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Sticky Business

Sticky Business

A number of New Haven inventions have changed the course of history—the cotton gin, vulcanized rubber, the telephone exchange. Less impactful, but more joyful, is the Lolly Pop—or, as we...

Sticky Business

A number of New Haven inventions have changed the course of history—the cotton gin, vulcanized rubber, the telephone exchange. Less impactful, but more joyful, is the Lolly Pop—or, as we...

Horror Movie

Horror Movie

Almost 100 years to the day after its Hollywood premiere on October 30, 1921, The Sheik got a centenary Blu-ray. Cinephiles in general may remember the movie for cementing the...

Horror Movie

Almost 100 years to the day after its Hollywood premiere on October 30, 1921, The Sheik got a centenary Blu-ray. Cinephiles in general may remember the movie for cementing the...

Ship Sailed

Ship Sailed

The season of crisp air, changing leaves, apple orchards and pumpkin patches is also the season of ghosts and their stories. Interestingly, New Haven’s most famous ghost story features an...

Ship Sailed

The season of crisp air, changing leaves, apple orchards and pumpkin patches is also the season of ghosts and their stories. Interestingly, New Haven’s most famous ghost story features an...

Steady Progress

Steady Progress

“Steady Eddie” was his nickname, and his record shows why. Tennis player Eddie van Beverhoudt won the Greater New Haven City Open men’s singles title 18 times between 1949 and...

Steady Progress

“Steady Eddie” was his nickname, and his record shows why. Tennis player Eddie van Beverhoudt won the Greater New Haven City Open men’s singles title 18 times between 1949 and...

Something in the Water

Something in the Water

New Haven: the birthplace of the hamburger and, arguably, home to the finest pizza in America. But for centuries it was Crassotrea Virginica—the eastern oyster, a.k.a. the Atlantic oyster—that was...

Something in the Water

New Haven: the birthplace of the hamburger and, arguably, home to the finest pizza in America. But for centuries it was Crassotrea Virginica—the eastern oyster, a.k.a. the Atlantic oyster—that was...

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...