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In Your Face WEST HAVEN — A quick-on-her-toes employee gave a would-be robber a faceful of heat instead of a fistful of cash.

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The study found 19 percent of children under age 18 in New Haven County were living below the poverty line, compared with seven percent Tolland County. Also 27 percent of New Haven County residents over age 20 were found to be obese, compared to 23 percent in Tolland.

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NEW HAVEN — Yale graduate students may have gotten far with their book smarts, but that doesn’t necessarily translate to bathroom know-how.

As we saw Paul Giamatti walking down Broadway this week it made us think about actors who came from or currently call the New Haven area home.

Paul Giamatti Now an Academy Award-nominated actor known for his roles in films like “Sideways,” “Private Parts,” and “American Splendor,” Giamatti was born and raised in New Haven, and spent his undergrad and graduate years at Yale University. He just completed a nearly month-long sold-out run at the Yale Repertory Theatre playing Hamlet, and according to the Internet Movie Database, has 11 movies in the works, including “The Amazing Spider-Man 2.”

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Such is apparently the case at Helen Hadley Hall (HHH), a grad student dorm that houses predominantly international students. The Ivy Gate blog reported, based on an e-mail sent from Yale’s Graduate Housing Office to HHH residents, that the dorm has experienced some unsightly sanitary practices including feces smeared on walls, questionable hygienic practices, and the presence of chamber pots.

The ruggedly handsome Bruno brothers Chris and Dylan hail from Milford and have a load of TV and film experience under their belts. Chris is best known for roles in the series “The Dead Zone,” “NCIS,” and the soap opera “All My Children.” He has two projects in the works, TV series “Family Tools,” and the film “A Remarkable Life.” Dylan is known for his role in the series “Numb3rs” and shows such as “Grey’s Anatomy,” and “Sex, Love & Secrets,” as well as the films “Saving Private Ryan,” and “The One.” JAQUES PÉPIN FOOD FOR THOUGHT

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Jacques Pépin of Madison has been cooking for nearly all of his 77 years.

At age five he was in the kitchen of his mother’s restaurant. At 13 he began his formal career as a chef apprentice. By his late teens he was preparing meals for French President Charles de Gaulle.

Pépin came to America at the end of the 1950s, just as a new appreciation for fine food was manifesting itself at tables in New York. As a newly arrived immigrant and young man he soon found himself at the center of it.

Today, after authoring 27 cookbooks and appearing for more than 25 years on public television including a well loved series with another legendary chef, Julia Child, Pépin is a seminal figure in food culture in the U.S. Nevertheless, he says he remains, above all, a cook, a chef and a teacher. Published last fall, his most recent book, Jacques Pépin: New Complete Techniques, takes him fullcircle as he recreates his first efforts to teach the basics he began learning more than six decades ago. NHM Publisher Mitchell Young interviewed Pépin for ONE2ONE.

When and why did you first come to America?

I don’t say for no reason, but certainly everyone wanted to come to America then. When I was a kid, American was jazz and all of that stuff. After the war, it was the Golden Fleece, the El Dorado.

I worked in Paris and I said, ‘I’ll go to America, learn the language, live a couple years and come back.’

Contrary to most people who come to America, they come because of the economic condition, for a better life, or because of religious or political reasons or gender, one reason or another. I didn’t have any of this. I worked in Paris. My

parents had a restaurant in Lyon but I wanted to come to America and stay for a while.

When did you arrive?

I came to New York in September 1959. After I was here for a year, I loved it and I never went back.

You went to college here — Columbia. But you weren’t really college age, were you?

I had been the chef for the president of France from ‘56 to ’59.

I was already 11 years in my career professionally. I left home when I was 13 years old to go and form an apprenticeship. But home was actually a restaurant where my mother was a chef. So from age five, six I was in the kitchen all the time.

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I wanted to further my education.

It was the first time I worked one shift rather than two shifts. In Paris you work 8:30 in the morning to two o’clock in the afternoon. We have a cut ‘til 5:30 [p.m.] and we start at 5:30 ‘til ten [p.m.]. Here at the Pavillon where I started [I worked] one shift, so I had time [to attend classes]. I came on a student boat, it was like 1,200 students coming back from Russia and all over Europe. Onboard, I met a teacher of literature and he spoke French. My English was pretty bad at the time.

I asked what was the best school in New York, and he said Columbia University. I had never heard of it, but within a week I took the subway up [to Morningside Heights] and registered for English for foreign students.

