By late 1964, Yale graduate students Jon Jory and Harlan Kleiman realized they shared an uncommon aspiration: to start a theater. In a 1966 article for Smith Alumnae Quarterly, the late New Haven arts scene powerhouse Elizabeth “Betty” Kubler (more…)
Beat It
Kelly Turner Cole spent two decades serving the public as a New Haven police officer. Eventually becoming a trainer of new recruits, before that she spent years policing the Beaver Hills area. (more…)
Nativity Scene
It’s tough sharing a birthday with Christmas, but in Nu Haven Kapelye’s case, that was the whole point. The band’s first performance happened on December 25, 1998, in order to give non-observers something fun to do. (more…)
Bearing Fruit
When most of us hear the word “kiwi,” we picture a fuzzy, fleshy, sweet, slightly tart fruit (named, incidentally, for New Zealand’s national bird). Not so for Stacey and Eitan Battat of Woodbridge. When, in 2005, the couple decided to create a publishing company out of their home, they named it Kiwi Publishing—not as a […]
Live and Learn
“This is not a school,” former school teacher Elisabeth Kennedy says, and technically, she’s right. Beacon Self-Directed Learning, the nonprofit center she helps run with Catherine Shannon and Catherine Fisher at the eastern end of Whalley (more…)
Twists of Plate
Upper State Street patisserie/boulangerie/cafe Chestnut Fine Foods & Confections has been around for as long as owners Fred and Patty Walker have been married: 28 years. (more…)
Patch Work
Jacqueline Maisonpierre doesn’t seem to mind getting her hands dirty. As the farm manager at New Haven Farms, Maisonpierre (pictured third) splits her time between seven tiny patches of (more…)
Photographic Memories
Paul Duda named his dogs for one of his favorite cameras. Currently his chocolate lab Leica II, a frisky successor to Leica I, “makes my life healthier. He’s the sweetest guy. He doesn’t growl and he loves visitors.” (more…)
Well-Played
Perhaps you know her as Mrs. Braddock (pictured second), Dustin Hoffman’s concerned mom in the iconic 1967 coming-of-age movie The Graduate. Or as Roz, the snitch who sat on the toilet seat in the ladies (more…)