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Stephen Watson Stephe Watson (born Stephen Bradley Watson; 9 September, 1969) in Meriden, Connecticut is an American martial artist and teacher.

Early Life and Education

Stephen Watson, son of ___ and __ spent his childhood in Connecticut in the river town name Branford on the Long Island Sound.

Watson began his study…

Stephen Watson has immersed himself in Eastern philosophy for over 20 years. Watson's martial arts training (the how) began in concert with his interest in philosophy (the why). His motto is: When you have enough “Whys,” you have “Wise.” He is regularly featured in "Inside Kung-Fu" magazine for both his jovial personality and world-class skill. An international, U.S., and now, world champion in Tai Chi push hands, he operates a small martial arts school in Connecticut where he hosts masters and students. 1

Career

Stephen Watson founded Shh Dragon....

Speaking

Stephen Watson was asked to speak for World Qigong day speak at the Theosophical Society and delivered “The Whispering of the Tao”, April 25, 7 p.m. in Chicago, IL. “Today’s Taoist, though perhaps having traded a robe and bowl for a suit and iPhone, still walks among us. It is the person unmotivated by fear, breaking into smile and song at any new wonder. If you look carefully you can know the Taoist as one who does not “duel” with “duality.” There is no opposition, no rigidity to the world. A Taoist has his ear bent to the eternal winds of “How it is,” while dancing, through what appears to the non-Taoist to be ordinary everyday life, with insight and delight in place of fright and fight. Come have a listen to the whispering of the Tao. “

Someday Farm

The Land –HISTORY The Hammonasset Indians once considered this property home. Their village was on the northern edge of Someday Farm where Wolf Meadow and Roast Meat Hill Roads meet, though they ranged from the Aigicomock (now the East River, then the Ruttawoo or as the Mohegans knew it, the Moosamuttuck) in Guilford and the Connecticut River on their western border.

In the mid-1600s the New Haven colony was bounded on its east by the Hammonasset River where its most eastern town was Guilford. The Connecticut’s Colony’s most western town was Saybrook and its boundary was the Menunketesuck River. Over fifty square miles remained unsettled between these two settlements. The southern portion of this un-settlement was what is now Clinton while the northern portion is now Killingworth.

Killingworth is at a higher elevation and is more hilly, forested, and rocky. In 1663 the town of Killingworth was officially settled though not officially named until 1667. At a Court of Election held in Hartford on May 9, 1667, it was ordered that “ye towne of Homonoscit shal for ye future be named Kenilworth, & for yr brand of horses they shal have ye letter V on ye near buttock.” Kenilworth was most likely chosen as it is the English town name from which Killingworth’s first delegate to the General Court (then both the general Assembly and Court), Edward Griswold was born in 1607. Through corruption of spelling, Kenilworth became Killingworth which was used exclusively after 1707.

The abovementioned ‘town’ included present day Clinton and thus extended to the Long Island Sound at its southern edge. On May 8, 1735 an Act of Organization was passed by the General Assembly which divided Clinton and Killingworth “in the County of New London into two Distinct Ecclesiastical Societies.” An ecclesiastical society could tax its inhabitants and was obligated to tend to its members cemetery, religious, and schooling needs. Town meetings and other secular governmental needs continued to be met in Clinton. In 1838 Killingworth fully separated from Clinton though it retained a right to the town dock and beach.

The oldest cemetery in Killingworth is the Union District Yard, laid out March 22, 1738 just north of Wolf Meadow Rd. Hermann Broch died in 1951 in New Haven, Connecticut. He is buried in Killingworth, Connecticut, in the cemetery on Roast Meat Hill Road. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Reginald Frye was a prior owner of Someday Farm. Pat Worth was a prior owner of Someday Farm. 1

References

1. Theoshophical Society.org World Tai Chi and Qigong Day, Saturday April 27.

Rick Barrett, through the Western Gate, pg 79

External Links


 * Someday Farm website


 * Someday Farm: The History