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Please join us for our 35th Annual Ice Cream Social Sunday, May 31st from 1-3pm. This festive celebration and antique car show will include ice cream (generously provided by Gofer) as well as cakes and cookies donated by the National Charity Leagues. The town band will play patriotic music and there will be old fashioned games for kids. And, its all FREE!
Caroling at God’s Acre for Christmas is one of New Canaan’s most cherished events of the year, a nostalgic, Rockwellian gathering that brings the community together unlike any other celebration. New Canaan First Selectman Rob Mallozzi called it a “sacred and treasured New Canaan tradition.” “It’s something that distinguishes New Canaan and its citizens above all the other towns around us,” he told NewCanaanite.com. Held on the plot of land above which the Congregational Church was built—the institution upon which the town was founded, the caroling sees scores of New Canaanites descend each year on what literally is hallowed ground, as it is believed many of New Canaan’s settlers are still buried at God’s Acre. But how did it start, and when?