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Reinaldo Cruz

Chopping Wood

In his Edgewood backyard, Reinaldo Cruz is busy shearing a piece of wood with a heavy knife. The forearm-sized-and-dwindling piece of red elm begins to take the shape it’s destined...

Chopping Wood

In his Edgewood backyard, Reinaldo Cruz is busy shearing a piece of wood with a heavy knife. The forearm-sized-and-dwindling piece of red elm begins to take the shape it’s destined...

Lots in Store

Lots in Store

Jordan’s Furniture likes to go big. Its enormous sign, backed by a collage of actual chairs arranged like a tiled computer wallpaper, looms over new arrivals. To the right, another...

Lots in Store

Jordan’s Furniture likes to go big. Its enormous sign, backed by a collage of actual chairs arranged like a tiled computer wallpaper, looms over new arrivals. To the right, another...

Petalworking

Petalworking

Spring has come, and flowers are blooming. Yards and medians bob with daffodils, and the cherry blossom trees in Wooster Square are budding, promising petal showers any moment. Even during...

Petalworking

Spring has come, and flowers are blooming. Yards and medians bob with daffodils, and the cherry blossom trees in Wooster Square are budding, promising petal showers any moment. Even during...

Steve and Kate Melillo outside Americana Memories

Place of Pride

On the Americana Memories website, there’s a phone number to reach Steve Melillo for “pennant emergencies.” “It’s exactly what it sounds like,” Melillo says. For example, last month, early in...

Place of Pride

On the Americana Memories website, there’s a phone number to reach Steve Melillo for “pennant emergencies.” “It’s exactly what it sounds like,” Melillo says. For example, last month, early in...

Margaret Middleton

Semper Fi

In recognition of Veterans Day, we’re revisiting this lightly updated story from July 4, 2014. A huge number of military veterans return from war and find a different kind of...

Semper Fi

In recognition of Veterans Day, we’re revisiting this lightly updated story from July 4, 2014. A huge number of military veterans return from war and find a different kind of...

Julia Bogardus, Knit New Haven

Social Fabric

Knitting: a quiet pursuit for lonely moments, if ever there were one. But in the city of New Haven, no one need stitch alone. Since its doors opened in 2009,...

Social Fabric

Knitting: a quiet pursuit for lonely moments, if ever there were one. But in the city of New Haven, no one need stitch alone. Since its doors opened in 2009,...