Summer Drive

Summer Drive

A photo essay. To view all 18 images, check out the email version.

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Some things that sum up summer: classic cars.

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Comfort Recliners at Fairhaven Furniture

The 23rd annual Memorial Weekend Car Show, held at Quinnipiac University just before Memorial Day 2017, had them in droves: countless combinations of sculpted steel, buffed chrome, luminous paint.

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Learn to Code - New Haven Free Public Library

Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of this sizzling season, but as of Saturday, June 20, it’s indisputable: Summer has arrived.

Written and photographed by Dan Mims. This lightly updated story originally published on June 21, 2017.

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