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Tall Tree, Tall Tales
Courant Staff WriterIn the bowels of the Connecticut Historical Society on graceful Elizabeth Street, Richard C. Malley is leading a cook's tour. As assistant director of museum collections, and curator of technology, Malley knows his way around the museum's extensive...Tags: Mark Twain, Furniture, Dining and Drinking, Arts and Culture, Old State House
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A Walk With History
The Hartford CourantIt's a beautiful spring day, and Edward Richardson of Glastonbury has just climbed 96 steps to the top of the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch in Hartford's Bushnell Park. To the south are the gold domes of the state Capitol and the Bushnell Center...Tags: Wethersfield, Frederick Law Olmsted, Central Park, Arts and Culture, Monuments and Heritage Sites
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Max's O'Hartford 5K & Wee Mile
Downtown Hartford streets will be running with green on Sunday, March 15, for the "Max's O'Hartford 5K & Wee Mile." Nearly 2,000 runners and walkers are expected to compete in the annual event,with many participants dressed in their finest - or most...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Politics, Sports, Eyewear, Migration
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What Monorail DestinationsWould You Choose?
The Hartford CourantThis week's question:Some readers say the tentative monorail route should be modified and expanded to include places like West Hartford Center, Bradley International Airport and even Rein's Deli in Vernon. If you were mapping out a plausible route, what...Tags: Mark Twain, Aetna Inc., East Hartford, Goodwin College, Danbury
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Hundreds Of Hartford Residents Turn Out Against Violence
The Hartford CourantDown the hill from the state Capitol, Cheryl Lawrence stood in a cluster with her family, her nephew's face staring out from the shirt on her chest. Joel Hightower. He was celebrating his 20th birthday when he was shot dead 10 days earlier, the city's...Tags: Winsted, Glastonbury, Bloomfield (Hartford, Connecticut), Crimes, Regional Authority
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Hartford/Central Connecticut
Wood Pond PressHARTFORD Lately billed as New England's rising star, the Insurance City – Connecticut's state capital – is making a comeback from its low point in the early 1990s when people, jobs, retailers and the major-league hockey franchise left for greener...Tags: Mark Twain, Soccer, Adults, Arts, Culture
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Jazz Event Listing
BUSHNELL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS June 8 - Wayne Shorter Quartet, 7:30 p.m. •Call for tickets. Belding Theater, 166 Capitol Ave., Hartford. Information: 860-987-5900; www.bushnell.org. GREAT CONNECTICUT JAZZFEST 2002 July 25 - Special event:...Tags: Tom Harrell, Education, Bill Cosby, Sex, Josh Evans
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Etc. (Listings of Other Stuff)
55TH ANNUAL OPEN HOUSE TOUR OF LITCHFIELD July 13 - Features selection of historic and architecturally significant homes. Self-guided tour begins at the information booth on the green. Proceeds benefit Connecticut Junior Republic. •10 a.m.-5 p.m....Tags: Mark Twain, Janeane Garofalo, Florence Griswold House, Aries Spears, Soccer
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The Monument Makers
Northeast MagazineWar monuments are such mute and familiar inhabitants of the Connecticut landscape - on town greens, in cemeteries, outside government offices - that nobody knows exactly how many there are. The best estimate is upward of 250, easily making them the most...Tags: Local Elections, Manhattan (New York City), Vietnam War (1955-1975), Housatonic River, Depression
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Quantum Leap
Courant Staff WriterWhen noted architects from Amsterdam and New York unveil their expansion plans for the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art at a press conference Friday, the public will get its first glimpse of the dramatic, innovative improvements soon in store for the 160-...Tags: Museum of Modern Art, Employees, Washington (U.S. state), Manhattan (New York City), Education
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Fiddle Contest Reigns In City
Courant Staff WriterAs thousands of spectators gathered at Riverfront Plaza in Hartford on a cool and overcast Sunday for the New England Fiddle Contest, nervous organizers looked to the skies in hopes the weather would cooperate. The mellow crowd, seated on blankets and...Tags: Hamburgers, Georgetown, West Hartford, Death, Foods and Beverages
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Christmas Viewed In Prism Of Time
The Hartford CourantThe color of Christmas has been green for centuries -- long before retailers went boom or bust from their holiday sales. Decking the halls with boughs of holly came long before department store Santas. ``The connotation of hope and renewal is represented...Tags: Arts and Culture, Homes, Holidays, Thomas Nast, Colleges and Universities
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