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Five Things to Know About New Canaan: August 2

The art exhibit "Emplorium" will grace the walls at Rockwell Art Gallery, plus more.

  1. There is a Board of Selectmen meeting today at 9 a.m. in the Town Hall Board Room. Agenda items include tree work, senior housing site and Mill Pond dredging.
  2. The Friends of Sherwood Island State Park host a lecture series on Thursday evenings at 6 p.m. in the Nature Center. This Thursday, the subject is Global Climatic Change: Consequences & Cures with guest speaker, chemical engineer Lewis Clark. The lecture, refreshments and snacks are free, so is the entrance fee to the park after 5:30 p.m.
  3. is holding an art exhibit - “Emplorium” - from August 5 through September 9. A free, public reception is scheduled for Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. to introduce the artists.
  4. The Tenth Annual Festival of Lighthouses Contest has begun at the Maritime Aquarium. "This special exhibit will place 24 lighthouses throughout the aquarium during the holiday season and Aquarium visitors will follow these hand-crafted beacons through the galleries and then may cast a vote for their favorite." The builder of the lighthouse with the most votes will receive $1,500. Second place will receive $750, third place $375, fourth place $300, fifth place $225 and $150 for sixth place. Entry forms are being accepted until October 21.
  5. Tonight's movie is "A Mighty Heart" at 7 p.m. in the Adrian Lamb Room. Angelina Jolie plays Mariane Pearl whose "husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped by terrorists, Mariane heads a desperate search for clues in a frantic race against time to locate her missing husband." It is part of the New Canaan Library Adult Summer Reading Program and lands in the category of memoir, biography and autobiography. Please register.
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