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DFA New Haven

@DFANewHaven

2 years

what people from the rest of the country think people from connecticut are like

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DFA New Haven

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guy who spent his entire quarantine re-painting this queen anne on dwight street, we thank you 🙏🙏

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New Haven after the 1888 blizzard... back in the Good Old Days they always plowed the sidewalks first

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DFA New Haven

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I think about this chart a lot

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The Northeast continues to lose population. How did all of the New England states fare in the latest Census calculations? #RealEstate #Migration #Census

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DFA New Haven

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i was today years old when I discovered there is a renegade relative of Stew Leonard who left CT and started a nearly identical store called "Tom Leonard's" in suburban virginia... it's like being in the metaverse

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ok who did this

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this dramatically cantilevered vacant office building in Naugatuck is the Fallingwater of midcentury commercial architecture in Connecticut's Rust Belt

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3 years

Good morning to all mothers and to radical abolitionist John Brown, born on today's date in Torrington in 1800. He swore an "eternal war with slavery" and got involved in a whole heap of "good trouble." #BOTD #CTFreedomTrail

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DFA New Haven

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Downtown New Haven with no highways, circa 1924

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No Context Brits

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Name a bigger downgrade.

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some memorable depictions of downtown New Haven in the 1970s -- the buildings are recognizable but otherwise another world -- can be found in this wonderful book from 1977

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DFA New Haven

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In honor of @NYTimes naming us as "a place to go" in 2023, here is a recent survey of every time in the last few years the Times discovered, re-discovered and re-re-discovered that "after decades of crime" the "renewed" "New New Haven" is "more than just mozzarella and academics"

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Downtown Hartford, circa 1934

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Today's date in history: July 10, 1800 -- #Connecticut relinquishes all of its remaining claims to the Western Reserve, ceding the lands to the federal government and paving the way for #Ohio statehood. A truly dark day in history that will live in infamy forever. #OTD #History

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DFA New Haven

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Over 800 small businesses were destroyed or displaced by urban renewal in New Haven, mostly in the Oak Street / Legion Avenue neighborhood. They were primarily owned by immigrants. The Ethnic Heritage Center created a map showing the extent of the displacement. #nhv #history

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DFA New Haven

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7 years

Yale School of Architecture students have message for #Trump

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the key to staying in business for 128 years is keeping meticulous track of inventory

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Intersection of State and Chapel, downtown New Haven, circa 1901

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can't stop thinking about this

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the elm city's secular religion captured well in edgewood skate park

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2 years

if Putin tried to invade New Haven, his tanks would be immediately repelled by our formidable anti-tank defense systems...

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DFA New Haven

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2 years

name this band

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1 year

Christmastime on the New Haven Green, December 1938 🎄✝️

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Archaeological investigation of Benedict Arnold's former home site underway in New Haven -- we believe these were the foundations and retaining walls for a secret tunnel where he smuggled goods from the harbor

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DFA New Haven

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That's all, folks: the last movie at Criterion Cinemas in downtown will be shown on October 12. The only movie theater left will be the porno theater in the Annex. Very sad day for cinephiles.

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Queen Elizabeth II on the tarmac at Tweed Airport, New Haven, 1976 #QueenElizabeth #RIP

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My correspondent in Japan reports on a visit to a New Haven-style apizza restaurant in the Nakameguro neighborhood of Tokyo. He said it was a little too chewy but the pizza box alone was worth the 2500 yen. 🍕🇯🇵

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1 year

bored rich people will literally spend $150 million on self-funded vanity campaigns instead of going to therapy

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West Haven - New Haven - East Haven

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Happy #NationalPizzaDay 🍕🍕 from the World HQ

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Bob Stefanowski has written more op-eds since he was rejected by voters in November 2018 than the total number of times he voted in the last 20 years

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as i always say: when you live in New HaVen you are inhabiting a thomas pynchon novel with terrible drivers and excellent pizza

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If you know then you know

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DFA New Haven

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I don't know who needs to hear this but Rosa DeLauro's tenure as Appropriations Chair has ended and New Haven still does not have a monorail

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DFA New Haven

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2 years

What the Farmington Canal looked like during its Era of Neglect (1960s-1990s) versus what it looks like today. Learn more as we celebrate the 'Farmington Canal at 200' throughout this year - 🎊🥳🎉

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The part of the Farmington Canal Trail south of Sherman Avenue in Hamden is the longest section on the entire 80+ mile trail with no cross traffic, no at-grade crossings. Almost 5 miles of interrupted cruising. Beautiful any time of year, spectactular in fall.

