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Love Language

Love Language

For two decades, Carol Ruggiero filled pages and pages with her thoughts and memories, evoking images of a bygone era, and now they fill Pearls from Carol, the blue-bound book...

Love Language

For two decades, Carol Ruggiero filled pages and pages with her thoughts and memories, evoking images of a bygone era, and now they fill Pearls from Carol, the blue-bound book...

The Note Book

The Note Book

Researching family history for the publication of her parents’ love letters was interesting and fun, Hamden author Jill Snyder says. It was also healing. While telling the story of her...

The Note Book

Researching family history for the publication of her parents’ love letters was interesting and fun, Hamden author Jill Snyder says. It was also healing. While telling the story of her...

Roll Call

Roll Call

No one has ever logged a perfect game of duckpin bowling, Sandi Thomas tells me. She’s owned Johnson’s Duckpin Lanes in Hamden since 1985, and she practically grew up in...

Roll Call

No one has ever logged a perfect game of duckpin bowling, Sandi Thomas tells me. She’s owned Johnson’s Duckpin Lanes in Hamden since 1985, and she practically grew up in...

Salvage Mission

Salvage Mission

As cofounder and board chair Lisa Spetrini guided me through the racks, bins, shelves, cubbies and jars of artsy, craftable salvage in North Haven’s EcoWorks—“Connecticut’s only Creative Reuse Center”—I thought...

Salvage Mission

As cofounder and board chair Lisa Spetrini guided me through the racks, bins, shelves, cubbies and jars of artsy, craftable salvage in North Haven’s EcoWorks—“Connecticut’s only Creative Reuse Center”—I thought...

Peace and Quiet

Peace and Quiet

“I find it interesting that some people say they don’t want to live near a cemetery,” says Dan Krueger, manager of Beaverdale Memorial Park. Cemeteries are places of beauty and...

Peace and Quiet

“I find it interesting that some people say they don’t want to live near a cemetery,” says Dan Krueger, manager of Beaverdale Memorial Park. Cemeteries are places of beauty and...

Mother Lode

Mother Lode

Mother’s Day is Sunday, and if you’re still considering where to go or what to give, this article’s for you. A family meal is usually at the heart of things,...

Mother Lode

Mother’s Day is Sunday, and if you’re still considering where to go or what to give, this article’s for you. A family meal is usually at the heart of things,...