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1. Ridgefield, Connecticut – Ridgefield is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. Situated in the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains, the 300-year-old community had a population of 24,638 at the 2010 census, the town center, which was formerly a borough, is defined by the U. S. Census Bureau as a census-designated place. Ridgefield was first settled by English colonists from Norwalk and Milford in 1708, the town was incorporated under a royal charter from the Connecticut General Assembly issued in 1709. The most notable 18th-century event was the Battle of Ridgefield on April 27,1777 and they faced a larger British force that had landed at Westport and was returning from a raid on the colonial supply depot in Danbury. Today, the dead from both sides are buried together in a cemetery on Main Street on the right of the entrance to Casagmo condominiums. foes in arms. The Keeler Tavern, an inn and museum, features a British cannonball still lodged in the side of the building. There are many landmarks from the Revolutionary War in the town. In the summer of 1781, the French army under the Comte de Rochambeau marched through Connecticut, encamping in the Ridgebury section of town, for much of its three centuries, Ridgefield was a farming community. Among the important families in the 19th century were the Rockwells and Lounsburys and they produced two Connecticut governors, George Lounsbury and Phineas Lounsbury. The Ridgefield Veterans Memorial Community Center on Main Street, also called the Lounsbury House, was built by Gov. Phineas Chapman Lounsbury around 1896 as his primary residence, the Lounsbury Farm near the Florida section of Ridgefield is one of the only remaining operational farms in Ridgefield. These and dozens of other estates became unaffordable and unwieldy during and after the Great Depression, in their place came subdivisions of one- and 2-acre lots that turned the town into a suburban, bedroom community in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. However, strong planning and zoning has maintained much of the 19th- and early 20th-century charm of the town, in 1946, Ridgefield was one of the locations considered for the United Nations secretariat building, but was not chosen due to its relative inaccessibility. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 35.0 square miles, of which 34.4 square miles is land and 0.5 square miles. The town is bordered by the towns of North Salem and Lewisboro in Westchester County, New York to the west, Danbury to the north, Wilton to the south, the town has a Metro-North Railroad station called Branchville in the Branchville corner of town. The Census designated place corresponding to the center covers a total area of 6.4 square miles. Ridgefield consists of hilly, rocky terrain, ranging from 1,060 feet above sea level to 342 feet at Branchville and its average village elevation is 725 feet above sea level. The landscape is strewn with countless rocks deposited by glaciers, and among the bodies of water is Round Pond. A particularly interesting feature is Camerons Line, named for Eugene N. Cameron and this fault line was formed some 250 million years ago by the collision of Proto North America and Proto Africa, and there are still occasional light earthquakes felt along its length
2. Larry Adler – Lawrence Larry Cecil Adler was an American musician, one of the worlds most skilled harmonica players. Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Darius Milhaud and Arthur Benjamin composed for him, during his later career he collaborated with Sting, Elton John, Kate Bush and Cerys Matthews. Adler was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Sadie Hack and he graduated from Baltimore City College high school. He taught himself harmonica, which he called a mouth-organ, in 1927, he won a contest sponsored by the Baltimore Sun, playing a Beethoven minuet, and a year later he ran away from home to New York. From there, he was hired by Florenz Ziegfeld and then by Lew Leslie again as an urchin and he broke the typecasting and appeared in a dinner jacket in the 1934 Paramount film Many Happy Returns, and was hired by theatrical producer C. B. He became a star in the United Kingdom and the Empire and he recorded all except the Scott Serenade, some more than once. Other works he played in harmonica arrangements were by Bartók, Beethoven, Debussy, Falla, Gershwin, Mozart, Poulenc, Ravel, Stravinsky and Walton. During the 1940s, Adler and the dancer, Paul Draper, formed an act and toured nationally and internationally, one popular number was Gershwins I Got Rhythm. After the blacklisting and a libel suit decided in 1950, he moved to the United Kingdom in 1951 and settled in London. Another source indicates he stayed in London from 1949, the 1953 film Genevieve brought him an Oscar nomination for his work on the soundtrack, and