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I heard all of those names in France, from Voltaire to Rousseau. I studied for my own gratification. I was a chef; I knew this [cooking] was what I was going to do. I did a master’s [degree] and almost did a Ph.D. except for [completing] my thesis. It was on the history of food within the context of literature. This is what I teach at BU [Boston University] for the past 20 years. Now it is widely accepted. At the time they told me, ‘Are you crazy?’

In your family the chefs were women. But we typically think of the ‘French chef’ as a male.

It is a misconception. There are 138,000 restaurants in France. Most people — [including] many people in my family, a family of restaurateurs — have never been to a three-star restaurant. Many of the great chefs came to this country in the ‘70s, and to American people that’s what French cooking is. Those [chefs] are mostly men, although now there are a few women. I can count eight restaurants in my family in Lyon and in Paris. They were all [owned and operated] by my aunt and cousins — all female.

Your father was a cabinetmaker. Why didn’t you become a cabinetmaker, too?

The excitement [of restaurants]. At that point we had blinders; you did what your family did.

There was no television, no magazines. I had no thought I could become a doctor or a lawyer — something totally outside the range of what my family was all about. It was easier for young people to decide than it is now. It was my aunt, my cousins [in the restaurant business] — more exciting than the cabinet business. Although I liked to do [woodworking] — I made that table [gestures to the table in his studio kitchen] — I do a lot of work with my hands. At that point the cook was at the bottom of the social scale. You had your place — behind the stove.

Yes, but as a very young person you became chef for the president of France, Charles de Gaulle. How did you get that job?

It wasn’t as prestigious as you may think. I was working at some of the great restaurants in Paris, and then I was called into the navy. It was during the Algerian war [1954-62], we were supposed to [serve] for 18 months. I did my boot camp in the southwest of France, and I was marked to go to Algeria. But my older brother was there at the time, and they didn’t call two [brothers] to be drafted at the same time. You had to wait for one to come back to send the other. I was at the

headquarters of the navy in Paris and they put me in for the admiral. Then a friend came and he was cooking for the minister of the treasury and he said he never worked in Paris in a big [restaurant] like me — ‘I would really like if you can give me a hand.’ They liked me and he eventually left and I became the chef there and that [person] became the prime minister of France. De Gaulle came to Paris in 1958. At that time the government was changing at a rapid pace. I ended up working in three governments.

So how did it work? Would he call downstairs for a sandwich?

With de Gaulle, on Monday I would [review] the menu with Madame de Gaulle for the week and go to the market and do my thing. The Sunday meal with the family children, grandchildren, eight, ten people it was what they liked to eat. When it came to state dinners, then the protocol comes in. I served Eisenhower, Nehru, Tito. The protocol would come in and I would suggest a menu and they would say, ‘No, that’s too long. It can’t be more than an hour and half.’

Did that all go to your head?

No. As I said, the chef was very low on the social scale. If anyone came into the kitchen, it was because something was wrong

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So in America you were a food ‘pioneer.’ Did it seem as though you were entering new territory?

With your 20/20 hindsight you look at what happened in the last half-century — an amazing revolution in the food world and the position of the chef and all of that. But those changes did not happen overnight. It was very gradual and you don’t even realize it. And maybe I am an existentialist, but I feel that in life you do one thing, which projects you in another thing, which projects you forward and your life eventually designs itself. At the time I had no master plan. I worked here, I worked there. It was interesting, it was different. I didn’t have a wife or a kid, I didn’t have anyone to support,

You’ve been married 47 years now. When did you first meet your wife?

Italian, German, French, Swiss — Spanish, even.

How did a French chef come to work for Howard Johnson?

Howard Johnson was a family restaurant with table service with waitresses all dressed up. He was one of the clients of the Papillion and he used to talk to Pierre Franey, executive chef at the time. And he would say, ‘You’re going to work for me one day.’ And that’s what we did: We left

Yes, and she was in the ski patrol, which she didn’t tell me [laughs]. When I came in 1959 the food world was so small. In 1960 I met Craig Claiborne, who was the food critic of the New York Times. He was just starting and he became a great mentor and someone who I admire extremely. He came to the Pavillon and we became friends. He introduced me to Helen McCully, the food editor of McCall’s and House Beautiful. She wasn’t married and didn’t have any kids and she became my surrogate mother.

She would say, ‘Don’t wear those stupid socks,’ ‘You’re not in France,’ ‘Don’t do this, don’t do that. Go to school,’ and so forth.

