kent

School crew team and view photos of past summer camps.

And to find the latest Kent news, be sure to pick up The

Lakeville Journal every week.

Discover KentBy Darryl Gangloff

The cover of this edition of Discover Kent

captures the wide array of activities waiting

to be enjoyed in this beautiful town.


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At first glance, Kent doesn’t seem like a

town where urgent contemporary topics are

discussed among world leaders, and whereimportant, life-changing ideas are incubated

and then bandied about.

It seems more like an iconic peaceful old New

England town, perfect for vacationing, gallery

hopping, dining and generally not thinking too hard

about anything other than what type of seasonal beer

to order from Kent Falls Brewing Co.

KentPresents has changed all that. Kent residents

Ben and Donna Rosen dreamed it up and pulled it

all together over the course of a year, inaugurating

their version of the prestigious Aspen Ideas Festival in August 2015.

“We wanted to find a way to give back to the

community,” said Ben Rosen, who moved here with

Donna shortly after they married 13 years ago. They

both hail from New Orleans, where Donna owned

Galerie Simone Stern for 23 years.

Her husband is a venture capitalist and chairman

emeritus of Compaq Computers.

One evening they were discussing projects they’d

like to do here in their new hometown and a friend

called and was effusive about what a wonderful time

he’d just had at the Aspen Ideas Festival. The Rosens

immediately began planning their own version of

the festival, with leaders in a wide variety of fields

invited to this rural New England town to take part in

seminars on important topics.

Participation was limited to 300 guests. There

were about 70 speakers and seminar leaders. Tickets

started out at $1,750 each for the three-day festival.

They started selling so quickly that the Rosens raised

the price to $1,950 (and people kept buying them).

A portion of the funds will help pay for the cost

of puing on the seminar. But what’s left will bedisbursed to the community by a commiee of local

residents (for 2015, Ken Cooper is in charge of the

group).

By all reports, the first-ever KentPresents was

astonishingly well-organized, from the welcome

cocktail party on the opening Thursday night to the

end-of-festival barbecue dinner.

The weather was perfect — and it was noted by all

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KentPresents was created by Ben

and Donna Rosen.

until the last guests were leaving

on Saturday evening before lashing

Kent with rain and high winds.

The Rosens sent out surveys to

the guests after the festival ended,

and had a 50 percent return rate

within about three weeks. The

responses were wildly positive. The

main thing that people complainedabout, Ben Rosen said, was that

it was too hard to choose which

seminar to aend.

The sessions were all held at

the Kent School. On the opening

evening, everyone aended a one-

hour talk about “U.S. Risks Around

the World” with Ambassador

William Burns (now president

of the Carnegie Endowment for

International Peace) and New

York Times National Security

Correspondent David Sanger. On

Friday and Saturday, there werethree seminars offered every hour.

Not all of them were about world

affairs, although the Rosens said

Continued on page 6

The Rosens immediately began planning

their own version of the Aspen Ideas

Festival, with leaders in a wide variety of

fields invited to this rural New England town

to take part in seminars on important topics.


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KentPresents …

Continued from page 5

that those addressing politics and

world issues were the most popular

ones. Other topics included health

and health care (“Cancer — Research

Prevention and Treatment” withNobel Prize winner Jack Varmus

and Memorial Sloan Keering

Cancer Center’s Dr. Paul Marks);

the arts (some of the most famous

names in contemporary theater

were there — too many in fact to

list in this article; and there were

also leaders of major American

art museums, talking about the

future of museums, galleries,

auction houses); cars (JB Straubel

of Tesla Motors, very popularwith young people from the

community who had volunteered

to help with KentPresents); of

course sex (although surprisingly

the talk on “Sex in America” with

journalist Judith Shulevitz and

Nicholas Lemann was less popular

than the talks on GMO foods with

Whole Earth Catalog founder

Stewart Brand and the session on

cyberterrorism with journalists Jim

Hoge, Sanger and Joe Nocera).The speakers had traveled here

from all across America and some

parts of Europe. And of course

a few local folks were invited

to take part: Henry Kissinger.

