Category: Hartford’s Neighborhoods

03 Sep

Commentary Design Downtown Environmental Interest Get Outside Hartford Long Reads North Meadows Parks

Strong Enough

by Kerri Ana Provost

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Last month when I wrote about a leaking faucet in a cemetery, there were a few things I did not get a chance to mention....

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

Activism Autumn Barry Square Commentary Community Cultural Interest Downtown Environmental Interest Film Free Frog Hollow Fun Get Outside Hartford History Long Reads Music Myth Busting North Meadows Nothing To Do Nowhere To Go Parks Parkville Reader Tip South West Summer Transportation Volunteer Women

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....

27 Aug

Access Commentary Design Frog Hollow Hartford Long Reads Reader Tip Transportation Unsolicited Advice

AITA

by Kerri Ana Provost

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For two months during the summer of 2018, the bathrooms on CTrail Hartford Line trains were closed. It is a classic example of someone following...

24 Aug

Commentary Environmental Interest Frog Hollow Get Outside Hartford Parks Transportation

Re-Create

by Kerri Ana Provost

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While sign clutter is real, I love a colorful and informative interpretative sign. This one, in Pope Park, explains the habitat around the pond. From...

22 Aug

Commentary Environmental Interest Frog Hollow Get Outside Hartford Long Reads Municipal Parks Reader Tip Unsolicited Advice

Leak

by Kerri Ana Provost

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Years back at the dog-and-pony show known as the annual City of Hartford budget hearing, a friend pointed out how one of the sinks in...

10 Aug

Downtown Environmental Interest Frog Hollow Get Outside Hartford Local News Long Reads Municipal Parks

What’s Your Damage?

by Kerri Ana Provost

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Following a storm in July, one of the local news outlets — doesn’t matter which one — made a pronouncement of where damage was and...

08 Aug

Asylum Hill Environmental Interest Get Outside Hartford Myth Busting Summer

Butterfly Buffet

by Kerri Ana Provost

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I didn’t realize that a certain type of milkweed was controversial, but the two plants pictured here are not that kind. Tropical milkweed was one...

06 Aug

Access Commentary Design Environmental Interest Frog Hollow Hartford Unsolicited Advice

Re-Reuse

by Kerri Ana Provost

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This is not the first or even second season that this repurposed dumpster has been on Capitol Avenue, so I am still surprised when people...

04 Aug

Access Activism Clay Arsenal Commentary Design Hartford Local News Long Reads Reader Tip Transportation Upper Albany

Safe Streets Connecticut: July 2023

by Kerri Ana Provost

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By the end of July, drivers had killed 31 pedestrians and cyclists in Connecticut. That's about one preventable death every week.