We measure our disorientation in frayed emotions, lost sleep and nostalgia for the places we can’t go. And Wednesday, it was announced the Norwalk Oyster Festival was canceled due to COVID-19 concerns - and that’s in September. In addition to friends and loved ones, we’re losing most of the Goodspeed theater season, the full Ivoryton Playhouse season, every symphony and band concert scheduled from March 15 through at least Memorial Day, the live events of June’s International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven, shows at Connecticut casinos, and - just noted from Jimmy Tickey of Celebrate Shelton - Food Trucks on the River in June and September.Īs of the other day, 17 of the 34 annual agricultural fairs that were scheduled throughout the state have been canceled, according to. The Bronx Bombers were also something I shared with my supportive ex-boss, Jack Kramer, who died recently in this disenchanting spring.īaseball can help ease the continuing toll of losses since mid-March. Not just in a see-two-innings, mow-the-lawn and see-two-more-innings way but in a watch-every-pitch-and-twitch way. I was talking about the Yanks to a Red Sox fan I know the other day and we agreed on one thing: We need baseball back ASAP. There’s still something pithy and prescient for us about New York lyrics and a sense of dread in a time when our cultural and live arts are in temporary ruin. Billy Joel sang his dystopian sci-fi song “Miami 2017” to great effect after 9/11 and recently did it for this crisis.
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