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Starring Roles

Sheila Levrant de Bretteville and "Path of Stars"

Next time you’re strolling through New Haven’s Ninth Square district, look down.

You’ve probably walked by, or on, them before: 21 granite stars embedded in the sidewalks of Orange and Crown Streets. There’s one memorializing…

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Writing the Ship

Amistad Memorial

Earlier this month, Connecticut Congressman Joe Courtney caught a big blunder in the new film biography of Abraham Lincoln. One scene shows states voting to ratify the amendment abolishing slavery, with Courtney’s 19th-century…

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Taking It Public

Anne Frank-themed public art in New Haven

Art is easily had in New Haven. Just this week, at the Ideat Village festival temporary headquarters at 118 Court Street, there was an un-juried, free-for-all overflow of a gallery show featuring over six dozen area artists. Some of these …

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