Weir National Park and the Connecticut Impressionists, undated

On May 26, 1992, Weir Farm in Ridgefield/Wilton became Connecticut's first National Park, the Alden Weir National Park, honoring one of Connecticut's most famous Impressionist painters. Articles from 1978 to 1997 tracing the evolution of the Weir Farm from local committees seeking its preservation to the final acceptance as a National Park. Also, portions of two books: J. Alden Weir: A Place of His Own (UCONN publication of 1991 based on a an exhibition of Weir's works.) The Life & Letters of J. Alden Weir by Dorothy Weir Young (Yale, 1960) Articles (mainly from New York Times) and some pamphlets from the 1980s and 1990s concerning the Connecticut arts of the Impressionist Schools, and the Old Lyme Painters Colony.