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In early February, Coronavirus was a muted, distant soundtrack for the weeks following my father’s fall and broken hip. COVID-19 was still largely foreign, and warnings from Wuhan, China, remained abstract.
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Rediscovering The Connecticut – Tours on sailboat harken back to the 1600s.
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Connecticut’s John Trumbull may be best known for his painting The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. Despite its precise title, what Trumbull created by 1819 (and repeated twice again by 1832) was a carefully crafted record of an event that did not take place exactly as or when he portrayed it. In this painting there…
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There is another side to Norman Rockwell. Find it at the Rockwell museum in Stockbridge, Mass.
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It has been six years since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School. I mark this anniversary as I have previous anniversaries, by providing a link to a site that provides further links to information about some of the children and adults murdered on Dec. 14, 2012.
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Call it Witches’ Night or Halloween, it gives us a lens through which to view the persecution of women.
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Looking for 200-million-year-old-footprints? Check out Rocky Hill, Conn.
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It’s winter — or the roller coaster that may pass this year for winter in Central Connecticut, with fits of warm weather, occasional low teens, minor snow or ice, but still with a simmering risk of cabin fever. (Sometimes just knowing it’s winter is enough to keep a person bundled up indoors, busy on some…
WORDS of WAR 