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Crossing the Lines

Crossing the Lines

Once upon a time, decades before wireless internet and smartphones and out-of-control digital surveillance by the federal government, phone lines were actual lines, and wiretapping meant tapping into real wires....

Crossing the Lines

Once upon a time, decades before wireless internet and smartphones and out-of-control digital surveillance by the federal government, phone lines were actual lines, and wiretapping meant tapping into real wires....

Backpedaling

Backpedaling

I want to ride my bicycle.I want to ride my bike.I want to ride my bicycle.I want to ride it where I like. —“Bicycle Race,” Queen, 1978 Released the year...

Backpedaling

I want to ride my bicycle.I want to ride my bike.I want to ride my bicycle.I want to ride it where I like. —“Bicycle Race,” Queen, 1978 Released the year...

Birthday Blowout

Birthday Blowout

To celebrate New Haven’s 387th birthday last week, we plunked some waxy riddles onto an early colonial history-themed cake and invited you to blow them out, with each of three...

Birthday Blowout

To celebrate New Haven’s 387th birthday last week, we plunked some waxy riddles onto an early colonial history-themed cake and invited you to blow them out, with each of three...

Iron Age

Iron Age

Like a mountain piled with strata, a city as old as New Haven is layered with the remains of its past. Sometimes a layer lies in plain view but goes...

Iron Age

Like a mountain piled with strata, a city as old as New Haven is layered with the remains of its past. Sometimes a layer lies in plain view but goes...

Many Happy Returns

Many Happy Returns

Today is New Haven’s 387th birthday: the anniversary of the day a Puritan settling party from England landed here by way of Boston to try their fortune in the wilderness....

Many Happy Returns

Today is New Haven’s 387th birthday: the anniversary of the day a Puritan settling party from England landed here by way of Boston to try their fortune in the wilderness....

Making a Name

Making a Name

There are other New Havens in the world, and at least one of them is even less new than ours. In his seminal history Three Centuries of New Haven (1953),...

Making a Name

There are other New Havens in the world, and at least one of them is even less new than ours. In his seminal history Three Centuries of New Haven (1953),...