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The Dudley Farm Museum

Family Farm

Like history itself, The Dudley Farm Museum is a work in progress. The 1844 homestead, located on Durham Road in Guilford, was the residence of generations of Dudleys—an old Guilford...

Family Farm

Like history itself, The Dudley Farm Museum is a work in progress. The 1844 homestead, located on Durham Road in Guilford, was the residence of generations of Dudleys—an old Guilford...

New Haven Arena in 1934 (depicted image held by the New Haven Museum)

Course of Events

When the Beach Boys played, there was “no point in sitting down, except perhaps to keep from fainting,” recalls Sarah Heath of Hamden. Her friend Michael Ross, who grew up...

Course of Events

When the Beach Boys played, there was “no point in sitting down, except perhaps to keep from fainting,” recalls Sarah Heath of Hamden. Her friend Michael Ross, who grew up...

Rabbi Brockman at Mishkan Israel

Memory Serves

About 450 years ago somewhere in Eastern Europe, perhaps in Poland, an unknown scribe wrote on sheepskin parchment the Hebrew text of the Torah. When he was finished, each page...

Memory Serves

About 450 years ago somewhere in Eastern Europe, perhaps in Poland, an unknown scribe wrote on sheepskin parchment the Hebrew text of the Torah. When he was finished, each page...

Made to Measure

Made to Measure

“There is a lure about milestoning, similar to that of fishing,” wrote Henry P. Sage in his essay “Ye Mylestones of Connecticut,” published by the New Haven Colony Historical Society...

Made to Measure

“There is a lure about milestoning, similar to that of fishing,” wrote Henry P. Sage in his essay “Ye Mylestones of Connecticut,” published by the New Haven Colony Historical Society...

Beaver Hills, New Haven

Suburban Planning

Beaver Hills is on a hill, though you won’t find any actual beavers. This New Haven neighborhood of wide, tree-lined streets and roomy houses with plenty of charm is a...

Suburban Planning

Beaver Hills is on a hill, though you won’t find any actual beavers. This New Haven neighborhood of wide, tree-lined streets and roomy houses with plenty of charm is a...

Emeline Robert Jones

Oral History

Emeline Roberts Jones didn’t intend to become the first American woman to practice dentistry. Such an idea would have been preposterous in 1854. But her marriage that year to Daniel...

Oral History

Emeline Roberts Jones didn’t intend to become the first American woman to practice dentistry. Such an idea would have been preposterous in 1854. But her marriage that year to Daniel...