This little village appears every spring in a grassy nook at the east end of Main Street in Stonington. It is the creation of the late Everett Knowlton, a state road worker, who made one miniature building a year, beginning in 1947. Knowlton modeled many of his eighteen buildings after actual Stonington structures, and he displayed his village, which he illuminated and populated with dolls, on a ledgy knoll outside of town year-round. The woman who acquired the property after Knowlton’s death donated the buildings to the town, and the village became a seasonal affair. Before temperatures plummet and snow flies, residents will come to collect the buildings, which they take home to repair, paint, and otherwise freshen up for another season.  — Virginia M. Wright