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Ship Sailed

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The season of crisp air, changing leaves, apple orchards and pumpkin patches is also the season of ghosts and their stories. Interestingly, New Haven’s most famous ghost story features an apparition that brought closure, not terror. The early days of the New Haven Colony were difficult, to put it mildly. The Puritan settlers had dreamed […]

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Object Permanence

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Organized by Puritan settlers in 1639, Center Church on the Green is New Haven’s founding congregation. It served as the city’s established, tax-funded church until disestablishment came to Connecticut in 1818—not long after its current building, designed after St Martin-in-the-Fields by celebrated local architect Ithiel Town, was completed in 1814. Also known as the First […]

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