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Good morning from the shoreline.

Mother's Day weekend lands Sunday with a dozen brunches between Mystic and Stonington, a sailboat on the river with mimosas, a planter workshop, three flower sales, a farm day. If you haven't planned anything yet, you can still pull this off without panicking.

Here's what I've surfaced this week.

Sunday May 10th is Mother's Day, and there's no shortage of options on the shoreline. Three different shapes of day, depending on what your Mom actually wants:

Sit-down brunch. Engine Room and Shipwright's Daughter in Mystic are both running a holiday service starting at 10am. Worth booking today if you haven't yet. Hilton Mystic, S&P Oyster, Port of Call, Filomena's in Waterford, and Rocks 21 are also on deck.

Outdoors. Stone Acres Farm in Stonington opens at 10am for a Mother's Day farm day, or head up to Stonington Vineyards for food, wine, and live music.

On the water. Mother's Day Sailing aboard ARGIA leaves Mystic at 9:30am with complimentary mimosas for two hours on the river.

If your Mom is a flower person: the Trillium Garden Club Plant Sale in Groton runs Saturday morning and Union Baptist Church in Mystic is doing a flower sale Saturday afternoon.

Full Mother's Day rundown in the Events section below.

Jacques Pépin is in town at Oyster Club for the 50th anniversary of La Technique, the cookbook that taught a generation of American chefs how to actually cook. Dinner and a book signing.

Project Oceanology and the Stonington Kelp Company partnered up to take folks out on the water and show what an actual working kelp farm looks like. Two hours on the boat with the people doing the work.

Chef Jacques Pépin's 50th Anniversary of "La Technique" Dinner & Book Signing Oyster Club · 6pm · Mystic

Mother's Day Breakfast at Mystic Aquarium Mystic Aquarium · 8:30am · Mystic

Mother’s Day Mixology at Kitch Mystic Kitch Mystic · 6pm · Mystic

Mother's Day Brunch at The Shipwright's Daughter Shipwright's Daughter · 10am · Mystic

Mother's Day Brunch at Rocks 21 Rocks 21 · 10am · Mystic

Mother's Day at Stone Acres Farm Stone Acres Farm · 10am · Stonington

Mother's Day Brunch at Oyster Club Oyster Club · 10am · Mystic

Mother’s Day at Engine Room Engine Room · 10am · Mystic

Mother's Day Brunch at Haring's Haring's · 10am · Mystic

Mother's Day Dining at S&P Oyster S&P Oyster · 11am · Mystic

Mother's Day Brunch at The Port of Call The Port of Call · 11am · Mystic

Mother's Day Brunch at Filomena's Filomena's · 11am · Waterford

Mother's Day Brunch at Hilton Mystic Hilton Mystic · 11am · Mystic

Mother's Day at Stonington Vineyards Stonington Vineyards · 1:30pm · Stonington

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Hike In The Woods With GOSA Candlewood Ridge Trails · 1pm · Groton

Bill Morse: Lost New London Program - History Talk Public Library of New London · 5pm · New London

Fright Club - Horror Themed Book Club Stonington Free Library · 5:30pm · Stonington

Emily Sullivan (A Murder in Marylebone) Author Talk and Signing Bank Square Books · 6pm · Mystic

Karaoke The Misfit Club · 7:30pm · Mystic

Springfest 2026 – Misquamicut Beach 5pm · Westerly

Exhibit Opening: En Plein Air ~ Stonington's Plein Air Art Club La Grua Center · 5pm · Stonington

The Psychology of Serial Killers The United Theatre · 8pm · Westerly

Stonington Village Farmers Market 9am · Stonington

Trillium Garden Club Plant Sale Groton Public Library · 9am · Groton

Mother's Day Flower Sale Union Baptist Church · 9am · Mystic

Kelp Farm Boat Tour With Project Oceanology & Stonington Kelp Company Project Oceanology · 9am · Groton

Volunteer Library Clean-Up Day Mystic & Noank Library - Library Lawn · 9am · Mystic

Gungywamp Hike with Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center 500 Gungywamp Road, Groton. · 1pm · Groton

Union Baptist Church Mother's Day Flower Sale Union Baptist Church · 1pm · Mystic

Improv for Introverts, Extroverts, and Everyone-in-Between Mystic & Noank Library · 2pm · Mystic

Dance Saturday at The Misfit Club The Misfit Club · 8pm · Mystic

Stories of Somewhere Art Exhibit Hygienic Art · 10pm · New London

Opus for Peace Juried Art Show Opening Reception Hygienic Art · 10pm · New London

Mother's Day Sailing: Complimentary Mimosas Aboard ARGIA 9:30am · Mystic

Mother’s Day Planter Workshop (Ages 16+) Stonington Community Center · 12pm · Stonington

Free Open Studios at the Mystic Museum of Art Mystic Museum of Art · 1pm · Mystic

Trivia Night at Friar Tuck's Tavern Friar Tuck's · 6:30pm · Mystic

Jeffrey Harrison (Between Lakes) Author Talk and Signing Bank Square Books · 5pm · Mystic

Light the Way Book Launch Event The Spot · 5pm · Groton

Trivia Night The Jealous Monk · 7pm · Mystic

Visit wailingcity.com for complete live music list and venue updates

Welcome Daisy Duke to the Crew! Thanks for sharing with us Kristen and reminding us to enjoy the sun while it’s here.

It's 1844, and you've finished a long day on the docks. You swing into 79 Bank Street to pick up groceries and provisions for the week. The building is brand new — Captain Giles Harris from one of New London's whaling families just put it up. He lives upstairs and sells groceries and provisions downstairs.

Fast-forward to 1878. Same corner, same building. Only now it's the Columbia Hotel, and you're booking a room for the weekend.

Skip ahead to 1931. The Sigros family has taken over and renamed the place the Hygienic Restaurant and Delicatessen. You sit down for a sandwich.

By 1996 the restaurant is gone and the building is nine days from being torn down to make a parking lot for the bank next door. A group of volunteer artists incorporate as Hygienic Art, Inc., wins a stay of demolition under the state's Environmental Protection Act and buys the building outright in 1998.

The gallery opens in 2000 and is still there. If you stand on the corner of Bank and Golden this Saturday for the Stories of Somewhere opening at Hygienic Art, you're standing in a whaling captain's grocery store.

That's your week!

Enjoy and talk Thursday.