Category: Beyond Hartford
07
Apr
Beyond Hartford: Yale Peabody Revisited
by Kerri Ana Provost
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The first time I visited the Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven was shortly before they closed for their several year renovation project. It felt...
07
Apr
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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...
29
Mar
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Beyond: Black Rock, Bridgeport
by Kerri Ana Provost
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I have been patiently waiting for a reason to dig into local cryptid lore.
13
Mar
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Beyond Hartford: Downtown New Britain
by Kerri Ana Provost
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[First time visitor? Coming here directly? Stop and learn about the Beyond Hartford, Beyond Cars series before reading on] Kicking off the 2024 season of...
26
Oct
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Doing
by Kerri Ana Provost
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"This is radical hope: knowing that the future can be better and knowing that we are the ones who must make that future happen."
19
Oct
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Elevated Education
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Way too often I find myself in rooms where there’s a conversation about a very serious thing and the One Answer is how “we need...
15
Oct
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Scrappy Fairy Tale of New York
by Kerri Ana Provost
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If NYC, with nearly 9 million residents, can get this rolling in two years, tell me why your town with fewer than 200,000 residents can’t...
11
Oct
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What We Gain From Trick-or-Treating
by Kerri Ana Provost
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What Halloween lets people — young and old — do is experience their neighborhood in a more direct way. There isn’t the sense of just...
05
Oct
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Must Be The Season
by Kerri Ana Provost
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It’s the time of the season when creativity runs amok and maybe slightly unhinged in Old Wethersfield. The Scarecrows Along Main event — also called...
Creating a Future for Peace