Tag Archives: Bethany

This Week in New Haven (November 27 – December 3)

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Policy discussions give way to fests, fairs and parties as dozens of decorous Christmas trees, including the big one in the center of town, are unveiled. …

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Out of Season

Lake Dawson and West Rock Ridge

Quietly, cradled by Hamden woods, is how the West River begins. …

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Books and Crannies

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A photo essay. (To view all the photos, check out the email version of this story.)

Unlike the pastoral, fleetingly autumnal lands that surround it, Whitlock’s Book Barn, established in…

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For the Record

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“I don’t know why we didn’t give up,” Frank Sacramone said last night with a laugh, his dark mop still damp with sweat. Sacramone’s Bethany-based progressive metal band, Earthside, had just finished a …

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This Week in New Haven (May 25 – 31)

Taylor Livingston

Horses and miniature donkeys—plus a Monday holiday—make for a great start to an eccentric week, with smart homegrown hip hop, fringe…

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This Week in New Haven (May 11 – 17)

Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Brick, screening Wednesday at the Whitney Humanities Center

Legacies loom large this week. A New York Yankee looks to preserve his. An employee of the Smithsonian discusses protecting others’. An arts…

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Life of the Party

Bill Fischer

If you want to find an African drum circle, learn to play the Irish penny whistle or the Indian hurdy gurdy, brush up on your New England contra or square dancing, get a few gardening tips, celebrate a change of …

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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 …

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