On the opposite end of Connecticut, the Litchfield Hills region is the state's other major destination for serious leaf-peeping.

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Spot a croc at Litchfield National Park, a favourite haunt of Darwinites being just 115 km south from the Territory's metropolis.

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The Tomassos, who are family friends of the Rowlands, helped to arrange the work on the Litchfield holiday cottage.

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At noon at a polling station in Litchfield, a small town about 20 minutes outside of Manchester, not a single person was there waving a Romney sign.

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At White Flower Farm, a mail-order nursery in Litchfield, Conn.

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Mr Litchfield declares that his role was as Thyssen's confessor.

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It is only a matter of time before David Litchfield is blamed for the SQL Slammer worm, because he figured out how it could be done and told the world.

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That said, if you play your cards right, you could end up like one former oil company executive and his wife, who live in a guest cottage on a 3, 500-acre Litchfield County, Conn.

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For example, Mr Litchfield alleges that Thyssen's fourth wife and her lover took a commission from the seller on all Thyssen's purchases, of which there were no fewer than 800 during their marriage.

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He spins an extraordinary tale of great industrial wealth, compulsive acquisition of art, decorated with complicated sub-plots involving serial adultery and divorce. (His failure to decide whether this is industrial history, art history or good gossip must explain the meaningless title.) Thyssen had five wives, though Mr Litchfield's account of these marriages was at the mercy of Thyssen's memory, which was impaired by alcoholism and the arrogance of wealth.

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