Cruisin' Connecticut: Gingerbread House Festival in South Windsor
If you're looking for some family fun this holiday season, here's a sweet trip to consider: the Gingerbread House Festival at the Wood Library and Museum In South Windsor.
Native American Project
The Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development has chosen The Wood Memorial Library and Museum to receive $75,000 in funding through its pilot Good to Great Program designed for small to mid size non-profit cultural organizations. DECD received 46 applications from 29 towns and of those, 20 projects were recommended for award by the Culture and Tourism Advisory Committee and the Commissioner, Wood’s project being one of them. The funding comes with a matching cash requirement.
The Wood’s grant proposal, written and submitted by Board President Virginia Macro, focuses on the installation of a small Native American village on a c. ¾ acre parcel of land behind the library building. The project includes the construction of wigwams, ethno-botanical plantings and landscaping along with interpretive signs for self-guided tours of the area and enhanced interpretative materials for Wood’s existing Native American exhibits. Currently, a small makeshift frame of a wigwam exists, but can only be used in fair weather and is not big enough for anyone to enter. Transforming the area into a village setting, with wigwams large enough to sit in, will add a realistic element to understanding the Native American experience and an opportunity to connect artifacts to how life was lived at the time.
“The re-creation of a Podunk village behind the library would transform a visitor’s experience from one of having a vague impression of what life might have been like, to one of feeling the atmosphere of living in a wigwam,” says Macro. “That slight shift in one’s perception of space and time makes an enormous difference. Being able to offer that immersive experience, not as a visitor in a museum looking at a Podunk village but by becoming an actor in it, will afford a deeper appreciation of Native American ingenuity in their day-to-day life.”
The Wood’s prime location, situated adjacent to the South Windsor meadows on the original Podunk Path and a stone’s throw from the site of Adrian Block’s first encounter with the indigenous population, provides the perfect environment for Native American programming. The tribes who lived for centuries along the Connecticut River, left traces of their existence in the meadows they called home making South Windsor a fertile source of Native American artifacts. Many of those artifacts have found their way into the museum’s collections and for over forty years The Wood has offered lectures and hands-on programs for children and adults on the life ways of Northeast Woodland Tribes based on those artifacts.
“Our overall intent in regard to our Native American programming is to provide an accurate portrayal of the Podunk and River tribes that lived along the Connecticut River,” says Executive Director, David Langone. “We feel that this funding and the creation of a Native American village will bring us closer to achieving that objective.”
Sam & Elizabeth Colt's Legend & Legacy by William Hosley
Sam and Elizabeth: The Legend & Legacy of Colt’s Empire;
the epic romance, the epic times, and the epic lives” was the Fe b. 11 2016 program of the South Windsor Historical Society.
Guest speaker Bill Hosley (hosley.terrafirma@gmail.com)notes, “Sam and Elizabeth Colt, more than any couple in the history of Connecticut's capital city, changed the course of history--he by developing a model of industrial technology that changed the world of work. She, through countless acts of civic leadership and philanthropy. The Colts' story mirrors and shaped the transformation of Hartford from a center of trade and government in a small agrarian economy to an international powerhouse in industry and finance.”
“Sam and Elizabeth: The Legend & Legacy of Colt’s Empire” was held at Wood Memorial Library & Museum, 783 Main St., South Windsor,.. Admission was $5 ($3 for members). It traces the rise of Colt's Armory and the firearms and machine tool industries. After his death at the age of 47, Colt's empire was inherited and controlled by Elizabeth for the next 40 years. Her interests in art, architecture, religion, social services, and civic harmony gave her a leading role in public life.
Hosley, now a principal of Terra Firma Northeast, has 30 years experience as a curator, collector, preservationist, and museum director. He is an authority on Samuel and Elizabeth Colt and Hartford history. He has written numerous books and articles and has lectured all over the United States on topics ranging from art and Americana to urbanism, place-making, and historic preservation.
His former affiliations include the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, Historic Deerfield, Winterthur Museum, Wadsworth Atheneum, Connecticut Landmarks, and New Haven Museum. He also founded Historic Hartford, Inc., and was the co-founder of the Greater Hartford Arts Council’s Arts & Heritage Action Partnership. He has presented programs on a variety of subject for organizations throughout New England, including several at the East Windsor, Windsor, and Enfield Historical Societies. video by ROBERT JAMES ELLIS ENJOYTODAYTOO@YAHOO.COM
Cruisin’ Connecticut – Gingerbread House Festival Family Fun
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Maloof Symposium: Furniture and the Future - Session 1
This symposium will examine historical and contemporary furniture production in light of the fundamental changes brought about by the digital age. Today, the field of studio furniture is changing rapidly to embrace digital technologies and marketplaces. The pressure to keep up with these advances can prevent artists and makers from reflecting on what this means for the craft. Presented jointly by the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery and the Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation, this one-day symposium in celebration of Sam Maloof’s centennial birth year will examine historical and contemporary furniture production in light of the fundamental changes brought about by the digital age.