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DFA New Haven

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3 years

what people from the rest of the country think people from connecticut are like

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DFA New Haven

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1 year

nah let's do this guy

The Middletown Press

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1 year

Nathan Hale or Noah Webster? Lamont stirs debate over who should be CT state hero

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DFA New Haven

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4 years

Tfw you've successfully excluded all multi-family housing from your town, but then the developers have the temerity to propose housing in the next town over! 😐

DFA New Haven

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4 years

Here you have Greenwich residents complaining about a housing development that is not only NOT in Greenwich, it is not even in Connecticut 🤔

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saw this at the beach and I’m sobbing 😭😭

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New frontiers in "home rule"... Greenwich NIMBYs fight new housing development that is not only *not* in Greenwich, it is in fact *not even in the state of Connecticut*

On the border: New developments in Port Chester could impact Greenwich’s Byram neighborhood

New developments with hundreds of new residential units could pose challenges for traffic...

www.greenwichtime.com

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DFA New Haven

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Construction of Heroes Tunnel on the Wilbur Cross Parkway, circa 1948

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when you're from new haven and you see people eating pineapple pizza

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DFA New Haven

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"Serving... The Great Industrial States of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut"

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DFA New Haven

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4 years

When #ProudBoys came to New Haven in 2017, they were met with paintballs and a giant banner reading "Welcome to Hell." They never came back. 📸: David Sepulveda

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DFA New Haven

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2 years

Farmington Canal Phase IV update: workers are now building the trail through a historic ‘tunnel’ that carried the original canal, later the railroad, beneath Temple Street. When the lighting design is completed, this will be one of the signature segments of the entire FCHT. 😎😎

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Bird's eye view of New Haven waterfront, 1934

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DFA New Haven

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3 years

WELCOME TO NEW HAVEN PRANCER

NPR

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Good news: Prancer, the 13-pound gremlin Chihuahua who hates men and children, and was described as a "vessel for a traumatized Victorian child," has been adopted by a 36-year-old single lesbian in Connecticut.

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Wooster Square, the greatest neighborhood of the greatest small city of the greatest small state in America 🌸🍕 #gscia

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HOW IT STARTED...... HOW IT'S GOING

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DFA New Haven

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DID YOU KNOW: Longtime New Haven Police Lieutenant Ray Hassett played Tigran Jamiro in the original Star Wars? (Bonus trivia: Tigran was also a lieutenant, but in the Rebel Alliance). Happy #StarWarsDay !

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DFA New Haven

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3 years

Pleased to report that Farmington Canal Phase IV construction is set to begin on Monday. Have advocated for this long-overdue project for literally 25% of my life.

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Largest police misconduct settlements in U.S. history: * Baltimore - Freddie Gray: $6.4 million * Louisville - Breonna Taylor: $12.5 million * Minneapolis - George Floyd: $27 million * NEW HAVEN - RANDY COX: $45 MILLION

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The story of New Haven in two images of the Farmington Canal Trail after a snowstorm: Yale section.... Newhallville section

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Devastated to learn that Spring Glen Hardware, one of the last remaining independent hardware stores in greater New Haven, will be closing. The Landino family has been doing business there since 1927. 😥 #hamden

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one of my favs on elm street... why settle for one wraparound porch when you can have two?

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Milo Yiannopoulos' Plan to Wear Native American Costume to Yale Causes Chaos @Nero

Milo Yiannopoulos' Plan to Wear Native American Costume to Yale Causes Chaos

Milo Yiannopoulos has caused a stir on Yale University's campus for his plan to give a lecture in Native American garb.

www.breitbart.com

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who proposed the "hybrid alignment"... Frank Gehry?

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First phase of the State Street road diet project is underway 👏👏. Here a new bike lane will connect to the Farmington Canal at Grove Street; future phases will pedestrianize the entire east side of the median strip.

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3 years

So... the City decided to plow the Farmington Canal Trail in Newhallville, and lo and behold, people immediately began using it again

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1 year

New England stone walls are just hella dope. Two adjacent sections of the same wall can be so different... were they made by different farmers/craftsmen? Did the wall-builder start drinking before his afternoon shift? So many entrancing mysteries

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the teacup flyers have started appearing again around downtown New Haven

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When Abraham Lincoln travelled through New Haven Union Station on today's date in 1860, this is what it looked like. I would give my right arm to have seen in person and gone inside this weird Henry Austin masterpiece (sadly demolished ca. 1879)

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Christmas eve on the New Haven Green, December 24, 1938 🎄✝️

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me whenever someone in New Haven tells me they ordered pizza from Papa John's

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Over the last 60 years New York has studied multiple routes for a potential bridge or tunnel across Long Island Sound to relieve traffic congestion in NYC. I still remain puzzled by the "hybrid alignment."