Christopher Buckley. The BBC’s

Frank Delaney and Ronald Reagan

biographer Edmund Morris. Tony

Award-winning director Richard

Maltby Jr. (who among other

accomplishments was a co-lyricist

for “Miss Saigon”). What particularly pleased the

Rosens was that people who were

already very well educated were

hearing about issues that were

important to them, issues about

Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, author

of “The Emperor of All Maladies,”

spoke about his specialty: cancer

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which they were already well-

informed — and that sometimes they

were walking out of sessions with

changed viewpoints. And apparently

it happened without any shouting

or arguing, which is appropriate to

an event that is described as havinga delicious flavoring of Southern

hospitality, thanks to the roots of the

host and hostess.

So of course everyone who

aended in 2015 wants to come

back next summer. This worries

the Rosens a bit, since they are

hoping to have fresh ideas every

year. Certainly the presenters

will all be different in 2016, they

promise. As for the guests, well,

that will all depend on who gets tothe KentPresents website fastest to

order their tickets. It hasn’t been

decided yet when the tickets will go

on sale; check in from time to time

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Held on the campus of the Kent School, the conference aracted 300

guests of varying ages and backgrounds.


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The motorcycles that line Kent’s

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eyecatching and large that it’s

easy to miss the smaller cycles

that are stacked neatly alongwalls in the center of town.

Cyclists of the non-motorized

variety also love Kent, for its scenic

views and winding rural roads. And

they like to stop in town for some

refreshment at the end or middle of

their trek.

On a late-summer Saturday, a

group of cyclists was gathered

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the middle of their ride. They are pleased to note that the servers there

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“And we always stop at Kent Coffee

and Chocolate,” they said.

They try to stay off the main

routes, preferring small back roads

that don’t have a center line.“Cars can’t go as fast on a road

that’s small and twisty,” they said.

They all expressed a wish that the

state’s 3-foot berth law were more

widely enforced. In Connecticut,

drivers are required to pull out when

they pass bicyclists so that there is

a distance of 3 feet between car and

bike. Cars are allowed, according to

the law, to cross the double yellow

line if necessary to avoid the bikes.

The law was updated this summer.Formerly, it said that cyclists had to

stay as far to the right as possible.

Now the law says a cyclist can use his

or her judgment to decide the safest

spot as far to the right as possible.

Continued from page 9 A Push-Off For Cyclists

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Cyclists who want to go out

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expert tips on the best and most

beautiful roads can contact

the company for its maps of

Litchfield County cycling routes.

The company also rents out

bikes and other equipment,andwill even meet visitors to the

area at the train station.

To learn more, go to www.

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Megan Sparks observed the fall

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What could be more appropriate for a summer-

long exhibition at a historical society than a

history of summer camps?Of course, not all towns have had even a single

summer camp; Kent, however, had about a dozen, and

they provided a rich source of materials for the Kent

Historical Society’s summer 2015 show.

Many of the young boys and girls who aended Camp

Po-Ne-Ma, Camp Francis, Camp Kenmont-Kenwood,

Camp Leonard/Leonore (now Club Getaway), Camp Kent,

Kenico, Geer Mountain Camp, Camp Milford and others

returned to see the exhibit, and to take part in reunions

and camp-themed hikes over the summer.

They brought with them their old photos and special

memories (including all the words and hand signals for

camp songs).

The summer camp exhibition was put together by

Historical Society board member Melissa Roth Cherniske

and Historical Society Curator Marge Smith. In addition

to making plans now for the summer 2016 exhibition,

they are curating the society’s Sunday Series lectures.

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The most popular item at the

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as one in Ridgefield with her

husband, Todd), is the grilled cheese

sandwich.

“It’s made with the most amazing

proprietary cheese blend,” she

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the mix includes Vermont cheddar,

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Monica Brown, co-owner of

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her husband, Todd, sellsmany delectable goodies in

addition to cheese.

