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Connecticut pleasures: Exploring Great Island, Old Lyme and Essex
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 decide whether to venture out into the sound. …