I don't remember a time I didn't know who Nathan Hale was. For the Town of Coventry, Connecticut, Nathan Hale is the rock star; the man who made the town of approximately 13,000 people in the northeastern part of the state that they affectionately call "The Quiet Corner," a historical American landmark. He is part of the DNA in Coventry's rocky soil, and in those of us that tie our own personal family legacies to the town. My maternal grandfather, Frederick T. Edgerton's ancestors, moved from Massachusetts Bay to Coventry in the 1740s, not long after the town's incorporation in 1712. My mother, Beatrice, and my aunt, Virginia, known to me since childhood as "Auntie," taught my brother an
StartFragment I may be prejudiced, since I lived there most of my life, but there is nothing like California wines. My serious introduction to wines came in 1992, when my then boyfriend - future husband and I took a trip to Santa Ynez and Solvang, which is approximately 4 hours from Los Angeles. We visited several wineries, most notably the Fess Parker winery, (yes, it was owned by the late Fess Parker who played Davy Crockett in the 1960s TV show) and a little hole in wall place called the Santa Ynez winery. We fell in love with this place. And the wine was something spectacular. Their White Zinfanel and their Rieslings were great. But their Chardonnay was like nothing we had ever taste