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At that point no one had met her, she had never done a book, she had never done television. At that time, Helen spoke with James Beard every day for two hours on the telephone [to learn] what is going on in the food world. So I met James Beard within a few weeks after I knew [McCully]. Within six months after I was in America I knew the trinity of cooking — Craig Claiborne, James Beard and Julia Child. Just to tell you how small the food world was. I didn’t know one white American chef until the middle of the ‘70s. I worked for Howard Johnson I worked with black kids there, so I knew some black chefs, but all the chefs in New York were

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I used to cook at her apartment, so she said, ‘Read this manuscript on cooking.’ I said, ‘It’s pretty good.’ She said, ‘The woman is from California. She is coming in a couple of weeks — let’s cook for her.’ She says, ‘She is a big woman with a terrible voice.’ Of course that was Julia [Child].

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By now you’ve written 27 cookbooks. How did you start?

It started there, because at Howard Johnson I had to establish recipes from the test kitchen [and create instructions about] what to do for the staff. I had to write it down. I started reading cookbooks, which I never done in France. I never had one cookbook. You learned as an apprentice through osmosis. They tell you, ‘Do this, do that’ — it is never written down. Especially at home — the cooking goes from mother to daughter.

You don’t have your mom’s recipes?

No. I have my mom’s recipes which I wrote down after looking at her and asking. She never had anything written down. So I started doing that type of stuff at the time I was going also to Columbia, so all of that kind of worked out together and I re-learned how to learn.

When did you write your first cookbook?

The first was a book I did in collaboration with Helen McCully called The Other Half of the Egg. She said she wanted me to write a column for House Beautiful. It was with black-and-white photographs the size of a stamp. But it was the beginning of [writing] about technique. At that time I left Howard Johnson about 1970 after ten years and opened a restaurant on Fifth Avenue [in Manhattan] called La Potagerie with four investors — each of them lawyers, and each of them Gamblers Anonymous sponsors [laughs]. It was an incredible operation. We seated 102 people and I served 800 for lunch — turnover every 20 minutes. It became a big success in New York.

I was on [television show] What’s My Line, To Tell the Truth. I was consulting for the Russian Tea Room and eventually for the World Trade Center.

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Not really. Doing a book was doing a book, but I was cooking at the same time. It took a long time — I would say not for another ten years or more. In the ‘80s I wrote for the New York Times and I had a regular column in House Beautiful and I started doing more writing. In 1974 I had a very bad accident and I had 14 fractures. I broke my back, pelvis in a car accident. I wasn’t supposed to live or walk again. I severed my sciatic nerve and [still] have a dropped foot. That was a catalyst to push me in the direction of teaching and writing.

When did you see the change in American food culture evolving?

The change started at the end of the ‘60s with women’s liberation, organic gardening, the health-food story starting. People reacting against the TV dinner. At that time cooking schools started, which never really existed before. I started doing 35 weeks of the year on the road teaching. Now I have been teaching at the French Culinary Institute in New York for 27 years. And as a professor at BU for 31 years.

for 25 years. It doesn’t really change your life. After five, six, seven years, you see people at the airport and they say, ‘I know you.’ I still do the same thing. I’ll do a new [TV] series this summer.

Many of the cooking shows today seem to be about the personality of the chef. But you seem to keep focused on technique.

It is true — it has changed a great deal. I was somewhere where a food historian said there were 400 cooking shows on television. I don’t know if this is accurate but certainly between the Food Channel, the Cooking Channel, Lifetime, there are hundreds — often without much cooking, but more entertainment.

I am a professional cook. I always at taught cooking, I thought that is what I do best.

How has becoming a celebrity affected you?

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I was reading many of the reviews of some of your more recent book and DVDs, including [2012’s] Jacques Pepin: New Complete Techniques. There were a lot and they were all saying the same thing — that this was changing their cooking experience.

There is something very visual with cooking.

I take a knife and a piece of butter and scrape.

If you don’t have a visual picture and I have to explain in words — ‘Put your knife parallel’ — you’ll say, ‘What the heck is he talking about?’

With (all the pictures and) the DVD you can say, ‘Wow — that’s how he does it.’ You can stop and back it up; it is ideal to teach. The two books (from the ‘70s) I reworked. But the way you beat an egg white, the way you boil a chicken, the way you hold a knife has not changed.

So when you and Julia Child were together on the same show, did you ever disagree on how you ‘beat an egg white,’ for example?

We did all the time. There are two ways of looking at these things: There is the wrong way, and there is my way [laughs].

What do you think about the trend toward farm-fresh and organic foods in America?

