Sports Stars, A Green Antique and The Glass House

Months before the NCHS Rams football team was on the verge of its fifth consecutive state championship, Coach Bo Hickey looked down at the turf and said, "If I'm a Division I school and I have a scholarship left, I give it to that kid."  

"That kid" was Kevin Macari, the NCHS Rams' star wide receiver

"He's a winner," Hickey said.

 The Stamford Advocate reports Macari is considered the most valuable player in the FCIAC and has his sights on playing Division I football.

Macari, along with Rory Shepard, named the most valuable player on the Rams soccer team, and Rams sophomore swimmer, Maddie Rusch, are all humble and hardworking superstars for their teams during this fall season. All three have been nominated for the BlueStreak-Overtime FCIAC Male and Female Players of the Year. 

Macari was an explosive two-way player for a New Canaan team that took a 9-1 record into the state playoffs. Shepard led his team to the CIAC Class L championship and Rusch, who never lost a race this season, helped her team win the FCIAC title for the first time in thirteen years.

The Hearst Connecticut Media Group's CTNews.com  blog reports Macari and Shepard are two of six male athletes and Rusch is one of six female athletes nominated for the award this year.

Read more about their accomplishments, the athletes they are nominated alongside, and, most importantly, cast your vote for our New Canaan athletes to win this award! One male and one female athlete will come out on top and the voting continues until Monday Dec., 6 at noon when the winners will be announced. 

Lorraine Jorden thinks old, historically significant homes in New Canaan should not be demolished but preserved and renovated into"green" treasures, reports 3blmedia.com. The Augusta Simon Homestead, circa 1860, received the highest ranking by the Green Business League. Located at 113 Locust Ave., the Historic Green Home was named for the famous artist who studied under primitive painter Grandma Moses. Jorden  has a passion for the environment and saving resources.  She advocates adapting green practices as a mind set in our everyday lives.

The Philip Johnson Glass House is being featured in the December issue of GQ Magazine. The feature is entitled: "Break Out of the Museum" and the Glass House is touted as "The World's Coolest Country Home" in the opening spread.

In the words of the writer, Andy Comer, the Glass House "adds up to something far more than a jaw-dropping country home. Johnson, it seems, built an observatory for beauty – both man-made and otherwise. Good thing he left us the keys."

GQ's Vice-President and Publisher is New Canaan resident, Peter King Hunsinger.