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KENT—A special presentation, “People and Places of Kent,” with John Casey will be offered Wednesday, Oct. 16, at 11 a.m.

Long the center of commerce in Kent, N.M. Watson & Co. was run by the Casey family for many years. A shopper could buy dry goods, lumber, kitchenware, building tools and supplies and just about anything else in this old-fashioned general store. Photo contributed

Casey will talk about his family’s longtime Kent institution, N.M. Watson and Company, the general store and lumberyard on Main Street that once stood where Kent Town Center is now located.

He will also talk about the beginnings of Kent Green.

The program will be held at the Kent Senior Center, 16 Swift Lane.

Kathryn Boughton
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Kathryn Boughton has been editor of the Kent Dispatch since its digital reincarnation in October 2023 as a nonprofit online publication. A native of Canaan, Conn., Kathryn has been a regional journalist for more than 50 years, having been employed by both the Lakeville Journal and Litchfield County Times as managing editor. While with the LCT, she was also editor of the former print Kent Good Times Dispatch from 2005 until 2009.

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