Prey much the same items tend

to be popular at the Kent shop as at

the Ridgefield shop, although therange is wide and varied.

“Different people have different

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The hot books this summer at the

House of Books on Main Street were

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David Lagercrantz (a new book inthe Millenium series started by the

late Stieg Larsson).

Bookstore owner Robin Dill-Herde said

that “Spider’s Web” in particular has been

“flying off the shelf.”

In general, she said, history books are

the strongest sellers at the store, especially

ones about World War II. When asked

whether people tend to buy hardcover or

softcover books, she said that hardcoverstend to sell particularly well.

“I also sell a tremendous amount of

greeting cards,” she said, as well as games,

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Elaine LaBella, background in photo, and her spouse,

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To say that the Appalachian Trail (AT) is like

life is at best a metaphor and at worst a cliché.

Probably the same can be said of comparing the

trail to marriage.

But for Elaine LaBella and Ann Sherwood, the trail

actually is at the core of their marriage. And the trail is

also like their child.

They met in 1994 at an AT trail maintenance “party”

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wanted to volunteer their time and

energy to clearing brush and rocks

and picking up trash, to keeping this

section of the 2,180-mile national

trail clean.

“The Appalachian Trail is theunique national park in this

country,” Sherwood said.

“It’s entirely managed and

maintained by volunteers,” LaBella

said.

“Love” is a word that these

volunteers use a lot when they talk

about the trail. But love wasn’t

what anyone was looking for at that

October work party. Nonetheless,

there was a spark that led over

time to a relationship and then a

commitment ceremony and then a

civil union and, at last, a marriage,

in 2012.

“Even though I rolled a big rock

on her foot at that maintenance

party,” Sherwood says. LaBella smiles

and politely says, “I have no memory

of that.” It’s clear that this is a

dialogue that recurs.

It was the Appalachian Trail that

brought them together and it isthe trail that offers them reasons

and ways to stay together. While no

one knows what the secret is to a

long and happy marriage, having a

common interest can’t hurt. LaBella

and Sherwood have both been in

love with hiking in general and the

Appalachian Trail in particular for

nearly all their lives. They are both

volunteers with the Connecticut

Chapter of the Appalachian

Mountain Club Appalachian TrailCommiee; Sherwood was the

commiee’s chairperson from

1998 to about 2003. They each have

a separate section of the trail that

they “maintain,” but they go out and

maintain those sections together;

their sections are near their home in

Kent.


LaBella and Sherwood stopped at the St. John’s Ledge entrance to the AT

to remind a group of hikers to keep the trail clean and intact.

Sometimes this maintenance

work involves light weeding.

Sometimes it involves taking a

firm hand with non-native invasive

plants that want to destroy the

native vegetation or cuing downed

trees with chainsaws.

Note to hikers: The AT

volunteers do not try to control

poison ivy growing on or along

the trail.It’s a native plant and it grows,

so watch out. Wash with Tecnu Skin

Cleanser after a hike.

More often their work involves

moving heavy stones and shoveling

dirt to create “water bars,” which

are sort of like culverts. They are

designed to move water off the path

and keep it from forming puddles.

Note to hikers: AT maintainers

don’t want you to walk on the

water bars.

Walking on them not only

disturbs the shape of the water

bars, it also widens the path, which

increases erosion. Hikers are asked

to stay on the path that’s been

carefully carved out for them.

Stepping off the path also killsvegetation.

“We want to minimize the

disturbance and the footprint,”

LaBella said.

Note to hikers: Don’t walk

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“It’s important to respect

the rights of our AT neighbors.”


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though it’s easier).

This is especially important in

places where the Appalachian Trail

only has a very narrow corridor and

in places where the trail only has

an easement across someone else’s

property.

“It’s important to respect the

rights of our AT neighbors,” LaBella

said.

This is how, in a sense, the

AT is like a child. It requires

constant care and aention. The

hikers are also like the children

of the maintainers and must be

constantly reminded to clean up

after themselves and be respectful,not just of the neighbors but also of

the trail and of the land.

