Category: Downtown
02
Apr
How To Stop Worrying About Parking in Hartford
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Take public transportation instead. I don’t know if muralist Ben Keller was trying to be subversive, but check out the train theme in his new...
25
Mar
What’s Up, Wexford?
by Kerri Ana Provost
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The monument is looking a little different these days
23
Mar
Barry Square Downtown Frog Hollow Get Outside Ghost Town Hartford Hartford's Neighborhoods Myth Busting Parks South End Spring Winter
Dispatches from the Alleged Ghost Town (Volume 17)
by Kerri Ana Provost
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No matter where I went, I kept running into — or almost getting run over, literally — by people doing fitness things. Of course, there...
22
Mar
Subway Out, Seafood In
by Kerri Ana Provost
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More Than Just Lobster 2 is coming to 493 Main Street. The original restaurant is in New Britain. Their menu is mostly seafood, with a...
16
Mar
Commentary Downtown Frog Hollow Get Outside Ghost Town Hartford Myth Busting Nothing To Do Nowhere To Go Parks Shopping West End Winter
Dispatches from the Alleged Ghost Town (Volume 16)
by Kerri Ana Provost
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While wandering/going to work/running errands, I’m not actively thinking “I need to take pictures of people,” but I am considering plenty of other things. Like,...
11
Mar
The View on Trinity Street
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Months later, the road that cuts through Bushnell Park remains open to people on foot and bicycle. In before times, when the idea of doing...
06
Mar
Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, and the Horse He Rode In On
by Kerri Ana Provost
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La Fayette, a French abolitionist, fought in the American Revolution. When he visited Hartford in 1824, he received a hero’s welcome. His arrival was marked...
04
Mar
Commentary Cultural Interest Downtown Frog Hollow Get Outside Hartford Long Reads Nothing To Do Nowhere To Go Parkville Unsolicited Advice
Art, Artists, and Attribution
by Kerri Ana Provost
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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...
02
Mar
Asylum Hill Downtown Get Outside Ghost Town Hartford Myth Busting No Drama Weather Parks Transportation Winter
Dispatches from the Alleged Ghost Town (Volume 14)
by Kerri Ana Provost
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No difficulty finding people outside whether it was sunny or raining. Yes, even in downtown on a weekend during the pandemic in the rain. Even...
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