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Raising Hale

Raising Hale

On the morning of May 10, 2017, Fort Nathan Hale Park was abuzz with preparation ahead of its season-opening celebration a few days later. At the northern end, a small...

Raising Hale

On the morning of May 10, 2017, Fort Nathan Hale Park was abuzz with preparation ahead of its season-opening celebration a few days later. At the northern end, a small...

Thick Skin

Thick Skin

Between 1852 and 1889, a man dressed in a quilt of leather patches paced back and forth between the Connecticut River and the Hudson. He spoke broken English and fluent...

Thick Skin

Between 1852 and 1889, a man dressed in a quilt of leather patches paced back and forth between the Connecticut River and the Hudson. He spoke broken English and fluent...

City Planner

City Planner

Googling “George Dudley Seymour” may lead you to George Dudley Seymour State Park in Haddam, a popular spot for hiking and birding on the banks of the Connecticut River. But...

City Planner

Googling “George Dudley Seymour” may lead you to George Dudley Seymour State Park in Haddam, a popular spot for hiking and birding on the banks of the Connecticut River. But...

Keepers

Keepers

In its first year, spanning 1862 and 1863, the New Haven Colony Historical Society, now known as the New Haven Museum, received some dubious gifts—“59 curiosities and relics,” to be...

Keepers

In its first year, spanning 1862 and 1863, the New Haven Colony Historical Society, now known as the New Haven Museum, received some dubious gifts—“59 curiosities and relics,” to be...

Read All About It

Read All About It

It’s the last remaining “legacy” newspaper in the Elm City, the only one with an edition still published by pressing news ink to paper. It’s the New Haven Register, and,...

Read All About It

It’s the last remaining “legacy” newspaper in the Elm City, the only one with an edition still published by pressing news ink to paper. It’s the New Haven Register, and,...

Writing Home

Writing Home

Donald Hall’s childhood home stands at the corner of Ardmore and Greenway Streets in Hamden’s Spring Glen neighborhood—as he described it, “a small, dark, well-constructed, mock-Tudor house.” That house was...

Writing Home

Donald Hall’s childhood home stands at the corner of Ardmore and Greenway Streets in Hamden’s Spring Glen neighborhood—as he described it, “a small, dark, well-constructed, mock-Tudor house.” That house was...