Category: Beyond Hartford
14
Oct
Halloween Activities
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Here are a few of the upcoming Halloween events to look out for later this month: Steampunk Halloween Masquerade Ball Exactly what it sounds like....
31
Aug
Back to School Guide: Reclaiming Your Child’s Education (2/2)
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Click here to read about how a student in Hartford opted out of the Connecticut Mastery Test. The Connecticut State Department of Education website makes...
30
Aug
Activism Asylum Hill Beyond Hartford Community Cultural Interest Downtown Faith Film Food Frog Hollow Fun Hartford Music Nothing To Do Nowhere To Go Parks Sheldon/Charter Oak West End
Happening(s) in September
by Kerri Ana Provost
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The following is not intended to be an all-inclusive list. Rather, these are my snobbish selections of what sounds most interesting in the upcoming month....
22
Aug
Prisoner Solidarity Speak-out to Mark End of Rolling Fast
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Local activists began a rolling fast at the beginning of this month to show solidarity with prisoners in the California state system; 6,600 prisoners had...
09
Aug
Rolling Fast
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Last month, 6,600 prisoners in California participated in a protest against indefinite solitary confinement. It began at the Pelican Bay State Prison; eventually, inmates at...
07
Aug
Beyond Hartford Environmental Interest Fun Hartford Myth Busting Regionalism Transportation Unsolicited Advice
Climate Summer a Success
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Just over a month ago, five young women from New England Climate Summer — Team RICONN — biked through Hartford, after starting their trip in...
16
Jul
Stupidity Loses One
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Nearly a year ago, we wrote about the MDC public hearing regarding the potential closing of West Hartford Reservoir to recreation. The impetus for this...
06
Jul
Access Activism Beyond Hartford Environmental Interest Food Frog Hollow Hartford Hartford's Neighborhoods North East Quality of Life Regionalism
The Great Food Swamp
by Kerri Ana Provost
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It’s not accurate to describe Hartford as being a food desert. This term implies that food is unavailable. The obesity rate says otherwise. Instead, we...
06
Jul
Climate Summer
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Eighteen people, ranging from traditional college students to retirees, gathered in a musty basement bordering the Trinity College campus, yet not one was currently affiliated...
13
Jun
No Kangaroos Were Killed in the Making of this Art
by Kerri Ana Provost
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A jet-lagged Shaun Gladwell reassured Wadsworth Atheneum patrons in early June that the dead kangaroo featured in one of his videos was roadkill — already...