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| With a commanding location overlooking Washington Square at the intersection of Church, Main, Water and Washington Streets in Norwich is the Beriah S. Rathbun House and Apartments. It was built about 1869 at 6-8 Church Street by Beriah S. Rathbun, a... |
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| green.blogs.nytimes.com For years we did a very good job at hindering domestic solar development on our own. Thanks mostly to useless Washington bureaucrats and the special interests that have long controlled them. As a result, China beat us to the punch.... |
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| Wed. Feb 15, 6 to 8pm, Lilys Pad, New Haven, CT Come to this monthly gathering where you will be able to meet and engage individuals who represent various interests in environmental stewardship and sustainability. At 7pm, Claudia Bosch and Ben... |
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| I'm no Rush fan, but this is over-the-top.... |
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| The Cervical Traction Pillow is two neck pillows in one. If you are using the traction V side you can turn it (or rotate the pillow) and then you can sleep on the Linear Gravity side. This pillow just has the... |
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| Mooooo-vin on Through the Farmer s Cow Farms Mapleleaf Farm, Hebron June 11, 2011 Mapleleaf Farm is part of the wonderful Farmers Cow. The Farmers Cow is a group of six Connecticut family dairy farms working for the future of our... |
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| Sorry to all my friends (and CT Joyce) who are New England Patriots fans. I know this won't make you feel much better, but I was saying that if the Giants had to lose to anyone, I was hoping it would... |
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| In hoping that some might come out to his free talk (and worth every penny of it) at the Mark Twain House Museum Wednesday evening, Denis Horganis deeply grateful to The Hartford Courant and the diaspora for the generosity in... |
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| Skid Steer and Dump Truck This morning Patrick was telling Sherree that the skid steer puts dirt in the dump truck. This afternoon our enclosed porch was warm from the sunny day and we spent some time out there....... |
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| Okay, so what records will be broken during tonight's Super Bowl. Typically, 111 million or more American viewers will consume 1.25 billion chicken wings, 325 million gallons of beer, 71.4 million pounds of avocados in their Guacamole dip, 13.2 million pounds... |
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| By BILL MURRAY EdocMasters LLC With Andy Thibault... The U.S. credit card system is so vulnerable because it relies on decades-old technology in which information is encoded into a magnetic stripe on the back of the card. So-called smart cards... |
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| from John How would you like a job where you have to get up at 430 AM, leave for work at 545 AM, start at 6 AM and finish at 430 PM. This is a jobthat keeps you busy until 930... |
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| It was a winter Saturday evening in a small New England College town in the mid nineteen-seventies. It could have been just about any such evening, because there was a similar pattern, a similar flow to such evenings. I was a... |
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| (All right, enough waiting for the other 29 percent. Hopefully this post conveys that it doesn't matter what slight changes they'll make to the final vote tallies.) I don't know who's fooling themselves more--Newt Gingrich or the media. You get... |
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| Heres a few gems that are sure to educate and entertain the kids. Whether youre a parent, or a grandparent, books, childrens music CDs and movie DVDs are always nice to tuck away for those April Shower rainy days! Easter Gift... |
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| An oddities and curiosities shop in Wallingford? Try to keep us away.... |
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| This car has been generously cut. Sitting on its rallying roots with the mitsubishi evolution 7 is the mitsubishi evolution wallpaper , however, is a cinch, even on the mitsubishi evolution forums a more linear power delivery. It feels virtually as... |
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| New Haven s lawmakers vowed to get moving on a plan to connect local people to new jobs and gave themselves a deadline.... |
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| The Fighting Fifth! Re the George Allen story. Just yesterday on his show, Frank Skinner was explaining his policy of Google. You may Google that which you have never known but you may not Google that which you have forgotten. Because,... |
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| Stopped by Two Guys One Grill in Wallingford a couple weeks ago. Excellent hot dogs! And some really innovative twists, as well - I've asked them to contribute a recipe to the History of Connecticut Food. Stop by if you get... |
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| Recently spotted at Big Lots huge, 48-count boxes of Pop-Tarts! Each of these wastebasket-sized packages contain six times the standard number of sugary, crusty frosted delights - 24 each of frosted strawberry and nutritionally-defunct Brown Sugar Cinnamon. It's POP-TART HEAVEN!... |
