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A Fighting Chance

A Fighting Chance

It was fight night in Dixwell. Last Saturday, organized by Elephant in the Room (EIR) Boxing Club, 12 pugilists from across the city and state gathered for the second annual...

A Fighting Chance

It was fight night in Dixwell. Last Saturday, organized by Elephant in the Room (EIR) Boxing Club, 12 pugilists from across the city and state gathered for the second annual...

EcoWorks

Garbage People

“Garbage can be fun.” So say the folks at EcoWorks, and the proof is in the salvaged wares they’ve packed into bins, baskets and boxes around the organization’s Creative Reuse...

Garbage People

“Garbage can be fun.” So say the folks at EcoWorks, and the proof is in the salvaged wares they’ve packed into bins, baskets and boxes around the organization’s Creative Reuse...

Crane Check

Crane Check

On a pizza slice of land between Canal, Prospect and Sachem Streets—with the first-bite tip pointing downtown, and the crusty points angling respectively up towards Dixwell and Yale’s Science Hill—tall...

Crane Check

On a pizza slice of land between Canal, Prospect and Sachem Streets—with the first-bite tip pointing downtown, and the crusty points angling respectively up towards Dixwell and Yale’s Science Hill—tall...

Grandfather clock at Thomas Darling House

Farm‘s Length

Rounding a bend in the Litchfield Turnpike, it’s easy to rush past the Thomas Darling House, a homestead stood still in time, blending easily into the pastoral backdrop of West...

Farm‘s Length

Rounding a bend in the Litchfield Turnpike, it’s easy to rush past the Thomas Darling House, a homestead stood still in time, blending easily into the pastoral backdrop of West...

Top Tree

Top Tree

“A Beech is, in almost any landscape where it appears, the finest tree to be seen.”—Donald Culross Peattie, A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America On...

Top Tree

“A Beech is, in almost any landscape where it appears, the finest tree to be seen.”—Donald Culross Peattie, A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America On...

Land Rover

Land Rover

When Lianne Audette was five, her father sailed her out onto the small lake near their New Jersey home, then jumped ship. Forced to sail back on her own, she...

Land Rover

When Lianne Audette was five, her father sailed her out onto the small lake near their New Jersey home, then jumped ship. Forced to sail back on her own, she...