WESTON — A parcel of land on the Weston-Wilton border long treasured by Oscar-winning actor Christopher Plummer and his wife, Elaine Taylor, will now be protected for generations to come.
Taylor has donated 8 acres of their property to the Aspetuck Land Trust, supporting its push to create a 750-acre nature preserve along the town border.
"It would be our big loop," Taylor said about the walks she and her husband, who died in 2021, would take with their four dogs. "We would go down to the fields with the dogs and then come back and do the loop again. The land has been part of our lives for 40 years," she said.
Though she lives in Weston, Taylor’s donated parcel sits across the street in Wilton. The land is part of a 750-acre “reserve assemblage project” that Aspetuck has been piecing together for years, said David Brant, the Land Trust’s executive director.