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Singing Their Hearts Out

Singing Their Hearts Out

When browsing an early edition of America’s first college songbook (as you do), you may start to imagine an academic environment governed by the metaphysics of musical theater, where spontaneously...

Singing Their Hearts Out

When browsing an early edition of America’s first college songbook (as you do), you may start to imagine an academic environment governed by the metaphysics of musical theater, where spontaneously...

Magic Bond

Magic Bond

Ten years ago, magician Nelson Nicholson guided me through his Orange estate. The puzzle box of a home, the result of 13 separate additions, was filled with artifacts from the...

Magic Bond

Ten years ago, magician Nelson Nicholson guided me through his Orange estate. The puzzle box of a home, the result of 13 separate additions, was filled with artifacts from the...

Neighboring

Neighboring

Home to a historic village, a public library, old factory buildings, art studios and galleries, restaurants and shops, Edgewood Park, Hopkins School, the Yale Bowl, the Yale Golf Course and...

Neighboring

Home to a historic village, a public library, old factory buildings, art studios and galleries, restaurants and shops, Edgewood Park, Hopkins School, the Yale Bowl, the Yale Golf Course and...

Birdsey Views

Birdsey Views

Lake Place, one of the city’s shortest roads, gets one of the shortest entries in Doris B. Townshend’s 1998 edition of The Streets of New Haven: “First in 1870-1871 Directory…...

Birdsey Views

Lake Place, one of the city’s shortest roads, gets one of the shortest entries in Doris B. Townshend’s 1998 edition of The Streets of New Haven: “First in 1870-1871 Directory…...

Camp Ground

Camp Ground

It’s hard to imagine the game of football without yard lines and fourth downs and organized teams of 11. But before New Havener Walter Camp, the sport was missing all...

Camp Ground

It’s hard to imagine the game of football without yard lines and fourth downs and organized teams of 11. But before New Havener Walter Camp, the sport was missing all...

Smoke Signals

Smoke Signals

The air is spiced with smoke inside The Owl Shop, where patrons are puffing on their favorite cigars. It’s a vestige of an earlier New Haven, where cigar-making was a...

Smoke Signals

The air is spiced with smoke inside The Owl Shop, where patrons are puffing on their favorite cigars. It’s a vestige of an earlier New Haven, where cigar-making was a...