What is The Cultural Easton?
A neighborhood publication for Easton, Connecticut, written by your neighbors.
We started The Cultural Easton in early 2025 because we believe a town is more than a place on a map. It’s the people who live here, the land we walk, the farms we drive past, the traditions that pass between generations, and the conversations we have with each other across the dinner table and at town meetings.
We publish stories from and about Easton:
- Profiles of neighbors — farmers, craftspeople, business owners, public servants, artists.
- Stories from our farms and small businesses — the Maple Rows and Sport Hills and Ganim’s that make Easton feel like Easton.
- Trail walks and nature dispatches from the preserves around town — Kupinse, Trout Brook Valley, Crow Hill, Poindexter, and the rest.
- Cultural and faith traditions that root our community across generations.
- Civic commentary on the questions our town is wrestling with — discourse, land use, schools, sustainability.
We are independent, ad-free, and free to read. We come into your inbox roughly twice a month — never daily, never spammy. We don’t track you. We don’t sell anything.
Who’s behind it?
The publication is written by a small group of neighbors. Jonathan Webster runs the site and writes most of the trail walks, farm visits, and civic essays. Gale Papageorge, a Fairfield University professor, contributes profiles, holiday and tradition pieces, and cultural essays. Ken Coulson, a musician and author, contributes occasionally. You can read more about each of us on our Who’s Who page.
We are independent. No corporate parent, no advertiser pressure, no algorithm telling us what to write. Just neighbors writing about home.
How do I sign up?
If this sounds like a publication you’d want in your inbox, the best way to support us is simply to subscribe. It’s free, it’s twice a month, and it’ll show up alongside whatever else you’re already reading.
If you’re already a subscriber, the single most useful thing you can do is forward an issue you liked to one neighbor. That’s how we grow!
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