Category: History
30
May
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A Little Something (June 2024)
by Kerri Ana Provost
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drumming circle • plant sale • queer craft night • wig styling • braiding sweetgrass • strange worlds • strawberry shortcake • more
01
May
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Creating a Future for Peace
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Last week’s Humanity Vigil in New Haven was restorative, and as far as I know, only the New Haven Independent covered it, though with their...
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...
29
Mar
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Beyond: Black Rock, Bridgeport
by Kerri Ana Provost
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I have been patiently waiting for a reason to dig into local cryptid lore.
29
Jan
A Little Something (February 2024)
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Amelie, Beautyland, Groundhog Day, Garbologists, Queen of the Deuce . . .
28
Jan
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Constant Flux
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Our problem has always come when we have tried to contain what is wild.
28
Dec
Activism Community Cultural Interest Education Environmental Interest Film Free Get Outside Hartford History Music Myth Busting Nothing To Do Nowhere To Go Winter
Hartford Events (January 2024)
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Start 2024 off right by coming out and being part of a community
27
Dec
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Flower Street: The UnPratt
by Kerri Ana Provost
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A decade ago then-mayor Pedro Segarra stopped fighting to keep a quieter north-south road open for pedestrians and cyclists, and the barricades went up in...
23
Nov
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Plowshares
by Kerri Ana Provost
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What do we give the next generation? Do we teach them how to nurture, or teach them how to wound and be wounded?
12
Nov
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Mutual Aid
by Kerri Ana Provost
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“[W]e must become the systems we need – no government, political party, or corporation is going to care for us, so we have to remember...