On a recent summer afternoon,

LaBella and Sherwood took this

reporter for a walk up to one of


Continued from page 17 the most famous portions of the

Connecticut AT. It’s called St. John’s

Ledges and it’s popular with rock

climbers. In fact, as we arrived at

the trail head a large group was

gathered around a coach bus that

said REI in big leers on its side.

“Uh-oh, customers,” LaBella said.

She was wielding a very large and

heavy pair of clippers. Sherwood had

in her hands a lethal-looking hoe of

some sort that she uses to clear off

those water bars.

They strode up to the bus and

addressed the group, reminding

them not to take shortcuts through

the woods. They gave the shorthand

reminder that all hikers are

expected to remember:• Carry out everything that you

came in with.

• Leave only footprints; take

only photos.

It was a short lesson, designed

for day hikers (another metaphor/

cliché: the AT is like a classroom).

For long-distance hikers, and of

course for the thru-hikers who

follow the trail all the way from

Georgia to Maine or vice versa,

there are other rules of the road

that should be respected. Why, one

might ask? Doesn’t that take away

the fun and adventure of a massive

walk in the woods? Doesn’t it keep

hikers from fully communing with

nature?

In fact, what really keeps hikers

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remember a very different

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LaBella recalled. “People were

camping indiscriminately, there

were big sterile areas where people

built fires.”

In areas where there are a lot of

fires, the ground gets compactedand sterile, meaning plants can’t

grow there.

“Here in the Northwest Corner,

there are many historic sites where

fires were built as part of the iron

industry,” LaBella said. “It took about

a hundred years for vegetation to be

able to grow there again.

“Fires are very destructive to the

natural balance.”

Note to hikers: Campfires are a

big problem, and they are illegal

on the Connecticut section of

the AT. Don’t build a fire; bring a

camp stove on your hike.

Camping should also be done



in designated areas. This mighttake away some of the sense of

being lost in the wilderness, “but

concentrating use minimizes our

impact on trail lands,” LaBella said.

Definitely people do hike alone

on the AT, but if one is looking for

solitude, there are probably other

beer places to find it. About 50

people every day in hiking season

start in Georgia and aempt to make

it by foot to Maine. Many of those

hikers won’t make it, but many of

them will, and there will also be

section hikers and day hikers who

join in along the way.

Hiking together can be fun,

as LaBella and Sherwood havediscovered. Of the two of them,

LaBella is more of a loner and

enjoys hiking alone. But when they

hike together, she and Sherwood

agreed, there are many tangible and

intangible benefits.

• They can split their gear

between two backpacks, for

example.

• They have someone to share

nature moments with, such as

the sighting of an eagle or a small

but unusual bug or lizard.

• They can offer emotional

support.

“Sometimes you have a bad day

“Here in the Northwest Corner, there are many

historic sites where fires were built as part of the

iron industry. It took about a hundred years for

vegetation to be able to grow there again.”


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on the trail and it’s nice to have

someone there to bolster you up,”

Sherwood said.

But there is a downside to the

social aspect of the trail.

“There’s a new trend toward

people painting graffiti on the rocks

along the trail and then taking‘selfie’ photos of themselves,”

LaBella said. “Please don’t do that.”

So, yes, there are a lot of rules for

hiking on the trail. In that sense, the

AT is like a community (and yes, this

is another metaphor). There are a lot

of people sharing a small space and

everyone is happier if certain rules

are obeyed.

Don’t think of them as rules;

think of them as tips that will make

the walk more pleasant, for you and

everyone else.

And of course anyone who would

like to join an AT work “party” is

heartily invited. To find out when

and where, go to www.ct-amc.org,

click on “volunteer opportunities”

and then on “trail maintenance.”

The website is also the place to get

information on actual AT parties,

such as the annual Grand Barbecue

Hints for Long-Distance Hikers• Walking sticks are helpful; especially if you’re in the over-40

demographic, they make life easier.

