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Vol. 02 · № 28
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Week of July 7, 2026
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A pocket dispatch from the city
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The dispatch · Tuesday
Happy Tuesday, neighbor.
July 7 – 13, 2026
The fireworks smoke has cleared, and this weekend Norwalk leans all the way into the history it was built on: the town marks the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. Saturday, the 2nd Continental Light Dragoons pitch camp at Mill Hill for the 1779 Battle & Burning of Norwalk — living history, tours, a Deborah Sampson performance, an America 250 candle-making workshop at the library, and an artists’ talk on Sunday. Around the history, summer keeps rolling: the River Street Sunset Bazaar is back in SoNo, there’s a free Town Green concert, a trail cleanup, a bike party, and a sunrise sound bath on the sand. And in The Pearl this week: Norwalk’s newest coffee shop, MOTW, just opened its doors down on West Ave.
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The Pearl · new in the neighborhood
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New on West Ave
MOTW Coffee & Pastries is open.
Specialty lattes — pistachio, biscoff, Spanish — plus matcha, traditional chai, and fresh Arabic pastries. Now pouring at 467 West Ave in the new Piper development, the third Connecticut shop and the first in Norwalk. Open daily from 7 AM (9 AM weekends), late till midnight Fridays & Saturdays.
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The lead · America turns 250
The Revolution comes back to Mill Hill.
The featured pick · Saturday, July 11 the 2nd Continental Light Dragoons camp at Mill Hill Historic Park for the Battle & Burning of Norwalk — living history, tours, and a Deborah Sampson performance, 10 AM to 3 PM, free
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Sat, July 11, 2026 · 10 AM–3 PM · Mill Hill Historic Park, Norwalk
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This year is the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, and Norwalk marks it on the ground where it happened. On Saturday, the 2nd Continental Light Dragoons pitch a flying camp at Mill Hill Historic Park for the anniversary of the 1779 Battle & Burning of Norwalk. From 10 to 1 there are equipment demonstrations, a children’s drill, and self-guided tours of the old burying ground — where eleven Revolutionary soldiers rest — alongside the Battle & Burning of Norwalk exhibit. Then at 2, History at Play’s Judith Kalaora brings Deborah Sampson to life at the Town House Museum, the first woman to fight in and be honorably discharged from the U.S. military. It’s free, a short walk from downtown, and the rare summer Saturday where the whole thing — muskets, camp, and all — sits on the actual site of the raid.
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Where
Mill Hill
Historic Park
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When
Sat July 11
10 AM–3 PM
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Admission
Free · all
ages welcome
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History & tickets →
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This week · two more to circle
The other picks.
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№ 02 · Sat, July 11 · River Street, SoNo · 4–8 PM
River Street Sunset Bazaar
If history isn’t your speed, the city’s new evening market is back: River Street in South Norwalk closes down for an open-air Sunset Bazaar, 4 to 8 PM. Local vendors and makers, craft drinks and food, live music, and lawn games — all timed for golden hour, steps from the Washington Street restaurants. Free to wander, kid- and dog-friendly. It’s the second of three this summer, with the last on August 8.
Vendors & details →
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№ 03 · Sat, July 11 · Norwalk Public Library · 11 AM
Colonial Candle Making for Adults
Keeping with the 250th, the Main Library runs an America 250 colonial candle-making workshop for adults in the Studio One maker space. Dip your own taper the way Norwalk households lit their homes back in 1779, and take it with you. Free, but space is limited — the library asks that you register ahead.
Register →
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Also on the calendar
Eight more, Tue to Sun.
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Tue 7
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Freese Park, Wall & Main · free all-ages open jam — bring an instrument or just listen
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6:30 PM
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Wed 8
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A Norwalk America-250 program on the people and moments that shaped the Revolution — runs through the weekend
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Wed–Sun
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Thu 9
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314 Beer Garden · beginner-friendly line dancing under the lights — no partner needed
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7–10 PM
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Fri 10
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Washington Street Plaza, SoNo · all-ages, all-abilities group ride with Sustainable Streets
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7–8:30 PM
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Sat 11
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Keep Norwalk Beautiful · the monthly Norwalk River Valley Trail cleanup by Riverside Cemetery — planting, weeding, and litter pickup
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10 AM–12 PM
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Sat 11
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Norwalk Town Green · the district’s free summer concert series — bring a blanket or a low chair
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7–9 PM
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Sun 12
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The Norwalk Art Space · a free panel talk for the America 250 exhibition
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3–4:30 PM
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Sun 12
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Calf Pasture Beach · a sunrise reset on the sand with Create Grow Flow — ocean air and singing bowls
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8–9 AM
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Shuck yeah · a fact from the harbor
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The dredge · the night Norwalk burned
Here’s why the reenactors camp at Mill Hill this weekend. On July 11, 1779 — 247 years ago Saturday — British forces under General William Tryon came ashore from the Sound and put Norwalk to the torch. More than a hundred buildings — homes, churches, mills, and shops — burned in a single day, part of a campaign meant to punish Connecticut’s coast for backing the Revolution. Norwalk rebuilt, and the burying ground at Mill Hill still holds the Revolutionary soldiers who were here for it. This weekend the muskets are loaded with blanks — but the date, and the ground, are the real thing.
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