OUR HISTORY

In 1964, an idealistic young man named Jack Galanek came across a beautiful tract of land in Tolland, Massachusetts while cruising timber for his father's lumber company. Jack has moved on, but the community of vacation homes he founded on that land, where people live in the midst of nature while respecting and protecting its pristine environment, is the Wildwood of today.​

• History of Wildwood in Tolland, MA (87kb) written by Madeleine Lawrence in 1991.
• "Lumberjack Lady finds the Simple Life" (829kb) - Connie Galanek in the Hartford Courant 1/31/71.
• Wildwood's old Ski Area - reminiscences by a Wildwood visitor and an ex-Wildwood ski tow operator.
• Wildwood's Philosophy (475kb) as described by developer Jack Galanek in a August 13, 1972 Hartford Courant full-page ad.
• "The Wildwooders" - 1970's advertisement spoofing Jack and Connie Galanek as 'The Honeymooners'.