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In the quiet countryside of Connecticut, a scenic farm featuring beautiful red and white buildings, a pond, a wooden landscape, stone walls, even a stone picnic table and benches from the 1800s.

The open meadows, hardwood forests, and wetlands provide wildlife habitats for a plethora of animals.

Birds, amphibians, and reptiles call this quiet place home.

From nesting songbirds and wild turkeys, to snakes and lizards, frogs and toads, to butterflies and bats,

that carefully designed and maintained gardens and woodland wildflowers streaked the landscape

with blazes of color, both from their blooms and from the stunning pollinators

they attract.

But it's not the features of the farm per se that make

Weir Farm a national historical park. It is a self-proclaimed National Park for

art. Weir Farm tells the stories of three separate but interrelated artists

who made it their home at different times.

Continuously, over the course of more than 100 years,

without ever falling into ownership outside of those families.

As an added bonus, this small National Park property, the only one in Connecticut, makes the

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