great wealth. His name was removed from the credits in the United States due to blacklisting. His other film scores included A Cry from the Streets, The Hellions, The Hook, King & Country and he also scored a hit with the theme song of the French Jacques Becker movie Touchez pas au grisbi with Jean Gabin, written by Jean Wiener. In 1959, a reviewer from the Village Voice called Adler a great artist after watching his twice-nightly performances at the Village Gate. In 1994, for his 80th birthday, Adler and George Martin produced an album of George Gershwin songs, The Glory of Gershwin, the Glory of Gershwin reached number 2 in the UK albums chart in 1994. Adler was a musician and showman, concerts to support The Glory of Gershwin showed he was a competent pianist. He opened each performance with Gershwins Summertime, playing piano and harmonica simultaneously, Adler appeared in five movies, including Sidewalks of London, in which he played a harmonica virtuoso named Constantine. His other film appearances were in Three Daring Daughters playing himself, Music for Millions playing Larry, The Singing Marine playing Larry and he was a prolific letter writer, his correspondence with Private Eye becoming popular in the United Kingdom. Adler wrote an autobiography — entitled It Aint Necessarily So — in 1985 and he appeared on the Jack Benny radio program several times, entertaining disabled soldiers in the USA during World War II
3. Larry Aldrich – Larry Aldrich was an American fashion designer, art collector, and founder of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Aldrich began working in the trade in 1924. He began producing garments under his own label in the 1940s and he was president of the New York Couture Group. He began collecting art in 1937, though initially it was just a circumstantial act and he was married in 1940 and he and his wife bought a weekend home in Ridgefield, Connecticut. His wife had an interest in painting and, concerned about her boredom during the week while he was in New York, he began bringing home literature about art, when World War II ended, air travel to Paris resumed. Aldrich had already concluded he would like to acquire art and in 1947, he. His collection grew to be substantial, on his way out to buy cigarettes one day, he spied a building for sale. Seeing that it had high ceilings, he thought it would work well as a place to house his art collection. After investing a substantial sum to renovate, he turned it into a museum, initially called the Old Hundred and he soon changed it, however, because the name did not indicate the contemporary character of the contents. He founded the Larry Aldrich Museum in 1964, the Museum awards an annual Larry Aldrich Award
4. Peggy Bacon – Margaret Frances Peggy Bacon was an American printmaker, illustrator, painter and writer. Bacon was known for her humorous and ironic etchings and drawings, Bacon was born on May 2,1895 in Ridgefield, Connecticut to Charles Roswell Bacon and Elizabeth Chase Bacon. She was the first of three children but raised a child after her two younger brothers died in infancy. Bacons parents were artists and met while attending the Art Students League in New York. Her father, a boy for Tiffanys during his childhood. Both of her parents were well read, they loved reading Henry James. Bacons parents moved frequently and would have tutors for Bacon wherever they went, the family lived in Connecticut but spent winters in New York and in the winter of 1902 they lived in Nassau, Bahamas. They also spent time in Pas de Calais and London, between the ages of 9 and 11 Bacon lived with her parents in France, first in Paris and then in a house in Picardy at Montreaux-sur-Mer. Bacon described her childhood as absolutely delightful. Her youth was very sheltered, she was accompanied by a governess. The only time she really had freedom from this life was when her family was living in Nassau because her parents. At the age of fourteen, Bacon began attending Kent Place School, in 1913, the same year she graduated, Bacons father killed himself in his studio in New York. He had overcome alcoholism but was susceptible to bouts of depression, after this devastating event Bacon and her mother moved to New York City and lived on the West Side in the home of family friends. Bacon had always interested in art and from a very young age her early artistic interests were encouraged and supported by her parents. Although Bacon started drawing when she was a year and a half old, at the end of 1913, Bacon first studied art at the School of Applied Design for Women but disliked it calling it, the prissiest, silliest place that ever was. She transferred after a few weeks to the School of Fine and Applied Arts on the West Wide where she took classes in illustration, during the summer of 1914 Bacon attended Jonas Lies landscape class in Port Jefferson, Long Island. From 1915-1920 Bacon studied painting with Kenneth Hayes Miller, John Sloan, George Bellows, while at the League, Bacon became friends with several other artists. Looking back at her time at the League Bacon said, The years at the Art Students League were an important chunk of life to me
