Most of us who have welcomed a dog into our families, ideally via adoption, aren’t much concerned about the purity of their genetics. And yet, every non-pandemic February around America’s break rooms and water coolers, attention turns (more…)
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Holding Horses
Mary Santagata is a woman who, to paraphrase George Bernard Shaw by way of Robert Kennedy, dreams of things that never were and says, “Why not?” In 2010, Santagata opened All the King’s Horses Equine Rescue in Northford, a sort of halfway home for animals—horses, ponies, donkeys, even goats—whose owners have been forced to give […]
Stone Turned
It was 1822. The population of the United States had just crossed 10 million. James Monroe was in his second term as president, having won all but a single electoral vote. In New Haven, cattle-grazing had been banished from the Green, a (more…)