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| Facebook's registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission is a brilliant read for anyone who works in marketing or social media, because as Facebook prepares to go public it has to lay out everything that could go right or wrong in... |
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| Mr. Romney the Republican front-runner, whom White House officials view as their likely opponent also faces the danger of looking oddly out of step if he presses ahead, as he did on Friday, with his accusation that Mr. Obama had made... |
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| From February 3, 2012 "Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." (I wonder if Theodore Roosevelt got this idea from the flowers.) www.sandycarlson.net... |
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| Against Hollywood or Human Rights? An unholy alliance of Hollywood nobility formed to make-believe-films about IRI Human Rights Violations as cultural differences.... |
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| Did you ever think that you could move all of your furnishings and belongings to your new home via bike? Me either. But someone who moved to Hartford recently did Thanks to Kerri Provost from the Real Hartford blog for providing... |
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| O Ourinhos Basquete se recuperou na Liga de Basquete Feminino (LBF) 20112012 ao superar o Santo AndrSemasa, neste sbado (04 de fevereiro), por 78 a 73 , na prorrogao, depois de um empate de 66 pontos no tempo normal (32 a... |
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| This afternoon we went skating at the Rink at Longshore so the Scouts could earn the Skating Merit Badge. We did all the book work (first aid, safety, etiquette, etc) during the past two weekly meetings. All that was left...... |
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| Making the long, long, long drive back from the Crosby-Wilby boys basketball game Friday night, I switched on WFAN to catch some of the New Jersey Nets game against the Minnesota Timberwolves, and what to my wondrous ears did I hear,... |
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| Written byCindy Rinfret of Rinfret Interior Design Format Hardcover Greenwich, Connecticut, has a mystique all its own. It epitomizes the suburban tradition in America, with houses that are among the country s most beautiful examples of colonial, Tudor, and English country... |
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| My rating 3 of 5 stars Having been the victim of a Mafia car bombing, Inspector Aurelio Zen is under protective custody, recuperating dejectedly at a seaside villa. Although he goes to the beach nearly every day, he s made only... |
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| Doesn't an organization have the right to say or show what it stands for? And what it doesn't? This is the message that I received from an NSSTA member on one side of the explosive factoring issue... This is a content... |
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| Baby-boomers, or snowbirds, as they are plenty of mountains to hike on with elevations that will offer you the prescott arizona florists for producing some of these retirement communities continue to heat up. This is why so many visitors each and... |
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| We had our wood stove insert installed today. We usually keep all of the thermostats at 65, with some set at 67 for morning time. But the goal is to heat the house with the stove so that we save oil.... |
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| (From Wait, What? at www.jonathanpelto.com) Seven years ago, the Connecticut General Assembly adopted the Citizens Election Program. As a result of that monumental action,Connecticut put in place a campaign finance system that would ensure our citizens enjoyed the fairest, cleanest and... |
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| While James Finnucan was in charge of the Ansonia Housing Authority, his family also collected rent from tenants in a Section 8 apartment the Finnucans owned, the Valley Independent Sentinel has learned. The arrangement was a conflict of interest and Finnucan... |
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| Outskirts of Holden Beach Known as one of the top family beaches in the US, Holden Beach is a quiet and peaceful beach nestled near the border of North and South Carolina. The town of Holden Beach borders the beach from... |
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| As we approach Super Bowl Sunday this weekend, I'm afraid I might draw a penalty flag with this post for "piling on", which is the football term for throwing oneself on a pile of players who have already brought down the... |
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| The important thing to remember about Watergate other than the notorious cover-up, the stonewalling, the raft of lies told to the media, the imperious claims of executive privilege is that nobody died there. Some of the principal presidential miscreants responsible for... |
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| By Mindy McIntosh-Shetter As an avid reader, I have lately been looking into books that deal with personal development and came upon a concept called feng shui. This concept has its roots buried deep in the Chinese belief system of balance... |
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| Video courtesy of John Neumeller, Producer Danbury Live... |
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| These beautiful meme movie posters by Stefan Van Zoggel may be even better than the memes themselves. via Laughing Squid... |
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