I’m as likely to indulge in “golden age thinking” as any mortal, and I admit, I’ve always harbored a desire to time-travel to the early days of the New Haven Colony. (more…)
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Student Aid
Roughly one of every seven Americans—44 million people—are going hungry some of the time, the nonprofit food assistance network Feeding America estimates. According to Best Colleges, college students are particularly hard-hit, with a food insecurity rate of 23 percent in 2020. In a recent internal student survey conducted by CT State Community College Gateway—better known […]
Everything and More
Abstract art had never been my favorite. I’d always found it somewhat aloof, as if the artists were trying to keep some distance between me and their ideas. So the prospect of reviewing A Way to See Everything and Nothing, an abstraction-oriented exhibition at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art (ECOCA) through January 14, didn’t […]
Toy Story
My mission seemed impossible: Find a novel Christmas gift that would delight and absorb my 6-year-old grandnephew (more…)
’Field Goals
Whenever I visit Litchfield (map), the county seat of Northwestern Connecticut, I think of the Kinks song “Village Green Preservation Society,” especially the lines, “Preserving the old ways from being abused/Protecting the new ways for me and for you/What more can we do?” It’s clearly a town that’s in love with both historical tradition and […]
Good Questions
Jimmy Smits. [Bleep]ing JIMMY SMITS! I knew it, of course, just not in time to answer the question, “What actor replaced David Caruso after he left the cast of NYPD Blue?” Such is the fun and frustration of Trivia Night with Big Boy Trivia & Games, hosted by emcee and company owner Craig Ventura and […]
Cool Fusion
Blink and you’ll probably miss Seymour’s Agave Diner, but only if you’re an out-of-towner. Seymour residents have been frequenting this prefab charmer at Route 67 and Columbus Street, skirted to the west by an elevated Route 8, since 1951, when it was known as Nash’s. Thirty-five years later it became a beloved breakfast spot, Tony’s—but […]
Brothers’ Keepers
If you asked me to name the most eccentric Connecticuters in history, the Boothe brothers of Stratford—David (1867-1949) and Stephen (1869-1948)—would get my nod. One story of many recounted in the 2015 history Red, White and Boothe is that these wealthy, philanthropic bon vivants would follow their frequent community fundraising dinners with a rousing game […]
Kids in the Hall
In his 1977 horror classic The Shining, novelist Stephen King explored the notion that the history of a building and its occupants—sometimes innocuous, other times unsettling or even malevolent—can become so ingrained in its brick and mortar that secrets hidden for generations will suddenly reveal themselves to individuals with enough psychic sensitivity to receive them. […]
Home Makers
Albert Hadley Jr. (1920-2012), interior designer to the prominent and powerful—Al Gore, Jackie Onassis, director Mike Nichols—once said, “Design is coming to grips with one’s real lifestyle, one’s real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for show but to nourish one’s well-being.” That sounds like a recipe for everyday facility; but, […]
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