Mucking out stables in Litchfield

From the January issue: During the 1970s, the population of vacation-home owners in Litchfield County quickly began to grow. The growth was fed by a stream of artists and intellectuals, many of them supposedly on the run from the Hamptons, where they recognized that preppy coeds, grating disco music and gridlocked weekend traffic signaled the end of their quiet way of life. Many first became acquainted with Litchfield County through Carolyn Klemm, a former buyer for Bergdorf Goodman in Manhattan who along with husband David, co-founded Klemm Real Estate. Longtime residents said Klemm’s weekend garden parties were a gateway for the county’s transformation into a quiet retreat for the city’s intelligentsia.