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Brown Bearing
Once you know about it, you see it everywhere. It’s in the foundations along Hillhouse Avenue, the facade of City Hall and the walls of Grove Street Cemetery. Its name...
Brown Bearing
Once you know about it, you see it everywhere. It’s in the foundations along Hillhouse Avenue, the facade of City Hall and the walls of Grove Street Cemetery. Its name...
Medical History
In March of 1942, Anne Miller lay dying at New Haven Hospital. A nursing school graduate married to Yale’s athletic director, Miller was suffering from streptococcal septicemia, a common and...
Medical History
In March of 1942, Anne Miller lay dying at New Haven Hospital. A nursing school graduate married to Yale’s athletic director, Miller was suffering from streptococcal septicemia, a common and...
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...
Civil Action
The corner of Edgewood Avenue and Garden Street near Amistad Academy Middle School has an extra green street sign. It identifies the spot as Constance B. Motley Corner, which rests...
Civil Action
The corner of Edgewood Avenue and Garden Street near Amistad Academy Middle School has an extra green street sign. It identifies the spot as Constance B. Motley Corner, which rests...
Bits and Pieces
One of the most valuable collections at the New Haven Museum’s Whitney Library isn’t a set of rare manuscripts or first editions. It’s a series of scrapbooks. They comprise the...
Bits and Pieces
One of the most valuable collections at the New Haven Museum’s Whitney Library isn’t a set of rare manuscripts or first editions. It’s a series of scrapbooks. They comprise the...
House and Home
Despite the fact that New Haven is one of the oldest cities in America, it doesn’t have many ghosts. There are colonial-era graveyards and old mansions galore, but its spectral...
House and Home
Despite the fact that New Haven is one of the oldest cities in America, it doesn’t have many ghosts. There are colonial-era graveyards and old mansions galore, but its spectral...