The tour of Rob Greenberg’s private, maverick, singular, endlessly intriguing personal museum of New Haven history begins big and distant and gets progressively more detailed and more lovingly local. Greenberg spent much of his career in New York, so he …
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Starring Roles
Next time you’re strolling through New Haven’s Ninth Square district, look down.
You’ve probably walked by, or on, them before: 21 granite stars embedded in the sidewalks of Orange and Crown Streets. There’s one memorializing…
Writing the Ship
Earlier this month, Connecticut Congressman Joe Courtney caught a big blunder in the new film biography of Abraham Lincoln. One scene shows states voting to ratify the amendment abolishing slavery, with Courtney’s 19th-century…
Joined at the Hip Hop
Hashim Allah saw New Haven’s history of Hip Hop as it happened.
Allah did some DJ-ing, rapped a bit, wrote rhymes for others. But mostly he was just around. “I…
A-Sides
Plug in and turn up the amps. Here, vaguely chronologically, are the top 20 bands who shaped the sound of New Haven and have maintained the city’s image as the most creative original-music scene in Connecticut.
We set the hi-fi …
A Breath of Fresh Air
When you attend this evening’s monthly On9 celebration in Ninth Square, think about what was “On9” 70 or 100 years ago. Some markets were there, sure, and even some theaters; but mostly factories.
Today, Ninth Square is a land of …
Good Old Bill
While New Haven has been home to many who have gone on to do great things, few are more accomplished than 27th President of the United States and 10th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court William Howard Taft.
Taft’s personal …
Missed Connection
Ironically, it’s hard to see the Vision Trail—where it begins, where it ends, and what exactly it means.
If it weren’t for a vintage street sign on Water Street across from High School in the Community…
A Revolutionary Spark
Before he was the dictionary definition of “traitor,” Benedict Arnold was a headstrong patriot, a much-admired war hero. As a New Haven businessman in the 1760s, Arnold bristled against the British tax laws, and in 1775 he personally hastened Connecticut’s …
A People’s Museum
Margaret Anne Tockarshewsky’s desk is covered with her History homework. She’s been on the job as Executive Director of the New Haven Museum (formerly the New Haven Historical Society) since Feb. 1 and knows full well that this is a …
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