0684-Radi0: Rotary Club’s 40th Annual Lobsterfest Set for Sept. 25-26 (Sept. 11, 2025)
Release Date: 09/10/2025
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This week, we talk to Duncan Chisolm. A New Canaan resident, Chisolm helps organize the ’s program, which sees a wide swath of community volunteers collect and deliver food, clothing, blankets and personal care items directly to New York City’s homeless poor.
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This week, we talk to Hannah and Alex Guerrero, children of the longtime New Canaan resident and prolific artist Ben Guerrero. A fixture in town for decades, Ben Guerrero created a wide range of art work in his life, much of it curated for a new exhibition, titled “,” opening Jan. 29 at the New Canaan Museum & Historical Society.
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This week, we talk to Kathleen Corbet, chair of the recently appointed .
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This week, we talk to the Rev. Dr. Stephen Chapin Garner and Frank Lyon about the Congregational Church of New Canaan’s recent trip to Taybeh, the last remaining all-Christian town in the West Bank. Garner and Lyon, who works for AmeriCares, will make a presentation at 9 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 14 at the Congregational Church about the visit and what they learned. All are welcome.
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In this special Monday edition, we talk to New Canaan resident Dede Bartlett, who is leading a guided of Lakeview Cemetery at 2 p.m. Thursday. The tour is free for members of the New Canaan Museum & Historical Society, and $10 for nonmembers (info and ).
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This week, we talk to New Canaan resident Shiva Sarram, founder and executive director of . The nonprofit organization funds programs, projects and products that help children, youth and families affected by conflict and war in the Middle East. Blossom Hill’s popular “” shopping event with local vendors is to be held Nov. 21 at the Carriage Barn Arts Center. Twenty percent of what is raised there goes to Blossom Hill’s programming, including in Connecticut.
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This week, we talk to Natalie Morath, the Lead Archivist & Curator at GM Design Archive & Special Collections, about a at the New Canaan Museum & Historical Society that she curated. “” opens Friday in the Susan Schmeichel Gallery at NCM&HS and runs through Dec. 31. The exhibition features photographs, furniture, objects, sculpture and video from the Design Center at General Motors in Detroit, a sprawling campus that Saarinen designed.
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This week, we talk to Kathleen Corbet, a member of the New Canaan Rotary Club, about the service organization’s 40th annual . A popular fundraiser for Rotary’s charitable grant-giving program, Lobsterfest this year will be offered as a sit-down dinner in Waveny House, or for take away. It will run Thursday and Friday, Sept. 25 and 26 ().
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This week, we talk to Liz Salguero, co-executive-director of , a nonprofit organization that offers programs and services to support families during their child’s cancer journey. The organization’s 11th annual walk-run fundraiser, called “,” is scheduled for Sunday, September 28th, at Sherwood Island State Park in Westport.
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This week, we talk to Ted Grogan—a 1988 New Canaan High School graduate who works as executive director of , a nonprofit organization that uses equine therapy to help people who have suffered from all forms of trauma—and New Canaan Police Officer Jeff Deak, the school resource officer at NCHS.
info_outlineThis week, we talk to Kathleen Corbet, a member of the New Canaan Rotary Club, about the service organization’s 40th annual Lobsterfest. A popular fundraiser for Rotary’s charitable grant-giving program, Lobsterfest this year will be offered as a sit-down dinner in Waveny House, or for take away. It will run Thursday and Friday, Sept. 25 and 26 (tickets and info here).