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Common Cold
They say the one constant is change, but something that hasn’t changed in a long while is our annual preoccupation with the common cold. …
Hole Story
Yesterday, the nation celebrated a major icon on his day of remembrance—and, understandably, forgot about another. But we here in New Haven have special reason to acknowledge National Bagel Day: the local family that almost singlehandedly made the ring-shaped breadstuff …
Record Books
New Haven opened the book on college yearbooks in America. The still-going Yale Banner has in the past pointed to its…
Ghosts of Christmases Past
The days before Christmas in New Haven are a good time to ponder how New Haven Christmases were before. …
Court Dates
I’m as likely to indulge in “golden age thinking” as any mortal, and I admit, I’ve always harbored a desire to time-travel to the early days of the New Haven Colony. …
Stone Turned
It was 1822. The population of the United States had just crossed 10 million. James Monroe was in his second term as president, having won all but a single electoral vote. In New Haven, cattle-grazing had been banished from the …
Water Towers
Along the eastern reaches of the Long Island Sound is a constellation of lighthouses dating mostly to the 19th century. Built in places where shipwrecks were frequent, they’re a testament to…
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