Soak up the sun at Lobsterfest at Tod’s Point
Out there… The Greenwich Newcomers Club Lobsterfest! takes place this Sunday, Sept. 13, from 3 to 8 p.m. at the Clambake area at Tod’s Point Park in Old Greenwich. All are invited for this taste of summer. For tickets ($50 for adults, $20 for kids) go to greenwich newcomers club.wildapricot.org.
On the market… The 22acre estate of fashion icon Tommy Hilfiger in backcountry Greenwich is on the market for a cool $47.5 million. Hilfiger and his wife, Dee, are leaving the home they bought in 2010 and are heading to Palm Beach, Fla. The mansion is the former estate of the late financier and art collector Joseph Hirshhorn, whose museum, the Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden, sits beside the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Scene… Film producer Cody Gifford, the 30year-old son of TV personality and author Kathie Lee Gifford and the late football great Frank Gifford, married his longtime girlfriend Erika Brown at his family’s waterfront home in Riverside over Labor Day weekend. Gifford, founder of the Gifford Media Group, and Brown, a dancer and actress from Las Vegas, dated for seven years before tying the knot last weekend. His proud mom shared photos of the beautiful bride and groom on Instagram on Monday. Earlier this summer, Kathie
Lee Gifford’s daughter, actress Cassidy Gifford, tied the knot with her fiancé BenWierda in Michigan.
Movie night… A Drive-In movie event takes place again on Saturday, Sept. 19, at the Horseneck parking lot in Greenwich, featuring the film “Jumanji: The
Next Level” (2019) at 8 p.m. DJ April Larken will open up the festivities that evening at 7 p.m. For more info go to www.sebassevents.com.
Stepping out… The 27th annual Stamford Downtown Parade Spectacular scheduled for Nov. 22 has been canceled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The parade is scheduled to take next year on Nov. 21,2021.
In concert… The Ridgefield Playhouse in Ridgefield is offering two outdoor shows by famed musician Martin Sexton this Sunday, Sept. 13, at 4 and 8 p.m. on The Playhouse Ball
Field. Sexton, described by singer John Mayer as “the best live performer I’ve ever seen,” has performed with the likes of Jackson Browne, Peter Frampton and Art Garfunkel. His songs have appeared in numerous films and in television series, including “Scrubs,” “Parenthood” and “Masters of Sex.” For tickets and more info, go to ridgefieldplayhouse.org or call the box office at 203438-5795.
Out there... Bob Capazzo and the Merlin Band will perform on the Great Lawn at the Greenwich Historical Society on Strickland Road in Cos Cob from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17. For tickets and more info, go to www.greenwichhistory.org or call 203-869-6899.
And that’s all for now. Later…
“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.“
- Thich Nhat Hanh