Category: Holiday
29
Dec
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New Year’s Eve
by Kerri Ana Provost
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My favorite part of New Year’s Eve is pure schadenfreude: watching people dressed for Hawaii stumbling about New England in the dead of winter. I’m...
26
Dec
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Top Stories of 2010
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Here are the top twelve items of interest on Real Hartford, judging by which posts were read the most and over the longest period of...
24
Dec
Happy Holidays
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Oh, Harriet! All gussied up like this– people will talk!
17
Dec
Lights, Window Displays, Action
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Because it’s often my route to work, I have seen the lights in Bushnell Park plenty during the daytime, which is to say, I have...
12
Dec
All the Holiday Spirit You Can Handel
by Kerri Ana Provost
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At one time Handel’s music was considered “profane and subversive,” which is something I do not remember learning during high school choir when we would...
09
Dec
Faith in Lights on Thin Ice
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Weeks ago, the City’s Director of Communications sent a flurry of emails regarding the Festival of Light. Short attention spans combined with a scheduling disaster...
03
Dec
Trees & Stuff
by Kerri Ana Provost
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If you are looking for all the sparkly twinkle lights in Hartford, they are in Avery Court. The opening of the 37th Annual Festival of...
01
Dec
Supporting the Local Community and Economy
by Kerri Ana Provost
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This holiday shopping season, I have seen the phrase and concept “buy locally” appropriated. People are beginning to describe shopping at the Wal-Mart in town...
26
Nov
37th Festival of Trees and Traditions
by Kerri Ana Provost
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On the first Thursday of each month, an assortment of venues hold art openings, theatrical and special cultural events in a seemingly successful effort to...