Tag Archives: Grove Street Cemetery

Crushing It

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A print on a wall at the bottom of a staircase. An antique rifle racked behind glass. A…

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Trees of Knowledge

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The graves of loved ones and luminaries are enough to attract visitors to the Grove Street Cemetery. But this 18-acre oasis in the middle of the city has long held another appeal…

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Tireless

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Here was a man always frail, desperately poor, who through years of discouragement, elusive success and repeated failures, made, single-handed, one of the major industrial discoveries, and gave us a material which enters daily into the life of everyone.

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Down Under

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What do Benedict Arnold’s first wife, Rutherford B. Hayes’s grandmother and James Hillhouse’s uncle have in common? …

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Fall Back

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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
The Misunderstanding by Albert Camus

Not every New Haven leaf is a flower. Not yet. But there’s no missing that the…

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Happy Hunting

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New Haven is full of Easter eggs, and not just on Easter Sunday. …

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Brown Bearing

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Once you know about it, you see it everywhere. …

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Trees of Knowledge

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The graves of loved ones and luminaries are enough to attract visitors to the Grove Street Cemetery. But this 18-acre oasis in the middle of the city has long held another appeal…

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Lots and Lots

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Finding and claiming a piece of local history is like panning a river for gold, except, in the Information Age, you can do it from home while wearing your jammies. …

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Hallowed Ground

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Can you feel them? All Hallow’s Eve is upon us, and the dead are just beneath our feet.

New Haven is an old city, and there are bodies where we least expect them. In the East Shore section of town, …

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