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Purr Persons

Greater New Haven Cat Project

Cats sleep on scratching posts and atop a filing cabinet. They climb over crates and leap elegantly from desk to floor. They paw at toys on the ground and traipse over to take a curious sniff of my boots. It’s a tiny little place, but they look at home. “You can call me crazy, and […]

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Home, Sweet Home

Neighborhood Housing Services

Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven’s campus is like its own little neighborhood, a cluster of colorfully painted houses with homey furniture inside. NHS’s mission is to revitalize (more…)

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Shelf Life

Whitlock's Book Barn

It’s a gloomy day when a friend and I pull into Whitlock’s Book Barn, just fifteen minutes outside of New Haven in rustic Bethany, CT. The skies are cloudy and gray, and the rain is heavy, blurring the windshield—perfect conditions for spending a day inside a cozy used bookstore, especially one with so much character. […]

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