Category: History
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Oct
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A Little Something (November 2023)
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Looking for something to do in November?
30
Sep
Access Activism Autumn Barry Square Community Cultural Interest Downtown Education Environmental Interest Faith Film Food Free Frog Hollow Fun Get Outside Ghost Town Hartford Hartford's Neighborhoods History Holiday Living Local News Long Reads Music Myth Busting Nothing To Do Nowhere To Go Parks Parkville Quality of Life Reader Tip Sheldon/Charter Oak Shopping South West Transportation Upper Albany Weird
A Little Something (October 2023)
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Trick-or-treating on a pedestrianized street is always better than that travesty known as trunk-or-treating
07
Sep
On The Level
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Had we chosen to live differently with water, it’s unlikely Hartford would have been so carved up by highways. At least, not ones so bloated...
05
Sep
Design Downtown Environmental Interest Hartford History Long Reads Meet Your Infrastructure North Meadows Parks Rivers
Footbridge
by Kerri Ana Provost
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FUN FACTS ABOUT THIS OVERBUILT MONSTROSITY AND ITS ENVIRONS The plan in 1977 was to tear down a pedestrian bridge so that I-91 could be...
31
Aug
Access Commentary Environmental Interest Frog Hollow Hartford History Long Reads Parks Parkville Transportation
Car Park
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Pope Park West is a poster child for wrong-headed decisions. Bad enough that it was orphaned by I-84, the parcel on Pope Park Hwy #4...
30
Aug
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A Little Something (September 2023)
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Here’s your curated Hartford event calendar for September 2023. What makes this list? Events that I would either attend or recommend to a good friend....
20
Aug
Access Activism Commentary Design Environmental Interest Food Hartford History Long Reads Myth Busting Summer
Enough
by Kerri Ana Provost
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In 1943, a 25 x 40 foot model Victory Garden could be found on the east lawn of the Old State House, at the spot...
18
Aug
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Beyond Hartford: Milford
by Kerri Ana Provost
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[First time visitor? Coming here directly? Stop and learn about the Beyond Hartford, Beyond Cars series before reading on] I’m not saying that a state...
30
Jul
Access Activism Commentary Community Cultural Interest Environmental Interest Food Free Frog Hollow Get Outside Hartford History Local News Long Reads Progress Summer West End
Communitarian
by Kerri Ana Provost
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That’s the word Andrew May used to describe his philosophy, and I wanted to ask if it was something contagious. To be honest, it probably...
27
Jul
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Abundance
by Kerri Ana Provost
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What’s happening over in Zion Hill Cemetery today is not unprecedented. In British Columbia, a cemetery grows vegetables to give to the community; they also...