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Ahead of Time

Ahead of Time

He was born in 1799. He made civil rights history. And he tried to make more. Most antebellum New Haveners prided themselves on pursuing their fortunes without resorting to the...

Ahead of Time

He was born in 1799. He made civil rights history. And he tried to make more. Most antebellum New Haveners prided themselves on pursuing their fortunes without resorting to the...

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...

Her Way

Her Way

It begins at Crescent Street in Beaver Hills. It crosses Whalley and Edgewood, Chapel and Derby, where it runs under the colorful bridge of Barnard Environmental Magnet School. It hugs...

Her Way

It begins at Crescent Street in Beaver Hills. It crosses Whalley and Edgewood, Chapel and Derby, where it runs under the colorful bridge of Barnard Environmental Magnet School. It hugs...

Ghosts of Christmas Past

Ghosts of Christmas Past

The day before Christmas in New Haven is a good day to ponder how New Haven Christmases were before. It seems the explicit moral values of the season weren’t so...

Ghosts of Christmas Past

The day before Christmas in New Haven is a good day to ponder how New Haven Christmases were before. It seems the explicit moral values of the season weren’t so...

Old Flame

Old Flame

“Don’t burn the candle at both ends,” people started telling each other in the 1700s. Back then, it was a more literal warning not to squander precious resources, conceived at...

Old Flame

“Don’t burn the candle at both ends,” people started telling each other in the 1700s. Back then, it was a more literal warning not to squander precious resources, conceived at...

Déjà Flu

Déjà Flu

The last time New Haven saw a pandemic Christmas, more than 350,000 people had already died nationwide of influenza type A subtype H1N1, better known as the “Spanish Flu.” Yet...

Déjà Flu

The last time New Haven saw a pandemic Christmas, more than 350,000 people had already died nationwide of influenza type A subtype H1N1, better known as the “Spanish Flu.” Yet...