About 450 years ago somewhere in Eastern Europe, perhaps in Poland, an unknown scribe wrote on sheepskin parchment the Hebrew text of the Torah. …
Tag Archives: Hamden
Made to Measure
“There is a lure about milestoning, similar to that of fishing,” wrote Henry P. Sage…
Home Team
A bell jingles on the door (push, don’t pull). The creaky, worn wooden floors and the odor of motor oil bring me back to the hardware store of my youth in another town. …
Bounty Hunting
Meaty red tomatoes that juice when you slice them, bulging green pods full of firm, sweet peas. They’re the stuff of dreams when the calendar says spring but the forecast says winter. …
Retaining Walls
“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,” begins Robert Frost’s oft-read poem “Mending Wall.” Frost is lamenting all the things that bring down his old stone walls, requiring…
Naturalization
The naturopathic physicians of Whole Health Natural Family Medicine are used to being misunderstood. …
Short and Sweet
Did you know that humans have been tapping sugar maples to make syrup for at least 8,000 years? Or that sap is 98% water? …
This Week in New Haven (February 19 – 25)
Reason, facts and data mingle with imagination, fiction and subjective experience this week in New Haven. …
Super Men
Watch the right highlight reel and you’ll see #33 on the Miami Dolphins plow through the Buffalo Bills defensive line. That’s running back and Hamden native Rich Diana, who …
Choosing Slides
Friday was a formidable day. Dervishes of powder whipped across the ground. Bare branches creaked like haunted house doors. The cold air burned. But the sun was out, and so were dozens of kids…
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