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A view of the Rialto Bridge in February 2011 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
If you are planning to get married, there is probably no other place on earth where you should do it than Italy. Long known as a romantic destination, the country has captured the hearts and souls of many people for many centuries because of its amazing beauty, great cuisine, high fashion and fantastic art. Images of gondola rides, walking “mano-a-mano” with a nice gelato and your loved one help perpetuate the image of a romantic destination. There are many people that get married in Italy that travel from outside the country to do so.
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By Robert Nickel
Cultures tend to impart mystical qualities to aspects of the natural world that they inhabit; they give animals and flora credit for god-like power and tend to worship them as such. As polytheistic societies that shared the jungle with the jaguar cat, it isn’t too outlandish then, that the tribes of the region (the Aztec, Olmec and Maya) considered the cat a deity. Many fantastic and lovely works of art created in honor of the Jaguar have been unearthed over the years, and they make clear the importance that the jaguar held for the local people
The jaguar is the largest of the Big Cats in the western hemisphere, and is an aggressive and efficient predator. One of the few felines who will tolerate water, the animal lived in the same jungles as the resident humans, and as they formed societies, they learned to revere and respect the beast who could easily hunt the largest animals around. The Olmecs, which were the first major civilization in Mexico, had a very distinctive sculpture style and included this big kitty in many of their pieces. [CLICK TO CONTINUE…]
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By Casey Horton
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Vacation time! You have all the brochures in front of you to all the countries you want to visit Yet instead of thinking of the relaxing time you will have, all that you can do is stress out about the last international trip you went on. Expensive hotel and airfare. Getting lost in a foreign country. Missing out on seeing those important sights and festivals that were the reasons you had planned the trip to begin with. You don’t have to cope with all those issues and problems when you rely on international tour companies to plan the best vacation ever. [CLICK TO CONTINUE…]
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The Thomas Lyon House built around 1690-95 is regarded as Greenwich, Connecticut’s oldest unaltered structure and is on the National Register of Historic Places. A colonial saltbox at 1 Bram Road, it was built by the family and decedents of Thomas Lyon, who was one of the earliest settlers in Fairfield County. The Thomas Lyon House is considered a rare example of colonial-style architecture that hasn’t had the additions and alterations to the core structure that usually occurs over time.
The original Thomas Lyon was born in England in 1621, and first arrived in the new world at the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He then went to seek his fortune in the “Far West” of Connecticut in Fairfield County where at 26, he married his first wife, Martha Winthrop in 1647. Martha was the granddaughter of John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony whose family had received the land that today is Old Greenwich.
Martha and Thomas Lyon had one child before she died in her twenties. Thomas Lyon remarried having a son also named Thomas Lyon, who “built the house near Byram Bridge, which is still standing, having been occupied until the present time by his descendants.” This Thomas Lyon (1673-1739) with his wife Abigail and their children, were the original occupants of the house and it remained in the Lyon family into the 20th Century.
It also may have been the home of Peter Henry Lee who was an escaped slave from Virginia who had found freedom in Connecticut and worked at the Thomas Lyon house for Seth Lyon. On a Sunday in late November 1836, a trap was set to get Lee to come over Byram Bridge from Connecticut by two slave catchers from New York and the Sheriff from the county in Virginia where he had escaped slavery.
An unidentified man who knew Lee was paid $1.50 dollars to lure him across the bridge, and as soon as he reached the New York side he was jumped by four men and hauled off to Virginia, never to see freedom again.
Originally, the Thomas Lyon House was located on the north side of the Post Road, but had to be moved in 1927 to its current location when the road was widened.
The last member of seven generations of the Lyon family to occupy the house, Julia Lyon Saunders, gave it to the Lions Club and Rotary Club with the intention of using it as a welcome and information center for the Town of Greenwich – “The Gateway to New England.”
The Thomas Lyon House is presently undergoing restoration under the auspices of Greenwich Preservation Trust whose website contains more information about the home and its occupants: http://www.greenwichpreservationtrust.org
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