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Rising in the East

Rising in the East

East Rock Park has been there our whole lifetimes, its tower a landmark to orient the traveler, its traprock cliffs changing color with the time of day. But until last...

Rising in the East

East Rock Park has been there our whole lifetimes, its tower a landmark to orient the traveler, its traprock cliffs changing color with the time of day. But until last...

Attention Surplus

Attention Surplus

Hamden resident John Thomas’s second-grade teacher was one of the first people who really “got” him. At a time before the diagnosis of ADHD existed, she let him stand up...

Attention Surplus

Hamden resident John Thomas’s second-grade teacher was one of the first people who really “got” him. At a time before the diagnosis of ADHD existed, she let him stand up...

Opening Up

Opening Up

Ephrat and Benny Lieblich had already signed a lease for their new Whalley Avenue restaurant, Ladle and Loaf, and gutted their space when suddenly, last March, everything shut down. Eventually,...

Opening Up

Ephrat and Benny Lieblich had already signed a lease for their new Whalley Avenue restaurant, Ladle and Loaf, and gutted their space when suddenly, last March, everything shut down. Eventually,...

Old Flame

Old Flame

“Don’t burn the candle at both ends,” people started telling each other in the 1700s. Back then, it was a more literal warning not to squander precious resources, conceived at...

Old Flame

“Don’t burn the candle at both ends,” people started telling each other in the 1700s. Back then, it was a more literal warning not to squander precious resources, conceived at...

Exterior Decorating

Exterior Decorating

Decorating houses for the holidays is one tradition that hasn’t changed this pandemic season. In Hamden, 28 homeowners and counting—other festive residents can add their houses to the list—are sharing...

Exterior Decorating

Decorating houses for the holidays is one tradition that hasn’t changed this pandemic season. In Hamden, 28 homeowners and counting—other festive residents can add their houses to the list—are sharing...

Retaining Walls

Retaining Walls

“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,” begins Robert Frost’s oft-read poem “Mending Wall.” Frost is lamenting all the things that bring down his old stone walls, requiring him...

Retaining Walls

“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,” begins Robert Frost’s oft-read poem “Mending Wall.” Frost is lamenting all the things that bring down his old stone walls, requiring him...