A ride on the railroad is typically about where you go from there. (more…)
Checking It Out
When I woke up at the Hotel Marcel and pressed the Morning button on the bedside console, the blackout shade rolled steadily up to reveal the (more…)
Checking In
The building that is now the Hotel Marcel has been a monumental vision to New Haven passersby since it was erected in 1969. (more…)
Carried Over
A carriage once drawn by four horses now stands in the carriage shed at the New Haven Museum’s Pardee-Morris House, a symbol of New Haven’s industrial past nestled within a symbol of its colonial history. (more…)
Another Elm City
While he was the president of Yale College in the early 1800s, the theologian, writer and horticulturist Timothy Dwight did a lot of traveling, wherever horse and cart might take him. One of his favorite destinations (more…)
Specifically General
Just a few short months after deciding that Westville could really use a general store, Alex Dakoulas opened one (more…)
Piecing Together
Two mosaic peacocks perch on a table at Mediterranean restaurant Rawa. The image is exquisite in the manner of peacocks, but particularly in the manner of mosaics. Each detail, each transition of color, in the life-sized tail feathers is rendered with a piece of stone no larger than a thumbnail, shaped and positioned by hand. […]
Family Meals
El Salvadoreño occupies the first floor of a multi-family house on Campbell Avenue in West Haven, its frontage transformed by a commercial brick buildout. The surrounding stretch of state road is dominated by convenience stores, repair shops, institutional campuses and a general determination on the part of southbound commuters, freshly addled by cascading merges, to […]