• Wearing a brimmed hat with a mesh bug headnet can help make the

small insects on the trail less annoying; they keep the bugs at least

out of your eyes. If the bugs are really banging into your face, as they

sometimes do, wrap an old worn-out bandana around your head

(“You can even read a map through the fabric,” Sherwood said).

• The best pants for hiking are lightweight synthetic zip-off-leg pants;

they can be both shorts and long pants depending on your needs.

Surgical scrubs are excellent for doing trail work. They arelightweight and sturdy and more comfortable than denim.

• For footwear, LaBella recommends “a good-fiing sneaker-style

shoe with fairly stiff soles.” Trail running shoes are comfortable and

lightweight. She likes ones that are from a company called Lowa.

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Crew Champions Pull Together When It Counts

Take a look at its history: FatherFrederick Herbert Sill founded the

private boarding school for boys (at

that time) in 1906 in Kent specifically

because it was on a river.

“Father Sill was a coxswain on

the Columbia University team,” saidGarrison Smith, who is now a science

teacher and coach of the girls crew

at the school (women were admied

as students in 1960 and the first girls

crew started in 1972).

The river doesn’t exactly run through the campus of the Kent School,

but the Housatonic certainly runs alongside the co-ed boarding

school, and the waterway has exerted a mighty influence on it.

There wasn’t a lot of spare money

floating around in those days, and for

the first few years Father Sill devoted

all his energy to starting the academic

side of the school. By 1922, there was

enough money for Sill to purchasesome boats and oars and start a team

(of which he was the coach). It wasn’t

long before the team was famous

enough to earn a cover story in Life

magazine in the 1920s, and to be

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The Kent School crew has earned invitations to races around the world

for nearly a century.

featured in an article in the July 1, 1933,

issue of The New Yorker.

That 1933 article detailed Sill’s

history in the sport (he was on the

championship Columbia team of

the late 1890s) and said he bought

used equipment from the New York

Athletic Club to get his team started.

Rowing is an integral part of the

school’s DNA. Smith pointed out

during an interview in the school’s

luxurious Partridge Rowing Center

that Kent School has had five

headmasters but only four crew

coaches for the boys team. One of

those coaches is Eric Houston, who

graduated from Kent in 1980, went

to Trinity for four years and returned

to Kent to serve as assistant coach toHart Perry. Perry was the school’s third

crew coach, following Tote Walker and

the first coach, Father Sill.

Although he never met Sill,

Houston worked with Perry and met

Walker. And of course he is passing

along the crew traditions to Smith —

who is on his own a font of Kent crew

history.Smith started rowing while at Yale

University (he graduated in 1995). He

was also a hockey player there.

“I’m 6 foot 3 and I was always one of

the bigger guys on the hockey team,”

he said. “It wasn’t until I started

rowing that I felt short.”

He and Houston agreed that the

major change in rowing over theyears is the size of the athletes.

“They’re geing bigger and

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What It Means To Be An Organic Farmer

Although Kent is a town with

a deep farming history, it’s a

fairly new development that

meat and produce from the

farms is available at weekly farmers markets.

The Kent Land Trust’s Marble

Valley Farm has sold produce at the

farm on Route 7 for several years.

Like most vegetable growers in the

region, farmer Megan Haney said

summer 2015 started slow but ended

with high yields of nearly everything

she planted.

Maria and Vince LaFontan of

Mountain View Farm in Kent alsohad a remarkable year, not only for

growing produce but also for selling

it. They were among the inaugural

farmers at the new Friday evening

market in the center of town, on

what used to be the Town and

Country car lot.

The LaFontans are among a small

group of farmers who are pioneers at

the market.

“Jayne Ridgway of Cornwall is the

market master,” Maria LaFontan said.

“The Kent Chamber of Commerce put

the market together, with most of the

legwork done by Dave Fairty, Peter

D’Aprile and Bill Morrison.”

