Category: Access
06
Jun
Access Central Connecticut Environmental Interest Free Get Outside Hartford County History Long Reads Parks Progress Quality of Life Transportation
Quick Stops: A.W. Stanley Park
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Quick Stops highlights small doses of nature that are easily accessible from public transportation. Is the green space less than a two-minute relatively safe walk...
26
May
Bushnell Bicycle Parking, Two Years Later
by Kerri Ana Provost
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After 14+ years of begging for bike parking at a well-funded cultural institution, some was finally installed almost two years ago. They even mention it...
16
May
Hazardous Hamilton
by Kerri Ana Provost
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I know exactly what the intersection looks like without consulting anything beyond my memory of having crossed through the area countless times on my way...
13
May
Access Activism Climate Possibilities Design Environmental Interest Get Outside Hartford Hartford County Regionalism Rivers Transportation Unsolicited Advice
Drive Less CT Climate Challenge: Week Four
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Bike West Hartford just wrapped up its #BikesMeanBusiness campaign, a four-day effort to teach local business owners that customers bike, walk, and use the bus...
06
May
Access Climate Possibilities Downtown Hartford Meet Your Infrastructure Myth Busting Transportation Unsolicited Advice
Drive Less CT Climate Challenge: Week Three
by Kerri Ana Provost
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You’d think more people would have taken to heart one of the “lessons” from Ted Lasso — be curious. Life is more interesting when lived...
25
Apr
Constructing Higher Expectations
by Kerri Ana Provost
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The annoying construction in Bushnell Park is made less annoying because of a few things that should happen for every project: 1. There was communication...
07
Apr
Beyond Hartford: Yale Peabody Revisited
by Kerri Ana Provost
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The first time I visited the Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven was shortly before they closed for their several year renovation project. It felt...
07
Apr
Access Beyond Hartford Commentary Cultural Interest Design Environmental Interest Get Outside Hartford County History Long Reads Rivers Transportation Weird
Beyond Hartford: Glastonbury; or, GALLIVANTED THROUGH GLASTONBURY, GUTTED TO FIND NO GLAWACKUS: CRYPTID’S CORRIDOR NOT CATERED TO BY COACH
by Kerri Ana Provost
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The first documentation of the Glawackus (“Glastonbury” + “Wacky”) was on Friday, January 13, 1939, but from the coverage given by The Hartford Courant, it...
02
Apr
Safe Streets Connecticut: March 2024
by Kerri Ana Provost
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In March, seven pedestrians were killed by drivers in Connecticut; on April 1, 2024, seven World Central Kitchen workers delivering food in Gaza were killed...
28
Mar
Access Activism Community Cultural Interest Environmental Interest Film Free Fun Hartford Hartford's Neighborhoods Holiday Music Myth Busting Nothing To Do Nowhere To Go Parks Shopping Spring
A Little Something (April 2024)
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Queering housing, Iftar-Shabbat, Taylor Swift trivia night, and a total eclipse of the heart