March|April ‘26 President’s Letter
Our Cover Feature, ALEX COCO, who won the 2025 Best Picture Oscar for Producing the feature-length film Anora, is a ‘homegrown hero’ - someone who grows up locally and goes out into the world and makes us proud. And while we frequently focus our Cover Features on B&NC locals who are much more famous, like Martha Stewart, Clive Davis, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, and Chevy Chase, we relish the opportunity to sometimes also highlight our homegrown heroes and focus acclaim on their achievements. Zach Allen, who grew up in New Canaan and now plays NFL’s Defensive End for the Denver Broncos - and who was our Jan/Feb ‘22 Cover Feature, and Will Reeve, who grew up in Bedford and was orphaned when his father Christopher Reeve and then his mother, Dana, both passed and who is now a leading ABC News correspondent and who was our - Jan/Feb ‘21 Cover Feature, are but two examples of the homegrown heroes we’ve been most pleased to honor.
In this issue, I also want to call your particular attention to our feature titled ‘Equicenter’ about how NORTH SALEM has become the equestrian epicenter of the Northeast, and to the article by award- winning photographer and Bedfordite Emily Fisher titled The Man on The Ice about an ice fi sherman she photographed out on the frozen Titicus Reservoir - also in NORTH SALEM.
As I wrote to you in the Jan/Feb 2026 issue wherein our Cover Feature on The Fabulous Humphrey Sisters, who together won the NCAA Women’s Lacrosse National Championship playing at the University of North Carolina in 2025, was meant to emphasize that Bedford & New Canaan Magazine focuses on things DARIEN…We are Bedford & New Canaan Magazine, but we’re much more than just BEDFORD and NEW CANAAN!
We’re NORTH SALEM too!
We bought the then 15-year old Bedford Magazine in 2020 and renamed it as Bedford & New Canaan Magazine to connote that we were redefining the publication’s coverage to circumscribe the real cross- State-border community where we live…and we expanded the distribution to the 25,000 most affluent households in the area.
And, beyond BEDFORD and NEW CANAAN and DARIEN and NORTH SALEM, we also continually cover the people, places, and goings-on in, and distribute Bedford & New Canaan Magazine to: RIDGEFIELD, and to ARMONK, BEDFORD HILLS, KATONAH, MT. KISCO, PURCHASE, PLEASANTVILLE, POUND RIDGE, SOUTH SALEM, and WACCABUC.
We’re proud to be the magazine people in our cross-State-border community turn-to to be introduced to some of the most interesting residents in our community, to get in to see some of the most spectacular houses in the area, and to learn about the plethora of fantastic charities and cultural institutions that are the fibre - and the pride - of our region. …Our readers devote an average of one hour and twenty minutes to each issue of Bedford & New Canaan Magazine!
