Volume 12, Number 42
Friday, January 10, 2020
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Resident’s film will make world premiere at Sundance festival Tania Grgurich, a clinical associate professor of diagnostic imaging with Quinnipiac University, examines the results of a CT scan of a skull found beneath a Ridgefield home in November 2019. Photos by Devin Leith-Yessian, Record-Journal
Possible Revolutionary War remains studied at QU By Devin Leith-Yessian Record-Journal staff
NORTH HAVEN — Three skeletons found buried beneath a Ridgefield home and believed to be remains of soldiers killed during the Revolutionary War are being analyzed by researchers at Quinnipiac University. “It's still kind of hard for me to wrap my head around this,” said Jerry Conlogue, co-director of the university’s Bioanthropology Research Institute. “This was Robert Lombardo, a Quinnipiac University adjunct someone who was walking professor, helps a student perform an X-ray scan of bones around in Connecticut in the found beneath a Ridgefield home. 1700s. This is their actual bones. To me, that's pretty bodies were historical skele- Battle of Ridgefield in 1777. mind boggling.” tons, State Archeologist Nick Because the remains were The skeletons were found in Bellantoni began exhuming found clustered within 10 late November as the owners the remains. feet of each other, it’s beof the home, which was built Bellantoni had already been lieved that this could be the in 1790, were preparing to mass grave. install a concrete floor in the using ground penetrating radar to search the area for “If the house hadn't been dirt-floor basement. After there and these folks didn't the Office of the Chief Medi- evidence of a mass grave cal Examiner determined the that British soldiers are believed to have dug after the See Remains, A8
HAMDEN – A short film co-directed by North Haven resident Ashley Brandon, assistant professor of film, television and media arts at Quinnipiac University, has been selected to make its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
“The caller ID said, ‘Santa Monica, California,’” she recalled. “I thought it was a spam call because I get them a lot. I also knew that Sundance was going to be calling around that time, so I decided to pick up. It was so exciting. I have dreamed of getting that phone call since I was The film, “Día de la 7 years old and fantasized Madre,” will be screened about what it would be in Sundance’s documenlike. I really did not have a tary short film category reaction because I was so Jan. 23-Feb. 2 in Utah. The shocked.” film is co-directed by Quinnipiac adjunct film “Día de la Madre,” a sixprofessor Dennis Höhne minute documentary shot and produced by Nevo in one day with a $300 Shinaar, Brandon’s classbudget, was filmed on mate at Northwestern Mother’s Day 2019. It feaUniversity. tures young members of the Mariachi Academy of Brandon learned her film New England. had been accepted when a Sundance official called See Sundance, A7 her on Nov. 17.
Quinnipiac University assistant professor of film, TV and media arts Ashley Brandon.