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Exploring Hartford's Famous Burial Grounds
Since its founding by English settlers, Hartford has been one of New England's most populous cities. Over the nearly four centuries of Hartford's existence, millions of people have lived and died here and, in most cases, their earthly remains were...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Groton, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Newington
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8 Great Concerts Happening This Weekend
Looking for something to do this weekend? You're in luck, because there are plenty of great concerts happening around the state over the next few days. Here are eight upcoming shows worth checking out. For a more extensive list, visit our Music...
Tags: Arts and Culture, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Plenty Of Travelers Hitting The Road This Week
While there are some historians who argue we should celebrate Independence Day on July 2, rather than on the fourth, holiday travelers probably give little thought to the issue. "The fourth is the fourth," they'll say, despite the fact that the Second...Tags: Automotive Equipment, Petroleum Industry, Holidays, Gillette Castle State Park, Transportation Industry
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Experience The Hartford Jazz Society's free Monday Night Jazz Series, Mondays from July 9 to August 13
If you have an itch for jazz that listening to records simply can’t scratch, The Hartford Jazz Society's free Monday Night Jazz Series might be just what you need. From July 9th to August 13th on Mondays in Bushnell Park, the Society will bring...
Tags: Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Poet Samuel Amadon doesn't do Hartford any favors
Author Event: Poet Samuel Amadon reading from The Hartford Book with Timothy Donnelly, award-winning author of The Cloud Corporation, Wed., July 18, at Real Art Ways, Arbor St., Hartford, realartways.org Hartford is a peculiar subject. Live or work...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Wallace Stevens, Premature Birth, Arts and Culture, Economy, Business and Finance
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Travelers' Founder: Hartford's 19th-Century Renaissance Man
The Hartford CourantIn 1845, a young man from the marble district of the Litchfield Hills arrived in Hartford just as the city's new rail line helped trigger an industrial boom that, by 1870, made it one of the richest small cities in America. At age 22, James G....Tags: Hartford County, Library of Congress, Bloomfield (Hartford, Connecticut), Wars and Interventions, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
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CT Race For Cure Hurt By Planned Parenthoood Flap
When the Susan G. Komen Foundationdecided to defund Planned Parenthood earlier this year, the Connecticut affiliate was the only one in the country with the courage to immediately — and publicly — stand up to that stupidity. The Connecticut...Tags: Cancer, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Planned Parenthood, Breast Cancer, Social Issues
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Black-eyed and Blues Fest 2012 takes place this Friday in Hartford's Bushnell Park Pavillion
Friday's going to roll around again, and you've got nothing going on, so head downtown for this year's Black-eyed and Blues Fest, sponsored (as always) by Hartford's premier BBQ joint Black-eyed Sally's. Acts range from Petey Hop and the JackRabbits,...
Tags: Festive Events, Arts and Culture
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The Ultimate List of Summer Festivals in Connecticut
Alive @ 5, Columbus Park, Main St. & W. Park Place, Stamford. (203) 348-5285, Stamford-downtown.com. June 21: Los Lonely Boys. June 28: G. Love & Special Sauce. July 5: Creedence Clearwater Revisited. July 19: Matisyahu. July 19: Hot Chelle Rae. July 26:...
Tags: Jazz (genre), Theater, North Stonington, Nazareth, Norfolk (Litchfield, Connecticut)
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Home, Sweet Home: Picking Your Spots
Diana's Pool One of the must-see attractions in eastern Connecticut is Diana's Pool in Chaplin, along the beautiful Natchaug River. This fishing, kayaking and hiking spot is also popular as a destination because of its sheer beauty. An almost rite of...
Tags: Theater, Wallace Stevens, Housatonic River, Broadway Theater, University of Connecticut
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Dining Review: Rio Grill and Bar in downtown Hartford
Rio Grill and Bar 54 Pratt St., Hartford, (860) 560-2240, riogrillhartford.com The New York Times ran a front-page story recently about the epidemic of obesity in Brazil. In it experts speculated about the different factors contributing to the...
Tags: Overweight, Health, Restaurants, Obesity, Salt
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Best Park
1) Elizabeth Park Hartford has acres of history. We got your Mark Twain, your Harriet Beecher Stowe, your Wallace Stevens, your Samuel Colt, your Thomas Hooker. Major-league cultural shapers all. A somewhat lesser-known light is Frederick Law Olmsted,...
Tags: Mark Twain, Wallace Stevens, Frederick Law Olmsted, West Hartford, Central Park
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