Connecticut has its fair share of rail trails—converted train beds for hiking and biking. Trolley trails are less common, but that’s just what you get with Branford’s Trolley Trail, a (more…)
Tag Archives: Kathy Leonard Czepiel
A Day at the Beach
I was expecting a bracing wind and frozen toes when I set out for a walk one morning. What I got was a day at the beach. (more…)
Shedding Light
The sun will set at 4:25 p.m. in New Haven tomorrow. It’s the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, though it doesn’t have the earliest sunset. That already occurred on December 8, at 4:22 and change. (more…)
Down Under
What do Benedict Arnold’s first wife, Rutherford B. Hayes’s grandmother and James Hillhouse’s uncle have in common? (more…)
Sweetness and Light
“Classic rom-com” is the way Yale Repertory Theatre bills The Brightest Thing in the World, a commissioned world premiere by the playwright Leah Nanako Winkler. The play opens in a cheerful Lexington, Kentucky coffee shop called Revival, where a series of sweet, funny vignettes between Lane (Katherine Romans), the baker behind the counter, and Steph […]
Christmas Presented
“Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that,” begins Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, published in 1843. There is also no doubt whatever that, in 2022, this “ghostly little book,” as the author called it, has become a holiday staple of stage and screen. Perhaps the first record of a […]
Clear Head
The 60.8-mile Mattabesett Trail takes a circuitous route from Middletown to Berlin—just eight miles as the crow flies. (more…)
Voter Participation
Aristotle wrote that man is by nature a political animal, but getting involved in local politics may not come so naturally. (more…)
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