It’s hard to imagine the game of football without yard lines and fourth downs and organized teams of 11. But before New Havener Walter Camp, the sport was missing all of those elements and more. …
Shedding Light

The sun will set at 4:25 p.m. in New Haven tomorrow. It’s the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, though it doesn’t have the earliest sunset. That already occurred on December 8, at 4:22 and change. …
Extended Family

On the phone from Changsha, China, David Youtz, then-president of the Yale-China Association, described the city…
Bits and Pieces

One of the most valuable collections at the New Haven Museum’s Whitney Library isn’t a set of rare manuscripts or first editions. …
Neighboring

Home to a historic village, a public library, old factory buildings, art studios and galleries, Edgewood Park, Hopkins School, the Yale Bowl, the Yale Golf Course and…
Going the Distance

“Dad, I didn’t imagine it like this—so lonely,” says 16-year-old Nadir, a refugee from Syria, in an installment of Welcome to the New World, a cartoon strip series published in 2017 by The New York Times. His words …
Bits and Pieces

One of the most valuable collections at the New Haven Museum’s Whitney Library isn’t a set of rare manuscripts or first editions. …
Super Humans

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Its campus is a quilt of manicured green expanses, charming New England architecture and…