The actor's return to the fictional Connecticut town came eight years after Netflix’s “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life,” and 17 years since the WB and CW show ended. When the opportunity ...

it is said to be based on Washington and New Milford, Connecticut, small towns about an hour outside of Hartford. Hartford is another major setting in Gilmore Girls, and is not fictional.

The Whitakers organized the first festival, previously titled "Gilmore Girls Fan Fest," in 2016 in Washington Depot ... quintessential Connecticut with a weekend of fan fest activities." ...

“Gilmore Girls” fans may finally learn the source ... Instead of succumbing to a stuffy upper-class life in Hartford, Connecticut, with her two rigid parents — and feeling forced to marry ...