5. Silvio Bedini – Silvio Bedini was an American historian, specialising in early scientific instruments. He was Historian Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution, where he served on the staff for twenty-five years. Bedini was born in Ridgefield, Connecticut in 1917, by 1965, Bedini became Assistant Director of the Museum of History and Technology, and in 1972 was appointed Deputy Director of the National Museum of History and Technology. Afterwards, Bedini served as Historian Emeritus at the Smithsonian, in 2000, in Munich, Germany he was awarded the Leonardo da Vinci Medal, the highest recognition from the Society of the History of Technology. Bedini was completing his twenty-third book, Johann Philipp Trefler, Clockmaker of Augsburg, Bulletin of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, reprinted as pamphlet. Agent for the Archduke, Another chapter in the story of Johann Phillip Treffler, Clockmaker of Augsburg, xIVth and XVth century public clocks of the papal marches. Galileo Galilei and time measurement, A re-examination of pertinent documents, the scent of time, A study of the use of fire and incense for time measurement in Oriental countries. C. Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers, the makers of Galileos scientific instruments. The Astrarium of Giovanni de Dondi from Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Volume 56, sundials and dialling, A bibliography of Italian and other references. Benjamin Banneker and the survey of the District of Columbia,1791, the Life of Benjamin Banneker, The Definitive Biography of the First Black Man of Science. Moon Mans Greatest Adventure (with Wernher von, Whipple, Fred L. and Thomas, thinkers and tinkers, Early American men of science. Introduction—the Vaticans astronomical paintings and the Institute of the Sciences of Bologna, thinkers and Tinkers, Early American Men of Science. Declaration of Independence Desk, Relic of Revolution, thinkers and Tinkers, Early Men of Science. At the Sign of the Compass and Quadrant, The Life, the scientific instruments of the Lewis and Clark expedition, Great Plains Quarterly. Thomas Jefferson and His Copying Machines, clockwork cosmos, Bernardo Facini and the Farnese planisferologio. Thomas Jefferson and American vertebrate paleontology, Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers. The pulse of time, Galileo Galilei, the determination of longitude, Science and Instruments in Seventeenth-Century Italy. The Trail of Time, Time Measurement with Incense in East Asia, ISBN 0-521-37482-0 The Mace and the Gavel, Symbols of Government in America
6. Wayne Boring – Wayne Boring was an American comic book artist best known for his work on Superman from the late 1940s to 1950s. He occasionally used the pseudonym Jack Harmon, Boring attended the Minnesota School of Art and the Chicago Art Institute. In 1937, he began ghosting on such features as Slam Bradley. In 1942, the by-then-named National Comics hired Boring as a staff artist, the two would work together for nearly 20 years. During this mid-1940s period, he signed his work for rival Novelty Press Blue Bolt Comics as Jack Harmon. Borings Superman Covers Atom Bomb Test, cover for Action Comics #101 was an early example of nuclear weapons in popular culture. A more detailed origin story for Superman by Boring and writer Bill Finger was presented in Superman #53 to mark the tenth anniversary. Boring co-created the Fortress of Solitude in Action Comics #241 with writer Jerry Coleman, Boring was the primary Superman comic-book penciller through the 1950s. Swan succeeded him the following decade, though Boring returned for sporadic guest appearances in the early 1960s and then again in late 1966 and early 1967. Boring was let go from DC in 1967, along with artists from the 1930s and 1940s. From 1968 to 1972, Boring ghosted backgrounds for Hal Fosters Prince Valiant Sunday comic strip, and took over the art on writer Sam Leffs 1961–71 United Feature Syndicate strip Davy Jones. Afterward, Boring did a small amount of work on Marvel Comics Captain Marvel, then left the field to semi-retire as a security guard. He briefly returned to DC to pencil some stories in All-Star Squadron Annual #3, Superman #402, in 1985, DC Comics named Boring as one of the honorees in the companys 50th anniversary publication Fifty Who Made DC Great. His final work was All-Star Squadron #64 a recreation of Superman #19 and he was posthumously inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 2007. Archived from the original on August 23,2011, Wayne Boring at the Comic Book DB Wayne Boring at Mikes Amazing World of Comics Wayne Boring at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators