Barbara Teall Birge Winn

EAST WINDSOR — Barbara Teall Birge Winn, 82, died June 12, 2010, following a courageous battle against breast cancer.

Mrs. Winn was born Oct. 19, 1927, the daughter of William and Mercy (Stock) Birge. She was a longtime resident of East Windsor and Litchfield.

With her husband, Mrs. Winn traveled extensively, visiting every U.S. state and many foreign countries. Her passion was volunteer work, and she spent her life, particularly after her children were grown, helping in different ways, including work with the Society for the Prevention of Blindness and creating books on tape for the local library.

She is survived by her sons, Timothy and his wife, Cathy, of East Windsor, Kevin and his wife, Marcia, of Newington, and Bruce and his partner, Michael Roseberry, of Tiverton Four Corners, R.I. In addition, she leaves four grandchildren, Matthew, Jamie, Andrew and Brenda Winn; two sisters, Orcelia Winn and Janette Winn both of Litchfield; brother-in-law and sister-in-law Laurence and Nancy Winn of Pleasant Valley, and many nieces and nephews. Barbara was predeceased by her husband, Fred T. Winn, son Donald Winn and sister Lillian Merrill.

A memorial service will be held on Saturday, June 26, at 11 a.m. in the Milton Congregational Church, 548 Milton Road, Milton (Litchfield).

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Connecticut Volunteer Services for the Blind and Handicapped, Inc. (CVSBH); in care of Oliver Wolcott Library, South Street, Litchfield, CT 06759 or the American Cancer Society, New England Division, PO Box 5025, Wallingford, CT 06492 (cancer.org).

Latest News

South Kent School’s unofficial March reunion

Elmarko Jackson was named a 2023 McDonald’s All American in his senior year at South Kent School. He helped lead the Cardinals to a New England Prep School Athletic Conference (NEPSAC) AAA title victory and was recruited to play at the University of Kansas. This March he will play point guard for the Jayhawks when they enter the tournament as a No. 4 seed against (13) Samford University.

Riley Klein

SOUTH KENT — March Madness will feature seven former South Kent Cardinals who now play on Division 1 NCAA teams.

The top-tier high school basketball program will be well represented with graduates from each of the past three years heading to “The Big Dance.”

Keep ReadingShow less
Hotchkiss grads dancing with Yale

Nick Townsend helped Yale win the Ivy League.

Screenshot from ESPN+ Broadcast

LAKEVILLE — Yale University advanced to the NCAA men’s basketball tournament after a buzzer-beater win over Brown University in the Ivy League championship game Sunday, March 17.

On Yale’s roster this year are two graduates of The Hotchkiss School: Nick Townsend, class of ‘22, and Jack Molloy, class of ‘21. Townsend wears No. 42 and Molloy wears No. 33.

Keep ReadingShow less
Handbells of St. Andrew’s to ring out Easter morning

Anne Everett and Bonnie Rosborough wait their turn to sound notes as bell ringers practicing to take part in the Easter morning service at St. Andrew’s Church.

Kathryn Boughton

KENT—There will be a joyful noise in St. Andrew’s Church Easter morning when a set of handbells donated to the church some 40 years ago are used for the first time by a choir currently rehearsing with music director Susan Guse.

Guse said that the church got the valuable three-octave set when Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center closed in the late 1980s and the bells were donated to the church. “The center used the bells for music therapy for younger patients. Our priest then was chaplain there and when the center closed, he brought the bells here,” she explained.

Keep ReadingShow less
Picasso’s American debut was a financial flop
Picasso’s American debut was a financial flop
Penguin Random House

‘Picasso’s War” by Foreign Affairs senior editor Hugh Eakin, who has written about the art world for publications like The New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and The New York Times, is not about Pablo Picasso’s time in Nazi-occupied Paris and being harassed by the Gestapo, nor about his 1937 oil painting “Guernica,” in response to the aerial bombing of civilians in the Basque town during the Spanish Civil War.

Instead, the Penguin Random House book’s subtitle makes a clearer statement of intent: “How Modern Art Came To America.” This war was not between military forces but a cultural war combating America’s distaste for the emerging modernism that had flourished in Europe in the early decades of the 20th century.

Keep ReadingShow less