"Hamlet" and Wilder's "The Matchmaker" coming this summer

The Elm City Shakespeare Company is staging "Hamlet" and "The Matchmaker" at Edgerton Park this year. (Both productions were excellent ... cf. shakespeare.mit.edu for full text of Hamlet.)

Yale Rep: "A Woman of No Importance"

"In 1895, the year that saw the debut of Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, the playwright lost everything when he was convicted of “gross indecency” and sentenced to two years in prison. A Woman of No Importance had premiered two years earlier and anticipated the forces that would strike him down. Of British society, he said, “To be in it is merely a bore. To be out of it is simply a tragedy.”"

The Yale Rep production is directed by James Bundy and runs March 21 to April 12, 2008

"Can New Haven Become a Sustainable City?"

F&ES blog posting re program on sustainability in New Haven, October 4, 2007, 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm at the Peabody Museum, 3rd floor.

New Haven Citizens’ Action Network BOA Accountability Project

On flyer left outside our door, aldermanic candidate Cleaven Johnson (Div '98) asks rhetorically: "Did you know Alfreda Edwards voted to raise your taxes?" By way of proof, he offers the New Haven Citizens’ Action Network BOA Accountability Project ...


19th ward alderman candidates for Sept. 11 election:

1. LaMont Moye. MBA from Albertus Magnus. New Haven public school substitute teacher. Proposes: Increased parent involvement in schools, etc.; More summer jobs/afeter school programs; mandatory programs & uniform sentence, NO GOOD TIME, for prison inmates; Community Review Board jurisdiction over redev and zoning in our neighborhoods; better legislation and reduced spending by city government. In 1999 organized First Christian Softball Association in New Haven, in 2006 founded Parent Project 99 (PP99) non-profit group operated by parents in New Haven. Pet project: tracking device in school vans for children with special needs.

2. Cleaven Johnson. MDIV '98. Seems responsible for New Haven Citizens' Action Network flyer: BOA accountability project; provides links on evaluation board of alderman, with emphasis on increase versus decrease in taxes. Main point: "Did you know Alfreda Edwards voted to raise your taxes?" President/CEO of "Last Kingdom Productions"

3. Alfreda Edwards. The incumbant. Doesn't seem to be campaigning much if at all.

Jon's visit

NYC

Check room availability at Hotel Newton. Oops, no vacancies. Days Inn? Check AJAXed NYC subway map (very slow) and best stops for Natural History Musuem (1 or 9 to W. 79th) and Birdland (1, 2, or 3 to Times Sq., then S, then 2 blcks N to 44th) and hotel (1, 2, or 3 to 96th). Sunday night at Birdland is Chico O'Farrill Big Band, led by Arturo O'Farrill. See review in New York Sun.

Loreley

Home http://www.recipesfromhome.com/

Dumont http://dumontrestaurant.com/

Dresslers http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/dressler/index.html

Prune http://www.menupages.com/restaurantdetails.asp?neighborhoodid=0&restaurantid=2526

Bonita (a bit cheaper, but good) http://www.freewilliamsburg.com/restaurants/archives/2005/03/_bonita.html

Back in New Haven ...

Check out Info New Haven.

Now that Kahn Building is restored and reopened, need to visit the Yale Art Gallery (T-Sa, 10-5). Also, Criterion Theater, Center for British Art (current exhibit: Howard Hodgkin), Peabody Museum, worth visiting.

Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station worth visiting? No special events on top. Some reports published on their web site. Receive soil samples for pH analysis. Not sure what else they do. Open 8:30-4:30 M-F, but closed Mon., Feb. 12th, for Lincoln's BD.

Urban Renewal?