After the food came the wine, now how to make bread. After the bread, the cheese. Now we’re going back to organic and to country farms and local food. This is a total turnover from what has happened for 50 years. It changed the way [people] do their day, the market, vacation, the way they teach their kid. My mother was an organic farmer, my father was an organic farmer, the word ‘organic’ did not exist because the chemicals did not exist. Everyone was an organic farmer. That was the way it was and we are going back.

So have food retailers caught up with the demand for natural ingredients?

The supermarkets have never been as beautiful as today. Thirty, 40 years ago there was one salad in the supermarket — iceberg [lettuce], no leek, no shallot. Some people say, ‘No one cooks any more.’ If no one cooks, what are they doing with all this? I did a series on television called Fast Food My Way, where I use the supermarket as prep cook and get a boneless, skinless chicken, pre-washed spinach, which is what a prep cook does in a restaurant. I have all of that done and just have to assemble it.

How old are your students at BU? They are all young to me [laughs]. They are usually second career. They pay a great deal of money; cooking school is very expensive. At the French Culinary Institute in New York, it’s like $45,000 for the program, like college. The students are much more attentive; they love it more than anything they’ve done. They’re going to leave and make $12 an hour [laughs]. But this is the secret of life — if you can make a living of something you love to do.

On many of the TV cooking shows now there is a lot of conflict.

Of course, because you have to do that to get ratings on television. I come from a different world. Sure, there are people who say, ‘That guy’s boring.’ But some of the people love me.

I do what I do and I’m not going to change anyway. There was a show that was on [set in a restaurant]. It was totally fake — the chefs were yelling in the kitchen, in the dining room.

There is no way you can have a restaurant this way. The restaurant is a team in the kitchen, and the team is actually everyone doing what I say [laughs]. Where I am the chef there is no noise, there is no talking — you work and you serve.

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Thomas Keller, you will go behind the stove.

There is no noise. The order is given. Nobody’s yelling. [Otherwise] it does not work.

Could you ever eat a simple peanut butterand-jelly sandwich?

I love peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches. If anything, I am a glutton. I’m much easier to please than my wife. If I go to a restaurant with my wife, the chef gets crazy and if the fish is slightly off…I eat mine anyway, but I have to eat my wife’s to make sure the chef doesn’t get crazy.

What are your favorite local restaurants?

Starting at the beginning I can start at the Clam Castle [in Madison] where I get my lobster roll in summer. Second you can go to Union League Café in New Haven, which I think is a great restaurant for many reasons. Taste of China in Clinton is very good. To paraphrase, the best restaurant is where they know you.

The highest-end American restaurants used to identified with French cuisine. Now there is emphasis on better food preparation across many ethnic cuisines.

Wherever you’re born — whether you’re Turkish, whether you’re Albanian or from the south

‘MOST EUROPEANS LOOK AT AMERICANS EATING HAMBURGERS, PIZZA, FRIED CHICKEN. IF YOU SEE THE OBESE PEOPLE, THEY EAT THE SAME FOODS OVER AND OVER.’ of Russia — you will love the dishes that your mother did as a child, and this is the greatest food in the world for you. Those tastes are visceral; those are part of who you are. If you ask me what I cooked for de Gaulle, then my brain can take me back 50 years. If we are walking in the woods and we are going mushrooming and all of a sudden I smell a taste, that will bring me back [to] 60 years ago walking in the woods with my brother. This is what the memory of the senses is.

Do you have a favorite comfort food?

I do soup almost very day. What my wife calls ‘fridge soup,’ everything in the fridge. I have salad. leftover pasta, zucchini.

Do you cook for her or does she cook for you?

Both. But basically I cook all the time. I’m always cooking, I’m always doing recipes. I’ll cook for

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some friends on Friday; we’ll eat a big meal. If I don’t cook for three or four days, something is missing in my hands. We have an apartment in Mexico. Yes, we go out for dinner, but we cook at home at least once a day. My oldest friend, Jean Claude, worked with me when we worked with de Gaulle 55 years ago. He’s a chef, too. [When he visits] we cook every day together. When he comes, he comes to BU to help me. We go to the market [and we cook] whatever the market has to offer. One place in New Haven that I love to go to get tripe and pig’s feet is Ferraro’s [on Grand Avenue]. Even though I can buy the best food, I am very miserly, because that is my training and I don’t throw anything out. When I created the Petit Café in Branford or other restaurants I’ve done, I’m very conscious of price.

What’s the question you are asked the most?

‘Who cooks at home?’ ‘What do you like to eat?’

You said your wife is tough at restaurants.

How critical is she of your cooking?

My wife will be my biggest critic. Kids are the best critics. You go with kids, they don’t know who you are [and] they don’t care.

