Category: Commentary
11
Aug
Access Commentary Community Covid-19 Cultural Interest Downtown Free Fun Get Outside Ghost Town Hartford Long Reads Myth Busting Nothing To Do Nowhere To Go Parks Summer
Dispatches from the Alleged Ghost Town (Volume 36)
by Kerri Ana Provost
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This week the Courant published a hard truth, and what those of us reading the hard data for awhile already knew: Hartford’s vaccination rate, besides...
28
Jul
Asylum Hill Commentary Cultural Interest Downtown Food Free Frog Hollow Fun Get Outside Ghost Town Hartford Music Myth Busting Parks Quality of Life Summer Transportation West End
Dispatches from the Alleged Ghost Town (Volume 34)
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Thankful for frozen treats on 90° days Thanks to these young people for serving as a collective pace car, deterring motorists from speeding down Park...
21
Jul
Access Commentary Cultural Interest Downtown Get Outside Ghost Town Hartford Long Reads Parks Transportation
Dispatches from the Alleged Ghost Town (Volume 33)
by Kerri Ana Provost
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On a recent jaunt through Brooklyn and Manhattan — seven miles of walking on one afternoon — I made a few observations. More than a...
19
Jul
Beyond Hartford Commentary Cultural Interest Design Environmental Interest Geology Get Outside Long Reads New England Summer Weird
Three Sisters Sanctuary
by Kerri Ana Provost
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The fire-breathing dragon was not breathing its fire on this wet day, yet Three Sisters Sanctuary managed to impress, and no amount of rain was...
11
Jun
Access Activism Commentary Community Cultural Interest Design Environmental Interest Free Hartford Hartford's Neighborhoods Local News Municipal Quality of Life Transportation
Better Than Dwelling on What’s Broken
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Not feeling that heatwave? Scowling over a tripping hazard? There is a constructive way to help shape how our city looks and functions. Planting trees,...
09
Jun
Hartford’s Parks Are Not Closed
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Once again, you can’t turn anywhere without hearing the lie that City parks were shut down over the weekend. We heard similar untruths throughout 2020....
23
May
Access Activism Beyond Hartford Central Connecticut Commentary Cultural Interest Design Education Environmental Interest Free Fun Get Outside Local News Long Reads New England Reader Tip Transportation
Wheels in Old Wethersfield
by Kerri Ana Provost
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The Scarecrows on Main event was a cute distraction, but now, with Bicycles on Main, I’m convinced that Old Wethersfield is trying to become a...
07
May
Commentary Environmental Interest Fun Get Outside Hartford Hartford's Neighborhoods Long Reads Myth Busting Nothing To Do Nowhere To Go Rivers Spring West End
Curiosity
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Walking around in one’s own city should not be radical or weird or necessarily the topic of conversation; it should be normal. Why isn’t it?...
01
May
Access Commentary Construction Cultural Interest Design Environmental Interest Get Outside Hartford Local News Long Reads North Meadows Parks Rivers
Park in the Meadows, Meadow in the Park
by Kerri Ana Provost
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It’s not entirely news that Riverfront Recapture purchased the only true meadow left in Hartford’s North Meadows. Or, rather, the only one that is not...
Dispatches from the Alleged Ghost Town (Volume 37)