All the participating farmers are

in Kent or within a few miles of town,

LaFontan said. “Camps Road Farm is

in Kent, they sell chicken. We have

Ridgway Farm from Cornwall and we

have Cornwall Soap. The Hurlburts

are from Cornwall, they sell meat.Two people are selling herbs, and one

is also selling lamb.”

The new bakery in Kent, So

Delicious, is right next to the market.

“They always bring some pies and

other treats to sell,” LaFontan said.

The LaFontans have been selling

their produce for 13 years at the New

Milford farmers market.

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Maria LaFontan, in photo above, and her husband, Vincent, started by

farming for themselves for fun. It was, in fact, so much fun that they

decided to do it for a living. Now, in addition to crops such as garlic

(below, left) they also sell farm-raised pork.

“We’ve been farming for, let’s see,

15 years now, and we’ve been at New

Milford for 13,” she said.

She described New Milford’s

Saturday market as “very nice, an

authentic farmers market,” meaning

that the vendors are selling only

things that they’ve grown, raised orproduced themselves. At the Kent

market, she said, “We’re trying to do

the same thing.”

They also have a farmstand in

the garage on their property, which

is sometimes managed by their

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at the University of Connecticut)

and Abigail (17 and a student at

Housatonic Valley Regional High

School), and other area teens.

“I always gave them a choice,”

LaFontan said. “They had to have a job but they could decide where they

wanted to work. They both opted to

stay on the farm.”

Farming is very much a family

affair for the LaFontans. Vince

LaFontan (a former Kent selectman)

is the son of Andre LaFontan, who

was famous in the area for the high-

quality humus he sold from his

property on Camps Flat Road, until

the business closed in 1993.

Maria LaFontan grew up inTorrington, but her parents were

German immigrants who kept a

small family farm.

“We were always self sustaining,”

she said. “We had our own animals,

we made our own sausages and

meats. We gardened and canned and

froze. It’s the way I grew up.”

Maria and Vince, who are in

their early 40s, met while they

were students at the University of

Connecticut. They decided to sele

in Kent and started with growing

vegetables for themselves in their

own garden.

“And it just naturally grew from

there,” Maria said.

She takes obvious pride in her

daughters, whom she said, “know

how to grow and nurture and

harvest. They love running the

farmstand and interacting with the

customer. They’ve learned how tomanage money.”

Because of course there’s a lot

more to farming than just growing

things. There is also the business

side, which is especially complex for

Mountain View, which is a certified

organic farm — which means that

the federal government decides

whether the farm’s practices and

procedures meet their standards.

“It’s expensive to get certified,”

Maria said. “You have to pay an

inspector to come a couple times

a year and prove that what you’re

growing is actually organic.

“But there are grants from the

USDA to offset your expenses by 75

percent.

“More than just the expense, it’s

also a lot of work. Because you’re

being inspected, you have to pay

really close aention to detail and

keep records. They want to see where

you got your seed, how you grow it,

how you harvest it, how you sell it.

“A lot of farmers are ‘almost

organic,’” she said, but aren’t able

or willing to do the extra paperworkand pay the extra costs. The

LaFontans are willing to do it and

are pleased to be able to say their

produce is certified organic.

“The main thing is to get organic

seed, which is expensive but to be

certified organic, you have to have

organic seeds,” Maria said. Seed

saving would be a money-saving

possibility but it’s not that easy.

“There’s a lot of cross pollination.

You need to keep a certain distance

between certain plants. I’ve grown

saved seed and what I grew wasn’t

always what I expected. If you want

to save seeds, you’re almost beer off

growing for that purpose. Then you

can make sure everything is amply

spaced apart and you can grow the

plant to its fullest and biggest extent

so you can have the best seeds. It’s a

different thing.”

In addition to produce, the

LaFontans raise pork, which they sell

through the winter.

“We also raised turkeys this

year, and we’ll have them for

Thanksgiving.”To order a turkey or to learn

more about Mountain View Farm,

go to www.mountainviewfarmkent.

com; or come to the Kent farmers

market, Friday afternoons from 3 to

6:30 p.m.