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Not a Wordle, just the total lack of traffic signal synchronization on any major artery in New Haven... 🟥🟨🟩🟨🟥 🟥🟥🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟥🟥🟥🟨 🟥🟥🟥🟩🟥 🟨🟩🟥🟨🟥

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Former New Haven Republican Town Committee Chairman says he has had enough and is leaving the GOP because of "right-wing ideologues" imposing "primitive concepts of religion"

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Happy 70th birthday 🎉🎂🎁 to Michael Bolton, #BOTD as Michael Bolotin to a Jewish family in New Haven in 1953. As a boy, he lived at different times on Whalley Ave., Elm St. and Ella Grasso Blvd. He started singing at age 13 in hard-rock & heavy metal clubs around New Haven.

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Interesting Soviet military map of infrastructure in the New Haven area, ca. 1981... tag your local ICBM target! 🚀

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Love looking at the LIDAR map of greater New Haven. Yale Bowl is like a lone cheerio floating atop the milky floodplain of central New Haven

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told my real estate agent I wanted "a cute house" on the CT shoreline but she heard "acute house"

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Opened in 1954, Hamden Plaza was one of Greater New Haven's first auto-centric strip malls and in the 1970s became famous for its "Ghost Parking Lot," a deeply ironic and self-referential tribute/entombment for the Auto Age

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Efforts are afoot to save the classic Hamden Plaza sign, which has been removed and could be on the way to the scrapyard. #MiracleMile (📷 Jim Anderson)

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Connecticut, California and Puerto Rico are the only states/territories not currently in the CDC red tier of Covid-19 risk

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The below-grade part of Farmington Canal Phase IV is beginning to take shape. The gate on tunnel has been removed and debris has been cleared so that you can see portions of the original 200-year-old masonry on the canal retaining walls

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Saloon Map of New Haven, circa 1910 (we used to be a proper country etc. etc.)

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still the most iconic mugshot in history

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3 years

6.2 miles from the New Haven Green

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one of the funniest political trolls ever was Connecticut proposing to put tolls on a one-mile section of I-684 that crosses through Greenwich, has no exits in CT, and is used almost exclusively by Westchester commuters

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in case you were wondering it's the end of January and the Christmas tree and menorah are still up on the New Haven Green

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. @JohnFetterman was studying at UConn in the '90s when he got involved with the Boys & Girls Club in New Haven, met an 8 year old boy whose parents were dying from AIDS, became preoccupied by the "random lottery of birth" and decided to devote his career to public service. #pasen

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I've been pretty much everywhere in New Haven but never until today to the bridge-tender's house on top of the Grand Avenue Bridge

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Lamont: "Let's face it: New Haven is the transportation hub of the state." Vows to speed up train service to NYC by "15 to 20 minutes"

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Lamont: the amount of housing built in New Haven in the last 5 years is "amazing." #NHV #YIMBY #YIMBYParadise

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Took some @YaleEnvironment students on an orientation tour this morning. They seemed in disbelief that one of New Haven’s greatest assets, the waterfront and almost our entire inner harbor, is occupied by oil tank farms and fossil fuel infrastructure… #LandUseFail

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Really saddened to see that Tikkaway on Orange has closed. Best fast food option in downtown New Haven. ☹️

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Downtown Bridgeport, circa 1947 (just at the moment when electric trolleys were yielding to internal-combustion buses)

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Next week will be the 15th anniversary of the demolition of the world's greatest entertainment palace

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Got a behind-the-scenes tour of Farmington Canal Phase IV construction including the old rail tunnel section and the new ramp that takes you up to street level at Grove. Hopefully will be fully completed by the end of 2023.

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Mount Carmel railroad station near Sleeping Giant, #Hamden , circa 1900

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Senior citizen has to sit on the curb while waiting for the bus because there isn't a bus shelter and it's a hot, humid day. Note, too, this is the most dangerous road in New Haven for pedestrians.

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Happy #NationalPizzaDay from the man who invented New Haven-style apizza 🍕🎉🍕🎉

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Chapel Street trolleys, circa 1948 (they would all be gone within less than 3 years)

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Drivers already crashing into planter boxes on Yale Avenue… fam, this is why we need protected bike lanes [📷 Johnathon Henninger]

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peabody museum torosaurus: 6'3" 215 lbs

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Little-known young folksinger Bob Dylan (then 19 years old) performing at the Indian Neck Folk Festival in Branford, Conn., May 1961 (📷: Stephen Fenerjian)

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seen in Litchfield County

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Good news for kielbasa fans: the virtually-never-open PolMag Deli on Upper State Street, one of the last vestiges of the time when this was a Polish enclave, will be open 4 days a week this fall to meet all your smoked meat, pierogi, sausage and stuffed cabbage needs