It’s hard work catching a chicken. Kids squat and chase in pursuit, feathers fly, parents look on equally amused and alert. “I don’t think I have ever touched a chicken before in my life,” says one mother. Changing that sort …
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The Ice is Right
By the time March rolls around, most of us are thinking spring. The promise of a return to fair weather seems increasingly tantalizing now that the sun is shining well past 6 p.m., thanks in no small part to Daylight …
Turning the Page
You might remember a series of commercials from the early 90s featuring adorable young children standing on stage, smiling in the spotlight and exuberantly declaring, “Hooked on Phonics worked for me!”
Sound familiar? If you’re reading this easily, you’re proficient …
Hearts and Minds
It’s clear from the moment you walk into the lobby—featuring colorful, soft couches and hand-painted murals—that creating a positive, safe feeling of community is a priority at the Clifford Beers Clinic, an outpatient mental health facility for children located in …
Head Toward the Lights
A green, smiling dragon and sailboat rock back and forth through ocean waves. A festive train carries candy canes and gifts with bows. A tireless Victorian paperboy throws his newspaper over and over.
These are some of the denizens of …
Brushing Up
Overflowing bags of Halloween loot—Tootsie Rolls, cherry-flavored lollipops and mini Snickers bars—hang around long after the holiday is over, a daily temptation.
Dr. Darnell Young won’t say what his favorite candy was as a kid, although he admits to having …
Roll Players
You probably have a picture of roller derby in your head that feels very 1970s: a bunch of tough gals with campy, sexually suggestive pseudonyms skating in a sloped circle on tiny tires, slamming each other into walls; a scripted …
Touch and Go
Costumes, games, puzzles, puppets, playhouses. Bugs, drums, wheel barrows, Lincoln Logs, a maze. Toy planes and trains and trucks and cars, toy toolboxes, a toy piano. And stuffed animals. Oh, the stuffed animals. Elephants, giraffes, mice, frogs, monkeys. Bears and …
Child’s Play
After Toddler Tunes is over, while they’re packing up plastic bags of Cheerios and buckling squirmy toddlers into strollers, parents might just catch a glimpse of guitarist Robert Messore’s other life.
This particular crowd knows…
Getting Together with the Folk
The Connecticut Folk Festival has changed its form several times over the years. This year it even considered changing its location—from its longtime Edgerton Park site on the edge of town to the central downtown location on New Haven Green.…
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