Tag Archives: Cheshire

Early Risers

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If you’re a New Havener hoping to catch a good selection at Shef’s, you’d better set your alarm clock. This Cheshire bagelry opens at 6 a.m. most weekdays and 7 a.m. on weekends, and business is known to get …

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Big Drink

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Though the Manhattan has been a bar staple for well over a century, its origins remain cloudy. One popular legend is that it was invented in the 1870s at New York City’s Manhattan Club for a party hosted by Jennie …

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Character Buildings

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If you’re a pop culture fanatic, the Barker Character, Comic and Cartoon Museum in Cheshire could be your Mecca. Think of any fictional (and many real-life) characters you’ve ever loved—Mickey Mouse, Popeye, Darth Vader, Betty Boop, SpongeBob, Superman, the Peanuts

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Made to Measure

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“There is a lure about milestoning, similar to that of fishing,” wrote Henry P. Sage in his essay “Ye Mylestones of Connecticut,” published by the New Haven Colony Historical Society in 1951. “One never knows just what he will find. …

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Christmas Presented

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“Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that,” begins Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, published in 1843. There is also no doubt whatever that, in 2022, this “ghostly little book,” as the author called …

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All for Nothing

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Can’t wait for Hamden’s Spring Glen One-Day Free Giveaway tomorrow? Check out all this great local stuff reportedly being given away today…

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This Week in New Haven (June 20 – 26)

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Festivals, special occasions and cuddly goats start summer off right. …

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Foot Falls

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If you want to see Connecticut’s highest waterfall, you can drive an hour and a half to Kent Falls State Park. Hopefully, the parking lot won’t be full, and you can picnic at the base of the falls. On weekends, …

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Made to Measure

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From a city quieted by COVID-19, here’s a tale of some not so desperate measures.

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Household Name

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Experience a different kind of cabin fever with this story from 2017.

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