At its Church Street location near Grove, among so many bustling office buildings, Walker-Loden gets its fair share of lunch-hour browsers.
Perhaps they’re in need of a get-well card. Or a hostess gift for a dinner party that evening. Maybe …
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Down to Earth
If there is one thing Connecticut residents want after a cold and gray New England winter, it’s a bit of color to reinvigorate our weary souls, and our landscapes, too.
Now’s the right time to officially trade mittens and insulated …
Your Hoppy Place
Dried Woodruff. Heather Tips. Flaked Rye. Gypsum. Iris Moss. Amarillo.
These may sound like things you’d find bubbling in a witch’s cauldron. In fact, they’re just a few examples of the wide range of ingredients, amidst…
Clothes Calls
Felicity Fries can fold a t-shirt perfectly in the blink of an eye. Somehow, she slips a finger along an edge, pulls down on a corner and presto!—it’s a smooth, flat rectangle. I watch her do it, attentive, hoping …
Cleaning House
Aunt Josephine’s teddy bear collection. The slinky dress that will fit again…someday. Stacks of t-shirts, including that threadbare but irreplaceable souvenir from the Bon Jovi concert in ’87. You don’t wear it anymore, but you just can’t seem to get …
Up in Frames
Merwin’s has a new frame, and it’s not one of the store’s customized specials.
It’s a chain link fence surrounding the construction site a few yards away from the famed local framing shop—a fortunately temporary distraction erected so workmen…
Power Trip
United Illuminating is in the business of distributing energy. At the UI-managed SmartLiving Center, however, the goal is to get customers to use less.
The Center, a small museum of sorts dedicated to energy …
High Volumes
There isn’t a massive rolling boulder hot on my heels, and I don’t hear a John Williams score swelling in the background. Still, it’s hard not to feel like Indiana Jones as I climb the four floors of literary and …
Staying Flower
Geraldine Cullinan knows her flowers. She knows the delicate orchids, the hearty succulents and the colorful tulips, too.
It’s an important reason why Cullinan’s flower shop, “Geraldine, a florist,” has passed New Haven’s smell test for over 30 years, first …
All Dolled Up
“They’re so proper,” Chen Reichert says. “They were just asking for it.”
Reichert is speaking, of all things, about postcards. After a year of teaching English in Japan, Reichert came back to the States in 2006 with a tall stack …
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