Sixteen Connecticut State Parks offered special hikes Wednesday as part of a program called First Day Hikes. The state wants people to start the year by hitting the trails out in its parks.

Today, this serene pastoral setting in southeastern Connecticut, an hour’s drive from Manhattan, is home to the only park unit devoted to American painting—the 60-acre Weir Farm National Historic Site ...

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