Do children in France have more

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appreciation for food than American kids?

We have a granddaughter now. When we had [daughter] Claudine it was very important to us to spend an hour and half every day around the table for dinner. When she says, ‘Mom, what’s for dinner?’ we said, ‘Food.’

You did a PBS show with her. What was that like?

I did three series with Claudine — over 100 shows with her. Our father-daughter relationship was good and in a sense she was the vox populi. She was asking the question that people would want to ask — ‘What is this?’ ‘What is that?’ ‘How do you do this?’ People thought she was playing the klutz. No, she’s knows how to eat that, because she’s had it. But she never knew how to [make] it.

There is one trend in our culture in favor of organic, local food, more preparation, more concern about taste. But we have more fast food and processed food. Maybe you don’t want to say it, but is your group the one that started us on this new path?

It started in the 1920s, ‘30s and ‘40s, we had great food in this country before we started doing TV dinners and especially processed food which is

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the worst thing you can put in your mouth — with the sugar, the salt, it is very dangerous.

Most Europeans look at Americans eating hamburgers, pizza, fried chicken. If you see the obese people, they eat the same foods over and over. But on the other hand, you go in a place like New York or New Haven and one day [you can eat] Swahili and it is fresh, and then Italian, and then Chinese. The spectrum of tastes, because there are so many ethnic groups, is much larger now. Much larger than the Europeans, because in Italy you eat 99 percent Italian food; in France 99 percent French. In America the spectrum is much wider.

Finally, do you have a favorite dish? If you were asked what you wanted for your last meal, would it be roast squab and peas?

No, I don’t want a favorite dish. When they asked what was favorite last meal I said if you have the greatest bread and the greatest butter I can think it is very difficult to beat that. They were very disappointed. So I said, ‘Fine. I’ll tell you all the things I like to eat. But first, if it has to be my last meal, it is going to be a very, very, very, very long meal. Y

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Sweet on Investing: Sound advice and some life lessons from a New Haven Financial Advisor Interview with Charles J. Noble, III Executive Vice President/Wealth Management Noble Wealth Advisory Group of Janney Montgomery Scott LLC

By Kelly Hoffman

What inspired you to become a financial advisor?

I grew up in Naugatuck, the then-home of the Peter Paul Candy Company (now a division of Hershey Foods). When I was 13, I asked my father to take me and my paltry savings from odd jobs I had worked to his stockbroker, where I bought 15 shares of the company. At the time, Peter Paul was running three shifts, and I distinctly remember noticing that the employee parking lot was always full.

They were literally making candy around the clock. The debate of the day was not which brand of candy was the best, but rather which of the Peter Paul candy bars was better: Mounds or Almond Joy. These seemed like good reasons to invest, but what really got me hooked (apart from the sugar) were the dividends. I doubt it was more than a couple of dollars each quarter, but to me it was a revelation—all of those shifts, people everywhere enjoying the product, and me sharing in the company’s success.

As I learned more about the process of investing, I became increasingly comfortable and confident with the subject of money generally—when and how to save, when to invest, and when to spend. My

parents responded by including me in major financial decisions, even as a kid, and a few years later, friends and family began to come to me for advice regarding their financial decisions. I guess you could say I have been offering my services ever since.

What advice have you given your children?

Being able to afford something is more important than actually spending the money. You can derive 95% of the pleasure of buying something in just knowing you can afford to do so without actually spending the money. Too many people waste money, spending every penny they earn; then when something really important and worthwhile comes along, they don’t have the resources.

Do you still invest in candy companies?

Everyone should own shares of the leading companies of their time. These big franchises tend to be highly profitable, have little or no debt, and endure much longer than is commonly believed. We focus on owning companies that generate earnings well in excess of that which is required to run the business. Then we look for honest management with a track

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record of successfully allocating those excess earnings to their best use—wheth er that be reducing debt, buying back shares, or increasing their dividends. In essence, cash machines.

Why did you choose Downtown New Haven to build your practice?

Starting early in my career, I’ve had many opportunities to relocate to larger cities These options involved bigger markets but necessitated more administrative re sponsibilities and people management— which left less time for direct client in teraction. Let’s just say I’ve never had a sleepless night over an investment or cli ent relationship.

One of my associates has made a game ou of counting the number of people who greet me and whom I greet while walk ing on Church Street between Chape and Trumbull. I don’t remember wha the highest count is, but it’s a lot and tha makes me very happy. I’ve been in Down town New Haven for 30 years and I fee that New Haven can compete with larger cities in terms of culture and diversity, bu provides the small town feel that is lack ing in larger metropolitan areas. In addi tion, New Haven triangulates Boston and

New York, benefiting from its proximity to both. We have made a commitment to Downtown geographically, but we are invested in the city financially as well and are quietly supportive of many organizations in and around New Haven. I am proud to say that we’ve increased that support along with our success.

