Martha meets up with Greenwich foodies
Scene… TV personality and entertaining guru Martha Stewart was seen with former Greenwich selectman Drew Marzullo at the ninth annual Greenwich Wine + Food Festival, which took place last weekend at Roger Sherman Baldwin Park. The annual multiday event that benefits charitable organizations, including the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and Greenwich Parks & Recreation Fund, featured performances by Michael Franti and Spearhead and Little Big Town, as well as renowned chefs, restaurants and beverage companies serving up a variety of great food and drink.
Out there… The Americares Airlift Benefit, which celebrates the relief agency’s 40th anniversary, takes place Saturday at the JP Morgan Chase Hangar E1 at Westchester County Airport. Actor, director and producer Tony Goldwyn and CNN anchor and national correspondent Erica Hill will host the event honoring Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s chief medical correspondent. The alwaysextraordinary evening will feature cocktails, dinner and dancing, and culminate with the signature Airlift Bon Voyage as a group of guests fly to the Dominican Republic to see Americares health programs firsthand. For more info and tickets, go to www.americares.org or call 2036589579.
Out there… The Connecticut Playmakers will host “Let’s Swing with the Stars and The Fairfield Counts,” the area’s premier Swing Big Band, Friday and Saturday at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Stamford. The event, directed by Michele Grace, will feature the 17piece band and 15 singers showcasing songs of the 1940s and an evening of dancing. Patrons can bring their own food and beverages to the cabaretstyle seated event. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. For tickets ($25), call 2039778627 or go to www.ctplaymakers.org.
Scene… Greenwich resident and America’s favorite judge and TV personality Judge Judy Sheindlin and her husband, Judge Jerry Sheindlin, were seen dining at Pasta Vera on Greenwich Avenue last week.
Out there… The second annual DART Walk to the Finish takes place Saturday at Greenwich Point Park. The 2.5mile walk raises funds to fight NiemannPick disease type C, which is often referred to as children’s Alzheimer’s. Andrew Marella, the youngest son of DART’s founders Andrea and Phil Marella of Greenwich, is the only person in Connecticut with the rare disease. Now 20 years old, he has lived the longest with NPC. His sister Dana passed away from the disease in 2013, shortly before her 20th birthday. About 100 children in the United States have been diagnosed with the genetic disorder. DART’s work funds crucial research into new treatments for NPC, which has direct impacts into treatments for Alzheimer’s, HIV, heart disease and more. For more info on the event, go to www.danasangels.org.
Out there… “Dream Locations and Special Places” will be presented by James Doyle, principal of Doyle Herman Design Associates, and Community Centers Inc. at 11:30 a.m. Oct. 17 at the Belle Haven Club. Doyle, whose design business has completed awardwinning residential projects in the United States and Europe, will offer his insight into a range of private landscape projects in Greenwich and beyond. Proceeds benefit CCI’s Education and Support Programs. For more info and tickets (RSVP by Oct. 10), go to www.ccigreenwich.org.
Out there… The Greenwich Historical Society’s new exhibit “An American Story: Finding Home in Fairfield County” will open Wednesday and be on view through Jan. 6. The exhibit, cosponsored by the Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants and the Fairfield Museum and History Center, gives touching accounts of the journeys of 10 immigrants from Cambodia, Congo, Colombia, Cuba, Hungary, India, Rwanda, Syria and Venezuela who rebuilt there lives here. Their stories are featured on banners suspended from the society’s museum gallery ceiling. A wall of historic and contemporary photos illustrates other individuals, including 12 immigrants’ journeys to Greenwich from Chile, Italy, India, Mexico, Moldavia and the Soviet Union, who sought opportunity and added to the fabric of Fairfield County’s communities. For more info on the exhibit, call Cai Pandolfino at 2038696899 or go to www.greenwichhistory.org. And that’s all for now. Later…
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