The eponymous lighthouse on Lighthouse Point hasn’t been lit since 1877. …
Tag Archives: history
Equal Terms
On January 29, 1864, a “large, well-formed and dignified man” stepped onto a “sort of rude balcony” at Grape Vine Point, where the Mill River meets the Quinnipiac. …
Smoke Signals
The air is spiced with smoke inside The Owl Shop, where patrons are puffing on their favorite cigars. It’s a vestige of an earlier New Haven, where…
Entertainment Center
Few buildings in New Haven have stirred more sentiment—positive or negative—than the New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum. …
Founding Mothers
Having led their flock to a shared new haven in 1638, the minister John Davenport and the merchant Theophilus Eaton are considered New Haven’s founding fathers. But the men, women and children who…
Backpedaling
I want to ride my bicycle.
I want to ride my bike.
I want to ride my bicycle.
I want to ride it where I like. …
Supply and Demand
Today is Powder House Day in New Haven, but unless you already knew that, you wouldn’t know it. …
Hiding in Plain Sight
“I do not want it anywhere hidden,” Charles Strong wrote of Yale’s proposed memorial to alumni who died in the Civil War. “I want it out in the open.” …
Another Elm City
While he was the president of Yale College in the early 1800s, the theologian, writer and horticulturist Timothy Dwight did a lot of traveling, wherever horse and cart might take him. One of his favorite destinations…
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