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The Wallingford Farmers Market (Wednesdays, 3:30 – 7 pm at Meridian Park) has settled into a bucolic little slice of heaven: swaddled in the old stone walls of the Good Shepherd Center, fresh fruits, vegetables and meat stacked high, families picnicking and kids playing on the field and in the park and the odd musician strumming and singing.

It just makes me want to lie on the wall next to the swings, watching the colors of the setting sun on the backs of my eyelids and humming Neil Young’s After The Gold Rush to myself (ya know, the first verse, with “the knights in armor”, “peasants singing and drummers drumming and the archer split the tree” and the fanfare blowing and floating on the breeze, not the second verse, with the burned out basement. The basement’s dated, but nice.)

Well, as if it couldn’t get any more summery and cheerful, the Wallingford Chamber, the Wallingford Community Council and CUTZ Meridian Hair and Art are sponsoring live music once a month, starting tomorrow, with NW Ritual Drum and Dance from 5:30 – 7:00 PM .