Symposium Schedule - Session 1
9:00 a.m. - Continental Breakfast (Please note the galleries will not be open at this time)
10:00 a.m. - Welcome
Nora Atkinson, Lloyd Herman Curator at the Renwick Gallery, and Jim Rawitsch, Executive Director of the Maloof Foundation
10:15 a.m. - Keynote by Dr Michael J. Prokopow
11:00 a.m. - Paul Sacaridiz, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
11:45 a.m. - Witold Rybczynski, author Now I Sit Me Down
Program made possible by the generous support of the James Renwick Alliance, the Windgate Foundation, and Woodcraft Supply.
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New Haven, Connecticut | Wikipedia audio article
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New Haven, Connecticut
00:01:56 1 History
00:02:05 1.1 Pre-colonial foundation as an independent colony
00:04:37 1.2 As part of the Connecticut Colony
00:07:16 1.3 Post-colonial period and industrialization
00:10:08 1.4 Post-industrial era and urban redevelopment
00:15:32 1.5 Timeline of notable firsts
00:18:05 2 Geography
00:19:48 2.1 Climate
00:21:15 2.2 Streetscape
00:22:39 2.3 Neighborhoods
00:23:34 3 Economy
00:25:13 3.1 Headquarters
00:26:57 4 Demographics
00:27:06 4.1 Census data
00:30:31 4.2 Other data
00:31:46 5 Law and Government
00:31:55 5.1 Political structure
00:34:18 5.2 Political history
00:39:29 5.3 Crime
00:41:08 6 Education
00:41:17 6.1 Colleges and universities
00:42:17 6.2 Primary and secondary schools
00:43:28 6.3 New Haven Promise
00:44:12 7 Culture
00:44:21 7.1 Cuisine
00:48:38 7.2 Theatre and film
00:50:12 7.3 Museums
00:52:03 7.4 Music
00:53:47 7.5 Festivals
00:55:01 7.6 Nightlife
00:55:37 7.7 Newspapers and media
00:56:47 7.8 Sports and athletics
01:00:00 8 Structures
01:00:09 8.1 Architecture
01:02:26 8.2 Historic points of interest
01:07:20 9 Transportation
01:07:29 9.1 Rail
01:09:16 9.2 Bus
01:10:58 9.3 Bicycle
01:11:07 9.3.1 Bikeshare
01:11:46 9.3.2 Bike lanes
01:12:48 9.3.3 Farmington Canal Greenway
01:13:35 9.4 Roads
01:16:27 9.5 Airport
01:17:07 9.6 Seaport
01:18:12 10 Infrastructure
01:18:21 10.1 Hospitals and medicine
01:20:32 10.2 Power supply facilities
01:22:26 11 In popular culture
01:23:53 12 Notable people
01:24:02 13 Sister cities
01:24:51 14 See also
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New Haven is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound in New Haven County, Connecticut, and is part of the New York metropolitan area. With a population of 129,779 as determined by the 2010 United States Census, it is the second-largest city in Connecticut after Bridgeport. New Haven is the principal municipality of Greater New Haven, which had a total population of 862,477 in 2010.New Haven was the first planned city in America. Founded in 1638 by English Puritans, a year later eight streets were laid out in a four-by-four grid, creating what is commonly known as the Nine Square Plan. The central common block is the New Haven Green, a 16-acre (6 ha) square, and the center of Downtown New Haven. The Green is now a National Historic Landmark and the Nine Square Plan is recognized by the American Planning Association as a National Planning Landmark.New Haven is the home of Yale University. As New Haven's biggest taxpayer and employer, Yale serves as an integral part of the city's economy. Health care (hospitals and biotechnology), professional services (legal, architectural, marketing, and engineering), financial services, and retail trade also contribute to the city's economic activity.
The city served as co-capital of Connecticut from 1701 until 1873, when sole governance was transferred to the more centrally located city of Hartford. New Haven has since billed itself as the Cultural Capital of Connecticut for its supply of established theaters, museums, and music venues. New Haven had the first public tree planting program in America, producing a canopy of mature trees (including some large elms) that gave New Haven the nickname The Elm City.
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The Works Progress Administration was the largest and most ambitious New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. In a much smaller but more famous project, the Federal Project Number One, the WPA employed musicians, artists, writers, actors and directors in large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects.
