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Falling Out

Falling Out

While we may take autumn’s crimsons and golds for granted, hundreds of thousands of tourists are visiting Connecticut this time of year, many of them to view the pageant of...

Falling Out

While we may take autumn’s crimsons and golds for granted, hundreds of thousands of tourists are visiting Connecticut this time of year, many of them to view the pageant of...

West River Memorial Park - New Haven, CT

Supernatural

You’re alone in a marsh on the eve of Halloween, and it’s almost dark. You’d been driving down Ella T. Grasso Boulevard when a flurry of light agitated your eyes,...

Supernatural

You’re alone in a marsh on the eve of Halloween, and it’s almost dark. You’d been driving down Ella T. Grasso Boulevard when a flurry of light agitated your eyes,...

Evans on West Rock

On the Rocks

A morning rain has cleared, and the trail up West Rock is slick as I follow Yale geologist David Evans to the top. We’re in search of evidence of the...

On the Rocks

A morning rain has cleared, and the trail up West Rock is slick as I follow Yale geologist David Evans to the top. We’re in search of evidence of the...

East Rock Park

Long Range

What New Havener hasn’t been stunned on a sunny evening by the view of West Rock’s cliffs bathing Westville in their carmine light, or by East Rock’s sheer rosy face,...

Long Range

What New Havener hasn’t been stunned on a sunny evening by the view of West Rock’s cliffs bathing Westville in their carmine light, or by East Rock’s sheer rosy face,...

Crossing Paths

Crossing Paths

Most of the time, in order to cross the road, you have to be on the road. You wait for the traffic signal, look both ways, then, like Dustin Hoffman’s...

Crossing Paths

Most of the time, in order to cross the road, you have to be on the road. You wait for the traffic signal, look both ways, then, like Dustin Hoffman’s...

2015 New Haven Reads Spelling Bee

Spell Cast

Williwaw: “a sudden violent gust of cold land air common along mountainous coasts of high latitude” (Merriam-Webster). Maureen Armstrong wasn’t sure why, but she knew how to spell it, catapulting...

Spell Cast

Williwaw: “a sudden violent gust of cold land air common along mountainous coasts of high latitude” (Merriam-Webster). Maureen Armstrong wasn’t sure why, but she knew how to spell it, catapulting...