May 2009

Departments
Editor's Letter: Coming to Terms Imagine Chris Dodd’s career if there were such a thing as sensible term limits. by Charles Monagan
The Connecticut Table
	Winvian, Morris Remember Red Rover, king of the hill, hide-and-seek and "let's pretend"? The magic of childhood drifts away, eludes us when we seek to recapture it. But not at Winvian, where a tree house 35 feet above the forest floor invites us to climb up and spend the night. A cottage called Beaver Lodge on a reed-fringed pond looks as if Toad and his Wind in the Willows pals will arrive any minute. As for an edifice called Secret Society, it's a total mystery. By: Elise Maclay
Heirloom at The Study at Yale, New Haven We drive by New Haven's Study at Yale Hotel three times before I realize that it is not, as I thought, near the old Colony Inn. It is the old Colony Inn. Wow! If that tacky, tired, frequently face-lifted retread could be turned into this sleek, chic, urbane edifice, anything is possible. We might even find a parking place. By: Elise Maclay
Being There
	Antiques Roadshow Will the gods of antiquity smile on me and my stuffed-cow pull toy? by Pat Grandjean