Kerri Ana

Category: Long Reads

18 Apr
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Building Community at Zion Hill Cemetery

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Friends of Zion Hill Cemetery, with help from Trinity College students, did more beautification work at Frog Hollow’s Zion Hill Cemetery this weekend. Volunteers picked...
05 Apr
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Unhidden Gems: Fung

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This post is about Fung and it is not about Fung. It’s what makes Fung Chinese Restaurant possible, and what threatens it, and others like...
29 Mar
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Clover Gardens

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As more people return to their office jobs in downtown Hartford — noticeable by the increase in rush hour traffic — they might notice several...
22 Mar
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Unhidden Gems: St. Anne’s

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Today, the church is closed. In the late 19th century, Catholic French-Canadians decided they wanted their own parish. Before having a designated space for worship,...
20 Mar
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Deborah Chapel Endangered

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UPDATE: 21 March 2021 — According to Mayor Luke Bronin, the City of Hartford is filing an appeal, which could potentially prevent the demolition of...
15 Mar
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Hartford County Building

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Like most, I have had no occasion to enter 95 Washington Street, and I am pretty okay with that. . . especially because my curiosity...
08 Mar
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Unhidden Gems: Lo Sano

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I can’t possibly talk about Lo Sano and Hartford present without first staring down some Hartford nostalgia. Like many buildings of a certain age, this...
06 Mar
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Small Step Forward for Pedestrian Safety

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Last week H.B. 5429 made it out of committee. (We can talk about the irony of gridlock when it comes to progressive action on transportation...
04 Mar
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Art, Artists, and Attribution

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There’s this strange trend showing up, primarily on Instagram, of people asking/demanding that muralists get tagged on social media — even if the artists’ names...
28 Feb
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Hartford’s Pedestrian and Cyclist Crashes, 2020

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Besides looking at the fatal pedestrian/cyclist crash data statewide in 2020, I was tracking all collisions with pedestrians/cyclists in Hartford.  Except for first responders and...