The New Milford market

continues through much of the

winter. To learn more, go to www.

newmilfordfarmersmarket.com.

PHOTOS COURTESY MARIA LAFONTAN

For farmers, it’s impossible to know what the weather will bring before

the summer begins; but 2015 for most Northwest Corner farmers was an

exceptional year for peppers and tomatoes.

“I always gave them a choice. They had

to have a job but they could decide where

they wanted to work. They both opted to

stay on the farm.”


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Olympics, they estimated that the

average height of the women was

about 5 foot 9 and the average height

for the men is 6 foot 4 or 5.

Houston, just for the record, is 6

feet.The size of the rowing shells (or

boats) hasn’t changed, despite the

increased height of the rowers.

The Kent crew has several boats in

different sizes, including some that

hold eight rowers and the coxswain

(these boats are roughly 60 feet long),

others that hold four rowers and the

cox (a four plus), some that hold four

rowers and no cox (a four minus) and

some that hold two rowers and no

cox (this kind of boat is known as “apair”).

For those who don’t row and don’t

know, Houston and Smith shared

some terminology.

• Don’t say “crew team,” they

advised. A crew is a team.

• Don’t say someone rows crew.

They are on a crew, and they row, but

they don’t row crew.

• The boat that is used for rowing

is called either a boat or a shell (the

words are interchangeable).

• The hull of the boat refers to,

basically, the entire boat. The bow

is the front part, the part that cuts

through the water.

• The oars are called oars and they

are also called blades. Schools with

a long rowing history and a love

of tradition have special colors for

their blades. Kent’s oars are blue and

gray, the school’s colors (Father Sill

chose them because the Civil War wasstill vivid in his memory). The boys’

oars have what Smith and Houston

described as color “straight across,”

while the girls’ oars have what they

called “a chevron.”

• There are two kinds of rowing:

Sweep and sculling.

“We row sweep here,” Houston said.

“American prep high schools mostly

compete at sweep and all university

rowing is sweep.”In sweep, each rower has one oar

and the oars are on alternating sides

of the boat. In sculling, each rower has

two oars.

Both coaches feel that sculling

is probably beer for overall body

development, “because it uses both

sides of the body” but it really isn’t

done in this country very much.

Houston also observed that other

countries make more of an effort to

have youngsters enjoy boating andbeing in the water, what he called

“boat feel.”

At Kent, crew is almost exclusively

a spring sport. There is some rowing

in autumn, mainly as a club sport

on weekends, and the school will

sometimes compete in the prestigious

Head of the Charles Regaa in

Cambridge, Mass.

But the main competition season

for the rowers here is spring, and the

carrot at the end of the seasonal stick

is the possibility that the team will

compete at the Henley Royal Regaa

at Oxford University in England.

“We were the first American

‘schoolboy’ crew to be invited to

Henley, in 1927,” Houston said.

When the Kent crew competes at

Henley, each athlete gets a special

blue blazer with the school’s emblem

on it (it’s a Henley tradition). Two of

the old blazers hang at the PartridgeRowing Center, which was built next

to the school’s boathouse in 2005,

steps away from the river. The center

is an ultra-modern facility with a

special flotation tank for the boats,

ergometers and facilities for the boys

and the girls.

But it’s also like a mini-museum

of Kent School rowing history, full of

large and small cups and trophies,

old blue Henley blazers, magazinecovers and books featuring the team,

and lots and lots of photos. Upstairs,

suspended above the ergometers, is

one of the original Kent shells, made

by the legendary boatmaker George

Pocock (whose name is familiar

to anyone who read the recent

bestselling nonfiction book, “The Boys

in the Boat”).

But back to Henley. Some schools,

Houston and Smith said, will send a

team to England every year, if theycan.

At Kent School, Houston said, “They

have to earn that trip, on a lot of

levels. We want to send a respectable

team, and we want to represent the

school well.”

