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Bits and Pieces
One of the most valuable collections at the New Haven Museum’s Whitney Library isn’t a set of rare manuscripts or first editions. It’s a series of scrapbooks. They comprise the...
Bits and Pieces
One of the most valuable collections at the New Haven Museum’s Whitney Library isn’t a set of rare manuscripts or first editions. It’s a series of scrapbooks. They comprise the...
House and Home
Despite the fact that New Haven is one of the oldest cities in America, it doesn’t have many ghosts. There are colonial-era graveyards and old mansions galore, but its spectral...
House and Home
Despite the fact that New Haven is one of the oldest cities in America, it doesn’t have many ghosts. There are colonial-era graveyards and old mansions galore, but its spectral...
Arms‘ Reach
In the 1870s, an offshoot of New Haven’s Canal Street was renamed to honor the sprawling new factory that’d been built there. The complex was one of the biggest in...
Arms‘ Reach
In the 1870s, an offshoot of New Haven’s Canal Street was renamed to honor the sprawling new factory that’d been built there. The complex was one of the biggest in...
Twists and Turns
When you hear the satisfying pop of a cork this New Year’s, you might think of 19th-century entrepreneur Philos Blake. A nephew of Eli Whitney, he’s the man New Haveners...
Twists and Turns
When you hear the satisfying pop of a cork this New Year’s, you might think of 19th-century entrepreneur Philos Blake. A nephew of Eli Whitney, he’s the man New Haveners...
Gone Bust
It’s easy to miss the empty pedestal near the summit of East Rock. Situated on a patch of grass where Farnam Drive meets its first overlook and turns toward the...
Gone Bust
It’s easy to miss the empty pedestal near the summit of East Rock. Situated on a patch of grass where Farnam Drive meets its first overlook and turns toward the...
Beneath the Bridge
Hidden below the entry lanes that become the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge—a.k.a. the Q—a tiny park memorializes the 18 Connecticut men who died in the surprise Japanese attack on that...
Beneath the Bridge
Hidden below the entry lanes that become the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge—a.k.a. the Q—a tiny park memorializes the 18 Connecticut men who died in the surprise Japanese attack on that...