Ah, March!

“March brings many things, but not hurricanes. But yesterday it brought a storm and a temperature drop, a farewell gesture from winter. The pipes froze again in the back part of the house. And as I viewed the solidly frozen bath mat in my shower, I felt I could do without any record-breaking statistics.’’

— Gladys Taber (1899-1980), in The Stillmeadow Road (1959). A prolific writer, she lived for 20 years in a 1690 farmhouse in Southbury, Conn., whence she wrote her “Stillmeadow series’’ about New England country living. Southbury now is more exurbia than country.

Southbury town seal