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Fire and Ice

Fire and Ice

It takes an inner fire to go hiking in winter. Perhaps this blazing sunset over a freezing Lake Wintergreen will stoke it. Written by Dan Mims. Images 1-4, 6-9 and...

Fire and Ice

It takes an inner fire to go hiking in winter. Perhaps this blazing sunset over a freezing Lake Wintergreen will stoke it. Written by Dan Mims. Images 1-4, 6-9 and...

Free at Last

Free at Last

At the end of Life of William Grimes, The Runaway Slave, Grimes’s statement that “I have learned to read and write pretty well” is proven by the 30,000 words preceding...

Free at Last

At the end of Life of William Grimes, The Runaway Slave, Grimes’s statement that “I have learned to read and write pretty well” is proven by the 30,000 words preceding...

This Week in New Haven (January 13 - 19)

This Week in New Haven (January 13 - 19)

History, mystery and musical witchery get things going. Monday, January 13 At 6 p.m. at Branford’s Blackstone Library, “pirate historian” Luca Rebussini discusses “the history of the pirates and pirate...

This Week in New Haven (January 13 - 19)

History, mystery and musical witchery get things going. Monday, January 13 At 6 p.m. at Branford’s Blackstone Library, “pirate historian” Luca Rebussini discusses “the history of the pirates and pirate...

Where the Hearts Are

Where the Hearts Are

It’s been said the heart of the home is the kitchen. Here are some hard-beating kitchens now on the market that, depending on your own heart, may be hard to...

Where the Hearts Are

It’s been said the heart of the home is the kitchen. Here are some hard-beating kitchens now on the market that, depending on your own heart, may be hard to...

Past Life

Past Life

There’s an unbridgeable distance between a book about life and life itself. But the third edition of Life at Yale, a large alumni-produced pamphlet published in 1920 to “fairly” introduce...

Past Life

There’s an unbridgeable distance between a book about life and life itself. But the third edition of Life at Yale, a large alumni-produced pamphlet published in 1920 to “fairly” introduce...

A Day at the Beach

A Day at the Beach

I was expecting a bracing wind and frozen toes when I set out for a walk one morning. What I got was a day at the beach. The thermometer read...

A Day at the Beach

I was expecting a bracing wind and frozen toes when I set out for a walk one morning. What I got was a day at the beach. The thermometer read...