Came across this document by G. William Domhoff on the UCSC Sociology Department's web site: Who Rules America: Who Really Ruled in Dahl's New Haven? Dahl's book was published in 1961, and seems to have captured the optimism of "urban renewal" that turned New Haven into a so-called "All-American City". Domhoff wrote his piece in September 2005, and so knows how things actually turned out: "Yale and its faculty members are islands of increasing privilege and isolation in a sea of misery," he writes. He cites a 2002 eyewitness account from the Manchester Observer, describing a tent village that had been set up on the New Haven Green following the closure of a homeless shelter. New Haven had by 2002 become the nation's 4th poorest city, the paper reported, even though it included Yale with an endowment worth $11 billion, and was situated in Connecticut, the nation's wealthiest state. According to Domhoff, Dahl had argued that Yale and the city's business elite were relatively helpless bystanders as politicians carried out the ill-fated urban renewal program. Domhoff re-analyzed the data, however, and found that Yale had tremendous influence. This was due, in no small part, to Prescott Bush's having been at the same time a trustee of the university and a member of the Senate Urban Renewal committee. Domhoff describes various ways in which Yale, along with local business interests, determined the course (and eventual failure) of the city's attempt at self-renewal. Fortunately, there are a few bright spots on the horizon. Certain parts of downtown (i.e., Ninth Square, Broadway, Chapel St.) have indeed bounced back. Let's hope this latest burst of renewal reaches beyond Yale's backyard and brings with it lasting employment and prosperity.

Addison van Name

Trying to track down Addison van Name paper cited in "Proceedings of the Thousands Islands Conference of the ALA", published in Library Journal vol. 12, 1887, and cited recently by Judy Schiff. Yale copies of Library Journal don't go back far enough. Periodicals Index Online gives me a sufficiently detailed record to make an ILL request.

Grove St.

[2006-06-07] Missed Nooks and Crannies tour, but still want to visit the Center Church Crypt at some point. Some highlights from the Crypt home page: Theophilus Eaton (who's tabular stone is at Grove, Benedict Arnold's first wife Margaret, a few members of President Rutherford Hayes' family, Sarah Whiting, 1669-1726, “The painful mother of eight children of whom six survive.” She was described as “faithful, virtuous and weary.” For more information, see Bicentennial Publication (swf)


[2005-04-20]
Posted review of Curtis Patton talk on Diversity Blog.

[2005-08-20]
Keeping track of notes on Pantheon page.

[2005-08-02]
Aug. 2nd AP article on Japanese students visiting Dartmouth and Yale to learn about Kanichi Asakawa. Some details here I hadn't heard before, for example, "Asakawa translated the centuries-old 'Documents of Iriki,' which allowed English scholars to study Japanese feudal history. He donated 45,000 volumes of Japanese texts to the Library of Congress and more than 21,000 to Yale, forming the foundation of their Japanese collections."

Grove Street Cemetery home page, and list of notables with map.

[2005-05-27]

Note listings in Explore Connecticut Guide; also see Connecticut Sons of the American Revolution for list of patriots. Familiar names include Roger Sherman, David Humphreys, Israel Putman, and Nathan Hale.

Categories: Grove_Street_Cemetery, New_Haven, Yale

[2004-11-20]

Leonard Bacon Program with papers by Judith Schiff, David Musto, Howard Lamar, et al.

[2004-10-16]
Grove Street notables per Wikipedia(?) Would be good to develop Amistad thread, in context of larger discussion of abolitionism. (Primary documents are available through National Archives and Records Administration.) New Haven connection to events of 1839/1840 is compelling: Mende captives held in New Haven jail; New Haven resident Roger Sherman Baldwin was defense attorney (along with John Quincy adams once it got to the Supreme Court);

[2004-10-17]

Based on conversatons with members of the West Haven Historical Society (during today's tour led by Jim Niedermeyer), it sounds like I might be invited to talk with them about the Anatomy Riot of 1824(considering whence Bathsheba Smith's body was stolen).

The Medical School had an historical exhibition for Yale's Tercentennial celebrations in 2001. Portraits of Dwight, Smith, Stiles, et al., are included.

2004-10-15
Constitution Timeline (LC) with links to digitized broadsides. Here's John Trumbull's depiction of the signing of the Constitution



Here's an article recommended by Patricia Illingworth (12/1/03): Yellow Fever in New Haven, 1794 The Yellow and Scarlet fever epidemics in New Haven were part of what prompted James Hillhouse to propose and develop the Grove Street Cemetery.