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Brooklyn () is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017. Named after the Dutch village of Breukelen, it borders the borough of Queens, at the western end of Long Island. Brooklyn also has several bridge connections to the boroughs of Manhattan (across the East River) and Staten Island (across the Verrazano Narrows Bridge). Since 1896, the borough has been coterminous with Kings County, the most populous county in the U.S. state of New York and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, after the county of New York (which is coextensive with the borough of Manhattan).With a land area of 71 square miles (180 km2) and water area of 26 square miles (67 km2), Kings County is New York's fourth-smallest county by land area and third-smallest by total area, though it is the second-largest among the city's five boroughs. Today, if New York City dissolved, Brooklyn would rank as the third-most populous city in the U.S. after Los Angeles and Chicago.
Brooklyn was an independent incorporated city (and previously an authorized village and town within the provisions of the New York State Constitution) until January 1, 1898, when, after a long political campaign and public relations battle during the 1890s, according to the new Municipal Charter of Greater New York, Brooklyn was consolidated with the other cities, boroughs, and counties to form the modern City of New York, surrounding the Upper New York Bay with five constituent boroughs. The borough continues, however, to maintain a distinct culture. Many Brooklyn neighborhoods are ethnic enclaves. Brooklyn's official motto, displayed on the Borough seal and flag, is Eendraght Maeckt Maght, which translates from early modern Dutch as Unity makes strength.
In the first decades of the 21st century, Brooklyn has experienced a renaissance as an avant garde destination for hipsters, with concomitant gentrification, dramatic house price increases, and a decrease in housing affordability. Since 2010, Brooklyn has evolved into a thriving hub of entrepreneurship and high technology startup firms, and of postmodern art and design.
Gothic Revival architecture | Wikipedia audio article
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Gothic Revival architecture
00:02:08 1 Roots
00:04:18 2 Survival and revival
00:10:48 2.1 Decorative
00:13:14 3 Romanticism and nationalism
00:23:00 4 Gothic as a moral force
00:23:10 4.1 Pugin and truth in architecture
00:25:24 4.2 Ruskin and Venetian Gothic
00:26:24 4.3 Ecclesiology and funerary style
00:29:07 5 Viollet-le-Duc and Iron Gothic
00:31:23 6 Collegiate Gothic
00:32:22 7 Vernacular adaptations
00:35:01 8 20th century
00:37:20 9 Appreciation
00:39:12 10 Details of architectural elements
00:39:35 11 Gallery
00:39:44 11.1 Asia
00:39:52 11.2 Europe
00:40:00 11.3 North America
00:40:09 11.4 South America
00:40:17 11.5 Australia and New Zealand
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Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. Its popularity grew rapidly in the early 19th century, when increasingly serious and learned admirers of neo-Gothic styles sought to revive medieval Gothic architecture, in contrast to the neoclassical styles prevalent at the time. Gothic Revival draws features from the original Gothic style, including decorative patterns, finials, lancet windows, hood moulds and label stops.
The Gothic Revival movement emerged in 18th-century England, gaining ground in the 19th. Its roots were intertwined with deeply philosophical movements associated with Catholicism and a re-awakening of High Church or Anglo-Catholic belief concerned by the growth of religious nonconformism. Ultimately, the Anglo-Catholicism tradition of religious belief and style became widespread for its intrinsic appeal in the third quarter of the 19th century. Gothic Revival architecture varied considerably in its faithfulness to both the ornamental style and principles of construction of its medieval original, sometimes amounting to little more than pointed window frames and a few touches of Gothic decoration on a building otherwise on a wholly 19th-century plan and using contemporary materials and construction methods.
In parallel to the ascendancy of neo-Gothic styles in 19th-century England, interest spread rapidly to the continent of Europe, in Australia, Sierra Leone, South Africa and to the Americas; the 19th and early 20th centuries saw the construction of very large numbers of Gothic Revival and Carpenter Gothic structures worldwide. The influence of the Revival had nevertheless peaked by the 1870s. New architectural movements, sometimes related as in the Arts and Crafts movement, and sometimes in outright opposition, such as Modernism, gained ground, and by the 1930s the architecture of the Victorian era was generally condemned or ignored. The later 20th century saw a revival of interest, manifested in the United Kingdom by the establishment of the Victorian Society in 1958.
