Category: Beyond Hartford
04
Jun
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Safe Streets Connecticut: May 2024
by Kerri Ana Provost
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What would it be like if every victim's story was told, if each was treated like a hero instead of little more than a statistic?
20
May
A Good Sign
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Bravery is putting up a lawn sign that cuts right through national chauvinism and imagines something better than the false binary we've been served.
13
May
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Drive Less CT Climate Challenge: Week Four
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Bike West Hartford just wrapped up its #BikesMeanBusiness campaign, a four-day effort to teach local business owners that customers bike, walk, and use the bus...
05
May
War Is Self-Harm
by Kerri Ana Provost
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War is self-harm.War is self-harm. War is self-harm. This is true on every level. War pushes people in the direction of dehumanizing others — whoever...
01
May
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Creating a Future for Peace
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Last week’s Humanity Vigil in New Haven was restorative, and as far as I know, only the New Haven Independent covered it, though with their...
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."