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'Five Days' author to discuss book at Darien Library

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:32:53 UT

Douglas Kennedy, author of "Five Days," will be the Darien Library's featured speaker at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 21. In a job where finding nothing is always the best result, she is well versed in the random unfairness of life, a revelation that has started to affect her personally. Laura begins to wonder if her impending empty nest will only deepen the disconnected state of her marriage.

Darien commutes changed

Megan Spicer — Mon, 20 May 2013 16:55:54 UT

The train came on schedule in Darien Monday morning, but that doesn't mean people weren't forced to change their morning commutes.

Where the mansions are

Maggie Gordon — Sat, 18 May 2013 00:39:19 UT

Find out where Conencticut's most expensive homes are and compare them to multi-million dollar homes found across the whole country.

Estate on market for $190M

Neil Vigdor — Sat, 18 May 2013 02:56:55 UT

A 50-acre compound on the Greenwich waterfront with a pair of private islands, a driveway longer than most highway interchanges and a 19th-century French Victorian mansion with as many bedrooms as there are days of Christmas hit the market Friday at an other-worldly $190 million. Copper Beach Farm, as the compound is known, boasts a carriage house with a clock tower, co-joined heptagonal pools, a greenhouse, wine cellar and Wimbledon-like grass tennis court. David Ogilvy & Associates, a Greenwich affiliate of Christie's International Real Estate, took out a two-page spread in Friday's newspaper trumpeting the compound as "the one and only 50-acre waterfront estate in Greenwich." The last time a property of its size with Long Island Sound frontage in Greenwich came on the market was 1952, according to Ogilvy, who said he already has several inquiries from prospective buyers. Records show the property is owned by timber tycoon John Rudey, who bought the estate in 1985 from Harriet Lauder Greenway, whose father was a partner in Carnegie Steel. Ogilvy was also the listing agent for an 80-acre estate in Conyers Farm with a main house, four guest houses, a 22-stall horse stable and servants' quarters that hit the market at $53 million.

Weekend fun close to home

Christina Hennessy — Fri, 17 May 2013 16:08:58 UT

Check out what fun things are going on in the area this weekend.

Can't live in Darien

Maggie Gordon — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:16:54 UT

The average New Englander expects to spend roughly $260,000 on their next home - that won't get you far in Darien.