Trenton, New Jersey | Wikipedia audio article
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Trenton, New Jersey
00:02:07 1 History
00:04:27 1.1 Riots of 1968
00:06:11 2 Geography
00:08:10 2.1 Panoramic views
00:08:19 2.2 Neighborhoods
00:11:17 2.3 Climate
00:14:54 3 Demographics
00:15:19 3.1 2010 Census
00:18:53 3.2 2000 Census
00:21:54 4 Economy
00:23:18 4.1 Urban Enterprise Zone
00:23:44 4.2 Television market
00:24:18 5 Arts and culture
00:26:39 6 Sports
00:28:19 7 Parks and recreation
00:28:38 7.1 Historic sites
00:29:27 8 Government
00:29:36 8.1 Local government
00:30:10 8.1.1 Mayor and Council
00:30:48 8.1.2 Interim mayor 2014
00:31:17 8.1.3 Mayor's conviction and removal from office
00:32:35 8.2 Federal, state and county representation
00:35:25 8.3 Politics
00:38:41 9 Fire department
00:39:29 10 Education
00:39:38 10.1 Colleges and universities
00:40:20 10.2 Public schools
00:43:07 10.3 Charter schools
00:44:04 10.4 Private schools
00:44:52 11 Crime
00:46:27 11.1 New Jersey State Prison
00:47:25 12 Transportation
00:47:34 12.1 Roads and highways
00:48:58 12.2 Public transportation
00:51:04 13 Media
00:51:51 14 Notable people
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Trenton is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Jersey and the county seat of Mercer County. It was briefly the capital of the United States. The city's metropolitan area is grouped with the New York metropolitan area by the United States Census Bureau, but directly borders the Philadelphia metropolitan area and is part of the Philadelphia Combined Statistical Area and the Federal Communications Commission's Philadelphia Designated Market Area. As of the 2010 United States Census, Trenton had a population of 84,913, making it the state's 10th-most-populous municipality. The Census Bureau estimated that the city's population was 84,034 in 2014.Trenton dates back at least to June 3, 1719, when mention was made of a constable being appointed for Trenton, while the area was still part of Hunterdon County. Boundaries were recorded for Trenton Township as of March 2, 1720, a courthouse and jail were constructed in Trenton around 1720 and the Freeholders of Hunterdon County met annually in Trenton. Trenton became New Jersey's capital as of November 25, 1790, and the City of Trenton was formed within Trenton Township on November 13, 1792. Trenton Township was incorporated as one of New Jersey's initial group of 104 townships by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798. On February 22, 1834, portions of Trenton Township were taken to form Ewing Township. The remaining portion of Trenton Township was absorbed by the City of Trenton on April 10, 1837. A series of annexations took place over a 50-year period, with the city absorbing South Trenton borough (April 14, 1851), portions of Nottingham Township (April 14, 1856), both the Borough of Chambersburg Township and Millham Township (both on March 30, 1888), as well as Wilbur Borough (February 28, 1898). Portions of Ewing Township and Hamilton Township were annexed to Trenton on March 23, 1900.
Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)
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Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, it is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the U.S. and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution.At its foundation, Brown was the first college in the U.S. to accept students regardless of their religious affiliation. Its engineering program was established in 1847. It was one of the early doctoral-granting U.S. institutions in the late 19th century, adding masters and doctoral studies in 1887. In 1969, Brown adopted a New Curriculum sometimes referred to as the Brown Curriculum after a period of student lobbying. The New Curriculum eliminated mandatory general education distribution requirements, made students the architects of their own syllabus and allowed them to take any course for a grade of satisfactory or unrecorded no-credit. In 1971, Brown's coordinate women's institution, Pembroke College, was fully merged into the university; Pembroke Campus now includes dormitories and classrooms used by all of Brown.
Undergraduate admissions is highly selective, with an acceptance rate of 7.2% for the class of 2022. The university comprises the College, the Graduate School, Alpert Medical School, the School of Engineering, the School of Public Health and the School of Professional Studies (which includes the IE Brown Executive MBA program). Brown's international programs are organized through the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, and the university is academically affiliated with the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Rhode Island School of Design. The Brown/RISD Dual Degree Program, offered in conjunction with the Rhode Island School of Design, is a five-year course that awards degrees from both institutions.
Brown's main campus is located in the College Hill Historic District in the city of Providence, Rhode Island. The University's neighborhood is a federally listed architectural district with a dense concentration of Colonial-era buildings. Benefit Street, on the western edge of the campus, contains one of the finest cohesive collections of restored seventeenth- and eighteenth-century architecture in the United States.As of August 2018, 8 Nobel Prize winners have been affiliated with Brown University as alumni, faculty members or researchers. In addition, Brown's faculty and alumni include five National Humanities Medalists and ten National Medal of Science laureates. Other notable alumni include eight billionaire graduates, a U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, four U.S. Secretaries of State and other Cabinet officials, 54 members of the United States Congress, 56 Rhodes Scholars, 52 Gates Cambridge Scholars 49 Marshall Scholars, 14 MacArthur Genius Fellows, 21 Pulitzer Prize winners, various royals and nobles, as well as leaders and founders of Fortune 500 companies.