Tag Archives: Guilford

A Delightful Ramble

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“From the Sound to the Summits” is the tag line for the New England Trail, a 215-mile trek that begins in Guilford at the Long Island Sound and stitches together four major trails to form a continuous foot route all the way to Mount Grace State Forest and Royalston Falls at the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border. […]

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Shopping Center

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One of the area’s best venues for holiday shopping may also be one of its best-kept secrets. (more…)

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This Week in New Haven (November 22 – 28)

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New Haven’s Thanksgiving Week traditions—impudent live music, delightful model trains, locavorous gift shopping—return. (more…)

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At the Dawn

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Quinnipiac was the name first given to the land that, on September 1, 1640, became known instead by English settlers as New Haven. Like its earliest moniker, only traces remain of the artifacts and histories of the city’s first people, the Quinnipiac. (more…)

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This Week in New Haven (October 4 – 10)

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Experimental jazz fills more than one indoor space while outdoor harbingers of Halloween benefit from eerily pleasant weather. (more…)

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House of Repute

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A few blocks from the Guilford Town Green, stately houses line quiet streets. Most have wide, sprawling lawns. Some have barns behind them, long since converted into garages or sheds. Many are quite old, from the Victorian era or (more…)

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Trail Spin

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Every now and then, geographically diminutive Connecticut manages to outdistance the country. We’ll be doing that this weekend when (more…)

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Clear Head

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The 60.8-mile Mattabesett Trail takes a circuitous route from Middletown to Berlin—just eight miles as the crow flies. (more…)

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Inner Circles

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What happens when you walk a labyrinth? “Sometimes, nothing!” Bill Ludwig says with a laugh.  (more…)

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This Week in New Haven (December 2 – 8)

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Parties, arts and a party for the arts set the holiday season alight.  (more…)

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