“Life has all sorts of hills and valleys, and sometimes you don’t end up doing what you had your heart set on, but sometimes that’s even better.’’
— Ruth Buzzi (born 1936), actress and comedian. She was raised in the village of Wequetequock. in Stonington, Conn., in a rock house overlooking the ocean at Wequetequock Cove. Her father owned Buzzi Memorials, a stone-sculpture business that her older brother Harold operated until his retirement, in 2013.