Category: Hartford’s Neighborhoods
24
Aug
Re-Create
by Kerri Ana Provost
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While sign clutter is real, I love a colorful and informative interpretative sign. This one, in Pope Park, explains the habitat around the pond. From...
22
Aug
Commentary Environmental Interest Frog Hollow Get Outside Hartford Long Reads Municipal Parks Reader Tip Unsolicited Advice
Leak
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Years back at the dog-and-pony show known as the annual City of Hartford budget hearing, a friend pointed out how one of the sinks in...
10
Aug
Downtown Environmental Interest Frog Hollow Get Outside Hartford Local News Long Reads Municipal Parks
What’s Your Damage?
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Following a storm in July, one of the local news outlets — doesn’t matter which one — made a pronouncement of where damage was and...
08
Aug
Butterfly Buffet
by Kerri Ana Provost
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I didn’t realize that a certain type of milkweed was controversial, but the two plants pictured here are not that kind. Tropical milkweed was one...
06
Aug
Re-Reuse
by Kerri Ana Provost
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This is not the first or even second season that this repurposed dumpster has been on Capitol Avenue, so I am still surprised when people...
04
Aug
Access Activism Clay Arsenal Commentary Design Hartford Local News Long Reads Reader Tip Transportation Upper Albany
Safe Streets Connecticut: July 2023
by Kerri Ana Provost
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By the end of July, drivers had killed 31 pedestrians and cyclists in Connecticut. That's about one preventable death every week.
01
Aug
Queer All Year
by Kerri Ana Provost
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. . . or at least through the end of July, when I took a photograph of this sign.
30
Jul
Access Asylum Hill Cultural Interest Downtown Education Environmental Interest Film Food Free Fun Get Outside Hartford Long Reads Music Myth Busting North East Nothing To Do Nowhere To Go Parks Reader Tip South West Summer Transportation West End
A Little Something (August 2023)
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Take a moonlight walk, get free ice cream, and identify mushrooms . . . but not all at once.
AITA