As with most school sports, the

coaches never know exactly what kind

of team they’ll have as the new season

begins. Students change dramatically

in size and ability from year to year.

Not everyone who competed one

year will compete the next year. And

because rowing requires everyone to

literally pull together, there are a lot

of personality and ability dynamics

that have to be worked out.

“There are some years where I’ll

have eight girls in a boat and they

won’t change seats all season,” Smith

said. “In other years, I’m constantly

changing who sits in what seats.”

The 2016 rowing season remainsunwrien. The girls and boys teams

could go all the way to win the New

England championships, as they’ve

done several times. They could make a

brilliant showing at Henley. It remains

to be seen, once the Housatonic River

thaws in spring. Stay tuned, and go to

www.kent-school.edu for the schedule

and location of races.

Crew Champions …

Continued from page 25The carrot at the end of the seasonal stick is the

possibility that the team will compete at the Henley

Royal Regatta at Oxford University in England.


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Kent Station Pharmacy ..........................................15Kent True Value Hardware................................10

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Building Department (Mon.-Fri., noon-3)

.......................................................................... 860-927-4556First Selectman (Mon.-Fri., 9-noon, 1-4)

.......................................................................... 860-927-4627

Fire Marshal (Tues. & Thurs., 3-4)

.......................................................................... 860-927-4556

Land Use (Mon.-Fri., 9-4 ) ..........860-927-4625

Park & Recreation (Mon.-Fri., 9:30-noon,

1-2:30) .........................................................860-927-1003

Probate Court (Tues., 9-noon) ..860-927-3729

Public Works (Mon.-Fri., 7:30-3:30)

.......................................................................... 860-927-4627

Registrars of Voters (Mon., 1-4)

.......................................................................... 860-927-1953

Resident Trooper ............................ 860-927-3134Social Services/Municipal Agent(Tues., 1:30-5, Wed., 8-4, Thurs., 8-11:30, Fri.8-4, Sat., 9-1 appt. recommended)

.......................................................................... 860-927-1586

Tax Collector (Mon., Tues., Wed., 9-noon & 1-4,

closed Thurs. and Fri.) ......................860-927-3269

Town Clerk (Mon.-Thurs., 9-4, Fri., 9-noon)

.......................................................................... 860-927-3433

Transfer Station (Sat. & Sun., 8-3:30)

.......................................................................... 860-927-4627

Treasurer (Tues. & Wed., 1-4, Fri., 9-12, 1-4)

.......................................................................... 860-927-0109

PUBLIC SAFETY

AND EMERGENCY SERVICES

Kent Volunteer Fire Department and

Ambulance

For emergencies .................................................................. 911

Other calls – Fire ...................................860-927-3151

State Police Troop L , Litchfield

For emergencies .................................................................. 911

Other calls ..................................................800-953-9949

PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND

COLLEGESExplorations Charter School, Winsted

.......................................................................... 860-738-9070

Housatonic Valley Regional High School,

Falls Village ...............................................860-824-5123

Kent Center School ........................860-927-3537

Northwestern Connecticut Community

College , Winsted ..................................860-738-6300

Oliver Wolcott Technical School, Torrington

.......................................................................... 860-496-5300

Buy Locally, Live Locally

Locally owned businesses such asthose seen in the pages of this direc-tory give character to our region andoffer an alternative to the chain storesthat now seem to control so much ofthe American landscape. Please sup-port these businesses, and the peoplewho work at them. They drive the areaeconomy and improve the quality oflife for all in the Tri-state region.

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WelcomingOur New Physicians

to the Community & Medical Staff at Sharon Hospital

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Emilia Genova, MDGeneral Surgery

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For more information,to meet Dr. Genova,

or to schedule an appointment,please call 860.364.4511.

Michelle Apiado, MDFamily Practice

Now Accepting Patients atRegional Family Care29 Hospital Hill Road

Suite 1400Sharon, CT

For more information,to meet Dr. Apiado,


Kristin Newton, MDFamily Practice

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