How do you measure your success?

I measure my success by the notes of thanks we receive, our nearly 100% client retention, and the amount of money we manage for our clients. We have over 150 affluent families, businesses, and notfor-profits as clients, with a total of about $600 million of assets under management. We are careful to take on only as many relationships as we can fully service.

It is also important for us to leave room for pro bono work.

Why did you form Noble Wealth Advisor y Group?

I wanted a unified philosophy of client service—one where we actively listen to our clients’ needs, provide comprehensive financial planning, and help them to clarify their objectives. We work together to provide a very high level of personalized service in a family office setting. It is a point of pride for us that unless it is a matter of legality or morality, we never tell a client that we cannot help them. My team of six goes way beyond full service, assisting clients with everything from trusts, estates, and charitable giving to negotiating the purchase of a

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age you should have invested in equities.

Really? This is supposed to be your guide to investing for retirement? Provided you have immediately foreseeable expenses covered with a cash reserve, I can make a far more compelling case for greater equity investment in retirement. Here’s why: During your working years, you are “in the

“We focus on owning companies that generate earnings well in excess of that which is required to run the business. Then we look for honest management with a track record of successfully allocating those excess earnings to their best use—whether that be reducing debt, buying back shares, or increasing their dividends. In essence, cash machines.” new car or finding a contractor to repair a loose front step. I’ve even climbed up on a roof in the middle of a rainstorm to clear a clogged roof drain, when there was no one else around to get it done.

What are some of the most common mistakes investors make?

The most common mistakes are holding too much cash or too little cash, focusing too much on current events and not enough on historical perspective, and listening to television personalities as if they were financial gurus, rather than entertainers. One common investing trap is to strive for easily memorable formulas or axiomatic answers to complex systems or problems.

One of these so called “rules” is to subtract your age from 100 and that is the percent-

game.” If you own a business, you can raise your prices. If you are an employee, you can enjoy career advancement and raises.

Once you retire, all of that stops. Inflation has compounded at around 3% on average for the past 100 years, higher immediately following wars (think Iraq and Afghanistan). If you are retiring this year, in 10 years a new car will cost you 35% more.

We are highly focused on maintaining our client’s purchasing power and lifestyle throughout their retirement.

Retirement is an important topic to you.

The first question everyone asks when they retire is, “How am I going to pay the bills next month?” Business or professional income typically stops, so even if you have savings, investments and a retirement

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fund, it is important to know the most taxefficient order in which to draw income from your accumulated resources. We are experts in preparing and guiding our clients through and beyond this important life transition. We help our clients get the mechanics right to continue their lifestyle, while positioning their investments to keep pace with an ever-evolving world. We have planning tools that allow clients to look into their future and “test drive” their retirement before they retire. This provides a great deal of comfort and security.

You’ve talked about stocks, but what about bonds?

There is a place for bonds and other fixed-income assets in portfolios, but you must get adequately compensated for both the credit and maturity risk. Historically, investors have captured 75–80% of the maximum return available, but only a third of the risk by investing in medium to high credit quality bonds with maturities of 3–10 years. Currently the risk/reward ratio for most fixed-income investments is horrific. Having said that, we currently are acquiring for our clients bond-type investments that will be insulated from rising interest rates. I would like to tell you more, but this is a competitive business.

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Avid area cyclists share their favorite rides

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By Lynn Fredricksen

18 May 2013

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The Fall Fifty For Ted Deveraux, getting on a bicycle and doing his “Fall 50” ride above the foliage is its own kind of thrill.

Deveraux, of Madison, is an avid cyclist who loves to talk about his favorite ride.

there is a final straight shot down Long Hill Road to return to the Guilford Green.

While the Fall 50 is a popular route, Deveraux often enjoys it as a solitary venture.

“There are little coffee shops where you can grab a doughnut and something to drink,” Deveraux says. “You can talk to other riders. The thing I love about this area is there is such a large cycling community with all different types of cyclists.

Fast or slow, there is always somebody out riding.”

“It’s a great fall ride,” he said. “It’s peaceful. It’s just you and your thoughts.”

As much as he enjoys the feeling of letting the wind rushing past him and getting some good climbs and a taste of speed on the Fall 50, there’s another ride — a more private one — that Deveraux maintains is his absolute favorite.

