Ridgefield has long been a destination-for tourists seeking a
picturesque country village, for city dwellers looking for a weekend and
summer retreat, and for immigrants in search of a new life. In the first
half of the twentieth century, a period that corresponded to the heyday
of the picture postcard, hundreds of views were published, depicting the
beautiful Main Street, the many inns and resorts, the mansions, estates,
village shops, churches, and scenic hills and lakes. Ridgefield:
1900-1950 offers more than two hundred of these glimpses of a bygone
time of affluence and change-what one historian has called Ridgefield's
golden era.