Connecticut
Mansfield Drive-in to open for 2026 season
MANSFIELD, Conn. (WTNH) — The Mansfield Drive-in is back open and ready to play some movies for guests starting the first weekend of April.
The drive-in’s first showing will be Thursday, April 2, with shows only through Sunday, April 5. At the start of the season, the theater usually sticks to weekend-only showtimes.
Gates will open at 6:30 p.m., with the first showtime starting at approximately 8 p.m. each night.
Movies playing this weekend include:
Screen 1:
8 p.m. “Super Mario Galaxy Movie”
9:55 p.m. “Reminders of Him”
Screen 2:
8 p.m. “Project Hail Mary”
10:10 p.m. “Crime 101”
Screen 3:
8 p.m. “Scream 7”
10:10 p.m. “undertone”
Tickets are available online in advance or at the gate. Pets are allowed as long as they are leashed and owners pick up after them.
The Original Southington Drive-In is slated to open in June.
The search continues for a rare collection of Abraham Lincoln artifacts that went missing after a visit to Connecticut College in New London, including a letter written days after the president’s assassination.
Sameer Somal, a Lincoln enthusiast, said the artifacts disappeared Tuesday after he accidentally left the folder containing them on top of his car and drove away following interviews with fellow Lincoln scholars at Connecticut College.
“The plan was to interview them, and I was going to show them some of these artifacts,” Somal said.
Somal said he has spent years assembling the collection, which included portraits of Lincoln, original Civil War-era newspapers, and an original invitation to Lincoln’s 1864 inaugural ball.
Among the items was a document Somal described as especially significant.
“There was a letter, which is particularly precious, written on April 17th, 1865, from General William Tecumseh Sherman about the assassination of Mr. Lincoln,” Somal said.
After realizing the folder was missing, Somal contacted campus security. He said he was initially told the folder had been recovered, but later learned security had mistaken it for a book that had fallen from his car.
“I proceeded to look in the dark in my state of disappointment and trauma,” Somal said.
The next day, Somal made the five-hour trip back to New London and checked with the police. He believes the folder likely fell on or near the Connecticut College campus, but it has not been turned in.
Somal said the loss goes beyond the monetary value of the artifacts, as the collection was intended to serve as a centerpiece for a future museum dedicated to Lincoln in Illinois.
Now he is asking whoever found the folder to return it.
“I will do anything to get these items back and anything to help someone else in life if I can just get them back,” Somal said.
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