The Connecticut Sea Music Festival is one of the region’s biggest annual celebrations of maritime music. “People will hear sea shanties — which are sailors’ work songs," said Deirdre Murtha, one of ...

Far south past Griswold Point on the Connecticut River, Long Island is a smudge on the horizon, or "hull down" as mariners might say. The big river seems to have come to a dead stop, as if unable to ...

ESSEX, Conn. (WTNH) — “We close three days a year. That would be Easter Sunday, Thanksgiving and Christmas,” says co-owner Dee Ferris. It’s a lifestyle at Toys Ahoy, the oldest continuously operating ...

ESSEX, Conn. (WTNH) — A new exhibit opens today at the Connecticut River Museum in Essex. It is called “Rising Waters,” and it takes a look at the history of flooding along the river, with an emphasis ...

PART OF THE LOWER CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY. ESSEX, CONNECTICUT IS QUAINT WITH A POPULATION THAT HOVERS AROUND 7000. IT IS JAM PACKED WITH HISTORY AND WITH VIEWS LIKE THIS, A PERFECT PLACE TO SOAK IN ...

Fifth graders at Essex Elementary took part in dissection day during their program with the CT Audubon Society. They spent part of the class picking apart and looking closely at something called owl ...