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Country Home

Country Home

Miller, Mississippi begins with a ghost story. The three Miller children, white Mississippians, gather in sister Becky’s bedroom to listen to their black maid, Doris, tell it. There’s a “crying...

Country Home

Miller, Mississippi begins with a ghost story. The three Miller children, white Mississippians, gather in sister Becky’s bedroom to listen to their black maid, Doris, tell it. There’s a “crying...

For a Song (or Two)

For a Song (or Two)

You have to be brave to get up in front of a crowd and sing, but every week ordinary New Haveners do just that—often, admittedly, emboldened by liquid courage. Karaoke...

For a Song (or Two)

You have to be brave to get up in front of a crowd and sing, but every week ordinary New Haveners do just that—often, admittedly, emboldened by liquid courage. Karaoke...

Place Yourself

Place Yourself

The cover of Connecticut Architecture: Stories of 100 Places makes an argument right up front: that Connecticut’s architecture is more than just Colonial homesteads and picturesque lighthouses. Residents already know...

Place Yourself

The cover of Connecticut Architecture: Stories of 100 Places makes an argument right up front: that Connecticut’s architecture is more than just Colonial homesteads and picturesque lighthouses. Residents already know...

K. H. Chapin Fine Violins

Behind the Music

Kevin Chapin makes his living shaping slabs of spruce and maple into beautiful forms. But Chapin isn’t a sculptor, exactly; he’s a luthier, and the rough piece of spruce that...

Behind the Music

Kevin Chapin makes his living shaping slabs of spruce and maple into beautiful forms. But Chapin isn’t a sculptor, exactly; he’s a luthier, and the rough piece of spruce that...

Moving Forward

Moving Forward

Sunlight is streaming across the hardwood floor of an activity room at Trinity Episcopal Church on the Branford Green. Laura Richling drags a few tables out of the way. Her...

Moving Forward

Sunlight is streaming across the hardwood floor of an activity room at Trinity Episcopal Church on the Branford Green. Laura Richling drags a few tables out of the way. Her...

Conscience by Alice Mattison

Truth in Fiction

The arc of a novel is the thing that compels the reader to keep reading and resolves (or doesn’t) at the end. The arc of New Havener Alice Mattison’s new...

Truth in Fiction

The arc of a novel is the thing that compels the reader to keep reading and resolves (or doesn’t) at the end. The arc of New Havener Alice Mattison’s new...