If you doubt that a new year—or any time, really—is an opportunity for renewal and growth, look to Connecticut’s trees. …
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Of This Land
The Connecticut State Seal has three planted grape vines on it, each one bearing a trio of purple bunches. …
Uncapitalized
There’s a certain level of risk to being a state capital. If, despite your inherent advantages, another state city surpasses you in measures like population, economy or culture, it can lead to perpetual snubbing…
Of This Land
The Connecticut State Seal has three cultivated grape vines on it, each one holding a trio of juicy purple bunches.
“Why grape vines?” you ask, over all the native flora that might seem better suited for the honor. One answer …
Uncapitalized
There’s a certain level of risk to being a state capital. If, despite your inherent advantages, another state city surpasses you in measures like population, economy or culture, it can lead to perpetual snubbing…
In the Beginning
Before there was New Haven… before there was even New England… there was Roodeberg.
Doesn’t have much of a ring to it, really, but in 1614, “Roodeberg” was the given name of the land that would become…
Going Green: The Window Displays of Upper Chapel Street
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Window.
Window who?
Window they change the window displays on Upper Chapel?…
A Wild Semester of Shakespeare at Yale
In the words of Shakespeare, she’s a wow!
—Eddie Cantor, “If You Knew Susie”
Shakespeare at Yale began quietly in early January with a pair of events at the Yale Center for British Art. A small but provocative exhibition of …
The Penn is Mightier Than the Gore
“Speaking of radio, are these guys on the air? Is anyone on the air?”
“Not in Connecticut. ‘Cuz, um, they’re all dead. Seventy-five percent of Connecticut is syndicated, Ivan. You know that.”
— excerpt from DJZom-B & The Ungrateful Dead
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