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Amistad Memorial

Writing the Ship

Years ago, Connecticut Congressman Joe Courtney caught a big blunder in Lincoln, Steven Spielberg’s big film biography of Abraham Lincoln. One scene shows states voting to ratify the amendment abolishing...

Writing the Ship

Years ago, Connecticut Congressman Joe Courtney caught a big blunder in Lincoln, Steven Spielberg’s big film biography of Abraham Lincoln. One scene shows states voting to ratify the amendment abolishing...

Roger Sherman portrait in New Haven City Hall

Sherman‘s March

The second level of City Hall has a chronological gallery of portraits featuring New Haven’s past mayors. Up the stairs directly ahead of the main entrance, it’s hard to miss....

Sherman‘s March

The second level of City Hall has a chronological gallery of portraits featuring New Haven’s past mayors. Up the stairs directly ahead of the main entrance, it’s hard to miss....

Pirelli Tire Building

Concrete Plans

The Pirelli Tire Building looms long, color-shifting from tan to gray depending on the weather and time of day and your vantage point, with rows of windows at even intervals...

Concrete Plans

The Pirelli Tire Building looms long, color-shifting from tan to gray depending on the weather and time of day and your vantage point, with rows of windows at even intervals...

Storm Chasers

Storm Chasers

Like the movie, Juno the storm (a.k.a. Colbie) ended up delivering a more wholesome message than observers predicted. Powdery, wispy and drifting around, snow ranged between 6” and 15” in...

Storm Chasers

Like the movie, Juno the storm (a.k.a. Colbie) ended up delivering a more wholesome message than observers predicted. Powdery, wispy and drifting around, snow ranged between 6” and 15” in...

Odd-Makers

Odd-Makers

The “Keep [city name] Weird” movement began in Austin, TX, to celebrate the city’s independent, one-of-a-kind businesses. From there it’s spread to cities and towns coast to coast, becoming a...

Odd-Makers

The “Keep [city name] Weird” movement began in Austin, TX, to celebrate the city’s independent, one-of-a-kind businesses. From there it’s spread to cities and towns coast to coast, becoming a...

Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven

The Rest is Grave-y

Evergreen Cemetery’s 85 sprawling acres provide the final resting spots to over 85,000 individuals, including an array of New Haven’s passed-away notables: politicians, military greats and one Mary Hart, the...

The Rest is Grave-y

Evergreen Cemetery’s 85 sprawling acres provide the final resting spots to over 85,000 individuals, including an array of New Haven’s passed-away notables: politicians, military greats and one Mary Hart, the...