The days are invitingly long this time of year, which means these are the year’s most inviting nights.
Postcard publishers more than a century ago knew that. Of the five rare nighttime scenes in Daily Nutmeg’s vintage postcard collection, four present the city in the year’s warmest months. Only one shows it otherwise, a dusky, chilly puce blushing behind spindly barren trees.
It’s beautiful, in its own way. But it can’t beat summer nights.
Written by Dan Mims.
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Appropriate to its exclusively breakfast and brunch menu, The Corner Restaurant in downtown Milford is a place you might feel comfortable entering in robe and slippers. Antiquey cupboards and bookcases...
Appropriate to its exclusively breakfast and brunch menu, The Corner Restaurant in downtown Milford is a place you might feel comfortable entering in robe and slippers. Antiquey cupboards and bookcases...
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The sun will set at 4:27 p.m. in New Haven on Sunday. It’s the date of the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, though it doesn’t have the...
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Hugged by scaffolding and sea green mesh, the Elizabethan-style home of the Ely Center of Contemporary Art, lately New Haven’s liveliest visual arts space, looks like a skeletal body wrapped in...
It’s the most wonderful time of the year—so it’s time again to wonder over some new New Haven riddles. Solving this Christmas list of holiday head-scratchers will test your knowledge...
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A morning rain has cleared, and the trail up West Rock is slick as I follow Yale geologist David Evans to the top. We’re in search of evidence of the...
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