The first time Purdy Eaton visited Sharon, Connecticut, she’d come to see a friend - on what turned out to be “a brutally cold February weekend,” she says. Despite the weather, Purdy, an artist whose work is shown in galleries across the country, was smitten the town of about 2700, situated just east of the New York border. To her, Sharon offered “all the good things of a small town - friendly people and access to nature,” plus an easy commute from New York City, where she and her husband, Josh, who runs an investment firm, live in a Tribeca apartment with their children, Sawyer, 14 and Huxley, 11. By the weekend’s end, she’d decided to book a place in town for the summer.
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