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"Beecher Society President Chandler Saint decided on Tuesday that a 90-acre parcel of land in Torrington, adjacently located to the University of Connecticut campus, would be the best out-of-town site for the would-be museum and teaching facility. After thanking the leaders of Falls Village, Guilford, Harwinton and Burlington, who all expressed interest in obtaining the house, Saint said he chose the Torrington site because it offers the potential of combining UConn's Human Rights and Yale University's Gilder Lehrman programs with Beecher's. Saint said he will begin detailed negotiations and discussions with UConn Torrington Campus Director Adriane Lyon and Torrington Mayor Owen Quinn over the next few weeks to finalize a potential plan. During those weeks, Saint said he will give Dorothea DiCecco, the leader of the committee in search of a Litchfield site and president of Citizens for the Historic Reconstruction of the Wadsworth-Beecher House, a little more time to recommend a viable in-town option for the house. Having searched for a site since voters refused to sell town-owned land behind Town Hall in Nov., DiCecco said her hopes of securing a piece of property located in Stowe's hometown have significantly diminished, due to a lack of support shown by town leaders. According to DiCecco, the only response she received from any town official was a recommendation from First Selectman Jerry Zinn and Selectman Chris Blake for a possible site on South Street, which she later found was unavailable. \"My main disappointment is the lack of involvement shown by the town's leaders,\" DiCecco said. \"It is remarkable to us that the selectmen would do such a thing as to waste our time and energy by suggesting one proposal that was not even available.\" Saint, who said he has spent $4,000 each month since Nov. 5, trying to relocate the house, will announce the future site of the Beecher House on June 14-Harriet's birthday. If the house does not find a home in Litchfield, it will be received with open arms in Torrington, according to Lyon, who said she is thrilled about the Torrington-UConn site being chosen as the best site alternative remaining out of Litchfield. \"We are all very excited about that prospect,\" Lyon said. \"I've spoken with people on campus, professors, President of the Chamber of Commerce JoAnn Ryan, who all have a different outlook on this, and they were unanimous about what this can mean for our campus, and what it could mean for the economic development for the town as a whole.\""
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