Devereaux took his “Fall 50” ride to get above the trees that otherwise block the breathtaking vistas Connecticut has to offer.

‘It’s peaceful … just you and your thoughts.’

“It’s the beauty of it,” Deveraux explains. “On a bike you just kind of ride the local roads and the big hills and you get your own tour.”

Deveraux’s Fall 50 ride takes him beside rivers, still lakes and hilltops.

“It’s a ride I do in late October right when the leaves are changing,” he says.

Deveraux, who works as a risk-management specialist for AIG, notes that Connecticut’s topography is such that a bicyclist doesn’t often get an above-the-trees view.

“The trees are always right there,” he says. “The Fall 50 ride takes up to the top of the hills.”

At 250 pounds, Deveraux is built bigger than most people who enjoy cycling. But he maintains that with cycling, size doesn’t matter.

“Being a big guy, I’m not great at running, but I can ride my bike forever,” he explains.

The Fall 50 departs from the Guilford Green and heads east along Madison’s beaches. It turns north up River Road, to Green Hill Road, then crosses over uphill to Summerhill Road.

“It’s a beautiful scenic road,” Deveraux says.

“That’s when you start heading up into the hills.

You climb up and get your first real break of looking out over the trees, then make a pretty quick descent.”

That descent takes him down Route 77 where he rides around Quonnopaug Lake taking in the morning mist and fog.

From there he heads down West Hill Road where he reaches speeds of 37 to 40 miles an hour. Then new haven

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started bringing his bike in the car to the center of town.

“It’s good for my health and it’s good for my mind,” he says. “There are not too many things I enjoy more.”

Since having a couple of instances that gave him pause, O’Brien does his best to always be conscious of vehicles overtaking him from behind.

“One lady blew the horn,” he recounts. “And there was an episode on Montowese Street with a lady on her cell phone while she was driving her SUV. She didn’t see me.”

Cancer survivor and avid cyclist Stephen Ackley-Ortiz, left, and Scott Baldwin at the 100-mile “Closer to Free” ride to raise funds for the Smilow Cancer Hospital, where Ackley-Ortiz was treated.

“When I get home from my ride, my son Austen will say to me, ‘Daddy, are you ready for your cooldown ride?’ “ Deveraux says.

While five-year-old Austen still has training wheels on his bike, he shows every sign of inheriting his father’s passion for cycling. The two ride around their cul-de-sac, which thrills the elder Deveraux.

“It’s another generation,” he says.

“It leaves an impression on him not only of physical fitness, but getting out there in the fresh air.”

Still, “In 26 years I’ve had very few episodes,” he says. But things happen. O’Brien once ran over a live squirrel, fortunately with no negative consequences for either of them. “He scooted off into a yard and looked like he was fine.”

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While he acknowledges he won’t hot the road in a downpour or a snowstorm, O’Brien does ride in all temperatures. Whether it’s 100 degrees or nine degrees, he’s out there doing his route.

For Bill O’Brien, going for a bicycle ride is a solitary adventure.

“I physically feel as if I need to do it,” he explains. “It helps me get the blood flowing. There’s no distraction, no phone. I just concentrate on the route.”

O’Brien, 73, has been pedaling a scenic route in Branford for 26 years.

He figures he’s logged 36,000 miles — all within Branford town limits.

“One day I took my old Columbia bike out from under the porch and rode two miles in my neighborhood,” O’Brien recalls of how he started bicycling. “I came back and announced it, but my wife didn’t notice.”

O’Brien, who lives about two miles from the center of town, gradually expanded his route to take him down by the harbor and near the Pine Orchard Club. When he clocked it in the car he was surprised to see he had biked 15.2 miles.

Bill O’Brien estimates he’s biked 36,000 miles in Branford alone over the past 26 years. The 73-year-old has only had few dangerous close-calls, which don’t bother him much. ‘There are not too many things I enjoy more.’

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He’s also suffered a couple of falls.

Once he hit black ice and went down. Another time the chain came off and jammed, sending O’Brien tumbling to the pavement.

“I did that for seven or eight years,” he said.

When the road became a little more dangerous to ride, and O’Brien had a couple of close calls with drivers who weren’t paying attention, he

O’Brien’s ride starts in the center of Branford. He heads out Montowese Street to Pine Orchard Road and Damascus Road past the middle school. He cuts through the golf course and loops a second time along the water and through Hotchkiss Grove. From there he takes a right and rides by Lenny’s Seafood and up to Foote Park before heading along the Branford River, under the bridge and up Meadow Street. He turns left onto Montowese Street then ends up back in the center of town.

