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Love Language

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For two decades, Carol Ruggiero filled pages and pages with her thoughts and memories, evoking images of a bygone era, and now they fill Pearls from Carol, the blue-bound book her husband, Albert, devotedly assembled, published and promotes. …

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The Note Book

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Researching family history for the publication of her parents’ love letters was interesting and fun, Hamden author Jill Snyder says. It was also healing. …

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Roll Call

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No one has ever logged a perfect game of duckpin bowling, Sandi Thomas tells me. …

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Salvage Mission

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As cofounder and board chair Lisa Spetrini guided me through the racks, bins, shelves, cubbies and jars of artsy, craftable salvage in North Haven’s EcoWorks—“Connecticut’s only Creative Reuse Center”—I thought of all the creative people I know and wondered, …

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Peace and Quiet

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“I find it interesting that some people say they don’t want to live near a cemetery,” says Dan Krueger, manager of Beaverdale Memorial Park. …

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Mother Lode

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Mother’s Day is Sunday, and if you’re still considering where to go or what to give, this article’s for you. …

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Pitching Camp

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Temperatures are rising, days are getting longer and local parents who haven’t yet registered their children for summer camp might be feeling the heat. …

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Dream House

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Near sunset on a weekday afternoon, drive up or down Dixwell Avenue for an uplifting sight…

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Thick Ice

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We stepped onto the ice with some trepidation, my daughter and I. …

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Hire Gear

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As Bill Brown and Sally Hill prepared in 2020 to retire after 32 years of running the Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop, a hole opened that not just any peg could fill. A search for their replacement demonstrated the challenge …

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