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29th Colored Regiment Monument in New Haven

Of This Land

The Connecticut State Seal has three cultivated grape vines on it, each one holding a trio of juicy purple bunches. “Why grape vines?” you ask, over all the native flora...

Of This Land

The Connecticut State Seal has three cultivated grape vines on it, each one holding a trio of juicy purple bunches. “Why grape vines?” you ask, over all the native flora...

A decorative pennyfarthing outside The Devil’s Gear Bike Shop in New Haven

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...

The Leatherman

Thick Skin

Between 1852 and 1889, a strange man dressed in a quilt of leather patches paced back and forth between the Connecticut River and the Hudson. He spoke broken English and...

Thick Skin

Between 1852 and 1889, a strange man dressed in a quilt of leather patches paced back and forth between the Connecticut River and the Hudson. He spoke broken English and...

Greener Pastures

Greener Pastures

Known for its green color, black licorice taste and supposed hallucinogenic properties, absinthe goes by many clashing names. Is it the green fairy, or the green fiend? The green muse,...

Greener Pastures

Known for its green color, black licorice taste and supposed hallucinogenic properties, absinthe goes by many clashing names. Is it the green fairy, or the green fiend? The green muse,...

April Fools Vista

Prank Recalling

April Fools’ Day is a surprisingly old holiday, even in Puritan-blooded New Haven. Under the headline “April Fools,” a writer in the April 4, 1811, edition of the Connecticut Journal,...

Prank Recalling

April Fools’ Day is a surprisingly old holiday, even in Puritan-blooded New Haven. Under the headline “April Fools,” a writer in the April 4, 1811, edition of the Connecticut Journal,...

Long Wharf circa 1868

Pier Review

The grinding, screeching, honking orchestra of an estimated 140,000 cars per day crosses over the old skeleton of Long Wharf, New Haven’s oldest pier. This remnant of the city’s economic...

Pier Review

The grinding, screeching, honking orchestra of an estimated 140,000 cars per day crosses over the old skeleton of Long Wharf, New Haven’s oldest pier. This remnant of the city’s economic...