Many of the instriptions on pre-1800 GSC monuments are illegible. Fortunately, many of them have been transcribed.

Here is a transcript of the poem Sachem's Wood, written by James Abraham Hillhouse, son of Senator James Hillhouse, in New Haven, 1838.

10/14/04
Tomb With A View's Guide to Gravestone Symbols

Connecticut Museums Open House Day

[2006-06-09]
Haruka mentioned that June 10th, 2006 is Connecticut Open House Day for museums, parks, etc. New Haven Museum and Historical Society, for example, has free admission through 5pm, Fair Haven Furniture has "complimentary refreshments".

Live Theater in New Haven

2006-04-21

Renew subscription (2006-2007) for Long Wharf Theatre? Deadline for preferred rate is April 29th. Mainstage Package is 4 plays, targeted to the "Enthusiast - loves blockbuster hits and the social scene, expects excellence" and includes the plays: Rocket to the Moon, The Cocktail Hour, Man of La Mancha, TBA", and costs "Ranging from $102 - $194*"

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Check availability for Brundibar. According to Yale Rep Performance Calendar there's a 2pm performance on Sunday March 5th.

Brazzis is clostest restaurant to Long Wharf for dinner before After the Quake. Call 498-2488 t to make 5:45 reservations.


[2005-11-19]
Playing on Long Wharf main stage through November 20, 2005. Frank Rizzo wrote a review for Variety.com.E. Kyle Minor in CTCentral.com didn't like it; but some people in TownTalk discussion boardcertainly did (e.g., "Tristan" wrote, "The night I was there, the audience - without hesitation - stood up as one for a rousing standing ovation.")

2005 New Haven Jazz Festival

2005 New Haven Jazz Festival. Ramsey Lewis Trio is August 20. Listen to sound clips here.

Costume Bazaar

Largest selection of costumes in New Haven area may be Costume Bazaar on 1593 State Street (New Haven). Unfortunately, they're still on summer hours, which are M-F, 9:30-4:30; and closed Sa-Su. Phone: 787-3600.

Paul Bass and Douglas Rae: "Eminent Disdain"

Op-Ed contribution from Paul Bass and Douglas Rae on last month's ill-conceived recent Supreme Court decision. The City of New London is being allowed to re-develop a 90-acre neighborhood, removing current residents and shopkeepers to make room for office space, hotel, and conference center. This brings back bad memories for those who lived through New Haven's "urban renewal"in the 1950s. Meant to improve the city's quality of life, the long-term consequences were catastrophic. According to the authors, "In 1970, as urban renewal ended, the census ranked New Haven the 38th-poorest city in America. Ten years later, it was ranked seventh, with 23.2 percent of its population living below the poverty line. Today, more than a quarter of the city's families live in subsidized housing. So much for combating poverty."

Larson Place

Larson Place, Hamden, Connecticut for "senior living", 1450 Whitney Ave. Hamden, Connecticut 06517 Telephone:248-8880 on hill overlooking a scenic reservoir. Norma is in room 108 in Pathways section, and many not yet have private phone line. Categories: Mom

Firehouse 12

Jazz recording studio in New Haven is also performance space: Firehouse 12, at 47 Crown Street. July 8, 2005 performance by Categories: jazz

Bally Hamden

Bally Total Fitness | Clubs

New Haven traffic webcams

ConnDOT: Connecticut Traffic Cameras:

Farnam Guest House

Prospect Street bed-and-breakfast Farnam Guest House, built in 1934 in Georgian Colonial style, currently operated by Anthony and Elizabeth Lopez. According to history page, original occupant New Haven railroad magnate Henry Farnam (1803-1883). Son Henry Walcott Farnham professor of political economics at Yale, instrumental in preserving 1750 Connecticut Hall. Other family members donated "Farnham Gardens" to city. Listed in bedandbreakfast.com. Rates from $90 to $125 per night.

JC New Haven

JC of Greater New Haven

New Haven Restaurants

YMG Guide to New Haven - Restaurants