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Entertainment Center

Entertainment Center

Few buildings in New Haven have stirred more sentiment—positive or negative—than the New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Take, for example, the fact that 15 years after its demolition, a private...

Entertainment Center

Few buildings in New Haven have stirred more sentiment—positive or negative—than the New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Take, for example, the fact that 15 years after its demolition, a private...

Founding Mothers

Founding Mothers

Having led their flock to a shared new haven in 1638, the minister John Davenport and the merchant Theophilus Eaton are considered New Haven’s founding fathers. But the men, women...

Founding Mothers

Having led their flock to a shared new haven in 1638, the minister John Davenport and the merchant Theophilus Eaton are considered New Haven’s founding fathers. But the men, women...

Backpedaling

Backpedaling

I want to ride my bicycle. I want to ride my bike. I want to ride my bicycle. I want to ride it where I like. —“Bicycle Race” by Queen...

Backpedaling

I want to ride my bicycle. I want to ride my bike. I want to ride my bicycle. I want to ride it where I like. —“Bicycle Race” by Queen...

Supply and Demand

Supply and Demand

Today is Powder House Day in New Haven, but unless you already knew that, you wouldn’t know it. It was 247 years ago, on April 22, 1775—though some accounts have...

Supply and Demand

Today is Powder House Day in New Haven, but unless you already knew that, you wouldn’t know it. It was 247 years ago, on April 22, 1775—though some accounts have...

Hiding in Plain Sight

Hiding in Plain Sight

“I do not want it anywhere hidden,” Charles Strong wrote of Yale’s proposed memorial to alumni who died in the Civil War. “I want it out in the open.” Strong,...

Hiding in Plain Sight

“I do not want it anywhere hidden,” Charles Strong wrote of Yale’s proposed memorial to alumni who died in the Civil War. “I want it out in the open.” Strong,...

Another Elm City

Another Elm City

While he was the president of Yale College in the early 1800s, the theologian, writer and horticulturist Timothy Dwight did a lot of traveling, wherever horse and cart might take...

Another Elm City

While he was the president of Yale College in the early 1800s, the theologian, writer and horticulturist Timothy Dwight did a lot of traveling, wherever horse and cart might take...