As some Connecticut businesses slowly begin to reopen today, we’re thinking of this 2018 story about the slow struggle to open up one of the state’s most important assets. …
Tag Archives: Free the Beaches: The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America’s Most Exclusive Shoreline
This Week in New Haven (August 13 – 19)
Academic and personal histories texture a week in which Jazz Age meets Jazz Week and indulgence meets endurance.
Monday, August 13
“During the long, hot summers of the late 1960s and 1970s, one man began a campaign to open some …
Lines in the Sand
Connecticut has 253 miles of shoreline, but in the late 1960s only seven miles of it were accessible to the public. That rankled activist Ned Coll, and he set out to do something about it. …
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