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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...

Flairing Up

Flairing Up

On Instagram feeds and Pinterest boards, a new old way of accessorizing is popular again. Pins and patches—colorful, often irreverent pieces of flair that were, until recently, considered passé and...

Flairing Up

On Instagram feeds and Pinterest boards, a new old way of accessorizing is popular again. Pins and patches—colorful, often irreverent pieces of flair that were, until recently, considered passé and...

Figuring it Out

Figuring it Out

In a cozy attic studio in Hamden, rainbow skeins of ribbon and bolts of patterned fabric are neatly arranged. On a workbench, a linen figure lies, her pink yarn hair...

Figuring it Out

In a cozy attic studio in Hamden, rainbow skeins of ribbon and bolts of patterned fabric are neatly arranged. On a workbench, a linen figure lies, her pink yarn hair...

Catherine Cazes-Wiley

Hats and Hands

“‘Tinaliah’ means ‘persevere,’” Catherine Cazes-Wiley says. “In many ways, it’s my story—how to survive as an artist… and not lose your identity. It’s been a real story, a real struggle.”...

Hats and Hands

“‘Tinaliah’ means ‘persevere,’” Catherine Cazes-Wiley says. “In many ways, it’s my story—how to survive as an artist… and not lose your identity. It’s been a real story, a real struggle.”...

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,...