Category: Long Reads
01
Jul
Safe Streets Connecticut: June 2024
by Kerri Ana Provost
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If we designed with love, drivers wouldn't have killed 39 pedestrians in Connecticut this year.
30
Jun
Access Activism Beyond Hartford Climate Possibilities Coastal Connecticut Cultural Interest Environmental Interest Fairfield County Long Reads Parks Transportation
Beyond Hartford: The Hollow and Downtown Bridgeport
by Kerri Ana Provost
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What can someone who is car-free and living in Connecticut’s capital city access via public transportation?
12
Jun
Access Activism Climate Possibilities Cultural Interest Environmental Interest Hartford Long Reads Myth Busting New Haven County Unsolicited Advice
Capacity
by Kerri Ana Provost
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It is about time that the rest of the world is catching up to radical joy and climate optimism.
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...
30
May
Cultural Interest Environmental Interest Faith Film Free Hartford History Long Reads Music Myth Busting Nothing To Do Nowhere To Go Parks Rivers
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
20
May
Climate Possibilities Downtown Environmental Interest Frog Hollow Get Outside Hartford Long Reads Myth Busting Spring Transportation Unsolicited Advice
Drive Less CT Climate Challenge: Week Five
by Kerri Ana Provost
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This week's reason for participating in the CTrides Drive Less CT Climate Challenge: opportunities to participate in feats of strength, or, as some call 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...
01
May
Activism Climate Possibilities Commentary Cultural Interest Environmental Interest History Long Reads New Haven County Unsolicited Advice
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...
24
Apr
Climate Possibilities Environmental Interest Long Reads Quality of Life Reader Tip Regionalism Transportation
Suburban Nonsense Continues West of Hartford
by Kerri Ana Provost
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On the Saturday before Earth Day, West Hartford held their celebration of it in Blue Back Square. They had Hila the Earth rapping about compost...
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...