If you know Jonathan Edwards at all, it’s probably because of his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” A staple of American literature textbooks, it includes lines like this one:
If God should only withdraw his hand …
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Course of Events
When the Beach Boys played, there was “no point in sitting down, except perhaps to keep from fainting,” recalls Sarah Heath of Hamden. Her friend Michael Ross, who grew up in North Haven, witnessed many a bloody hockey game when …
Memory Serves
About 450 years ago somewhere in Eastern Europe, perhaps in Poland, an unknown scribe wrote on sheepskin parchment the Hebrew text of the Torah. …
Made to Measure
“There is a lure about milestoning, similar to that of fishing,” wrote Henry P. Sage…
Oral History
Emeline Roberts Jones didn’t intend to become the first American woman to practice dentistry. …
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…
Signage of the Times
A photo essay. To view all 18 images, check out the email version.
All around New Haven, there are signs of the past…
A Moon’s World
Tomorrow, on January 31, 2018, the moon will be a trio of rare things made much rarer for coinciding…
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