Arthur Rosenblatt’s effort to build an American market for the Flymo, a British-made lawnmower that hovered rather than rolled over grass, was not successful. It did, however, land him a guest spot on the popular TV game show, “What’s My Line?” The panel rather improbably guessed that he was the ad man behind the Flymo. […]
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Salisbury’s Joseph Meehan related his adventures as expedition photographer on several trips to the Arctic and Greenland to study the “Unicorn of the Sea” to an attentive audience in Noble’s Community Room on March 3. The so-called unicorn is, in fact, the narwhal, a small whale distinguished by a pike-like tooth as much as 9’
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Worried about the effects of climate change? We all are, but a leading expert in the field, Dr. Joshua Ginsberg, President of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York, told an audience at Noble Horizons not to lose hope. Dr. Ginsberg presented his program, “Climate Change: Five Reasons To Be Optimistic About
Noble welcomed two distinguished speakers on January 21. Nadine Strossen, president of the ACLU from 1991-2008, now a professor of law at NYU, discussed her new book, HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship, and her Harvard Law classmate and longtime friend, the Honorable William Kuntz II, United States District Court Judge
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It was a standing room only crowd who gathered in Noble’s Life Long Learning Center on November 3 for an information-packed lecture on the aftermath of World War I presented by Hamish Lutris, associate professor of history at Capital Community College in Hartford. Among the interesting facts he mentioned was, that as Europe’s great empires
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A daredevil had better be lucky or he won’t last long. Cobble resident Gordon MacKenzie has been a very lucky man. The first daring thing he did wasn’t wholly his choice, but at the tender age of 19 he found himself as an Army Air Force tail gunner flying in a B-32 in the Pacific.
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G.A. Mudge took on quite a project that has taken some years to complete: cataloguing and photographing the dozens of statues, dating from 1859 to the 1990s, scattered about Central Park. He came to Noble on November 11 to share some of the fruits of his labor in an illustrated talk. Among the adornments of
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Connecticut Master Wildlife Conservationist Paul Colburn, who presented a fascinating program on black bears to a capacity crowd last April, returned to Noble on October 28 to introduce an equally large group to Connecticut’s only wild cat, the bobcat. Numbering between 1,500 to 2,000 in the state, the beautiful, tawny bobcat (Lynx rufus) with the
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Today, someone’s identity is stolen every 2.8 seconds and $40 billion is lost to scammers each year. But there are actions you can take to protect you and your family. Two crime fighting experts were at Noble on September 14 for a program entitled “The Con Artist’s Playbook” outlining the tactics these criminals use and
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Probate Judge Diane Blick spoke to an audience at Noble Horizons for one reason only: to dispel worries about the probate process. In her third term as probate judge for Litchfield County, Judge Blick, known affectionately as the “judge on wheels” due to her habit of traveling to the homes of residents who need her
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