“It takes me about an hour and five minutes, tops,” O’Brien says. “This was something I just wanted to do. It’s an hour to get my exercise for the day. I do my thing and go home.”

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The thrill of a 100-mile ride intensifies when it gives something back to the institution that saved the life of one of its most enthusiastic participants.

Stephen Ackley-Ortiz of Woodbridge is a cancer survivor. He’s also an avid cyclist. His ride?

Closer to Free, a 100-mile scenic ride to raise funds for Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, where Ackley-Ortiz was treated.

Ackley-Ortiz, director of alumni affairs at Yale Law School, had a complicated combination of throat and colon cancer. After baffling experts at Johns Hopkins and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, he was thrilled to find excellent care at nearby Smilow.

While undergoing treatments, he noticed signs promoting the first Closer to Free ride.

He already had a bike. But due to his illness, he couldn’t ride. Even so, the idea of the ride intrigued him.

“I said, ‘I’m going to get through this, and I’m going to ride that ride,’” Ackley-Ortiz recalls. “It was a huge inspiration for me.”

With his treatments behind him, and with the support of his wife, Ramie Ackley, he started riding in earnest to prepare for his first Closer to Free ride. That was in 2011.

The ride offers three routes: 25 miles; 62.5 miles (a metric century); and 100 miles (century). His first year, Ackley-Ortiz opted for the 25-mile ride. Last year he finished the 100-mile route in five hours and 39 minutes.

“It’s a way to give back to the place that saved my life,” he explains.

With similar terrain for all three rides, everyone departs from the Yale Bowl with nearly 500 riders wearing their Closer to Free cycling jerseys.

A police escort takes them past Smilow, where patients wave from the windows. They proceed to Orange Street and to East Rock, then along the base of East Rock to Ridge Road to Mount Carmel Road near Quinnipiac University. That’s where the 25-milers turn left up West Woods and through the back roads into Bethany. From there, they follow Route 69 back to New Haven and return to Yale Bowl.

“It’s a gorgeous ride,” Ackley-Ortiz says. “There are some hills, but everybody manages it.”

The ride attracts cyclists of all ages and all levels of ability. Some parents tote youngsters in trailers. A few ride tandem bicycles.

Those doing the longer rides turn right at Mount Carmel Road where they find the first rest stop manned by enthusiastic volunteers.

From there, the ride winds through Wallingford and into Durham and Guilford where the 62-milers turn right in Guilford and head to the shoreline where they follow the coast back into New Haven and the Yale Bowl. The 100-milers go out to Essex and Old Lyme before also returning via the shoreline.

Along the way, ride marshals are there to assist with things like flat tires and volunteers cheer the riders on.

“This is one of the best run rides you will find,” Ackley-Ortiz says. “They have an absolute army of volunteers. People love this ride. I’ve heard too many stories and I’ve said goodbye to too many people. We’ve got to beat this damned thing.”

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Throughout his 27 years, MMA fighter Newell has never allowed his disability to define him.

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Against All Odds Despite an improbable handicap, a Milford Mixed Martial Artist approaches the highest reaches of his sport

By ALI IACONO 22 May 2013

At one time or another nearly every growing child latches onto a role model that they aspire one day to become. Whether that idol is an individual that the child engages with regularly or if they extend into the realms of the child’s vivid imagination; the role model’s existence serves as a dream for another person.

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XFC is a premier professional MMA promotion televised on the AXSTV cable network. The organization owns and operates MMA training facilities for professional fights, amateur fighters and children. The organization has developed fight card (main event or preliminary match) stadiums in Florida, Kentucky and Tennessee.

The XFC is divided into a men and women’s division. Each division is further broken up into different weight divisions. Weighing in at 154.6 pounds, Newell falls into the Lightweight division (146-155 pounds).

For current Xtreme Fighting Championships (XFC) Lightweight Champion “Notorious” Nick Newell, his childhood devotion to a group of heroes-in-the-half-shell first inspired him to become a fighter — despite the fact that he competes with only one hand.

Having his eye on the prize at all times may explain his latest success.

Newell most recently improved his record to nine wins without a loss as a professional mixed martial artist, earning himself the title of XFC Lightweight World Champion as well as a cash prize after defeating Eric Reynolds at XFC 21 Night of Champions

Newell, 27, is a Mixed Martial Artist (MMA) who hails from Milford. Due to a condition known as congenital amputation, the absence of a fetal limb or fetal part at birth, Newell was born with a left arm that extends only slightly past the elbow.

“Staying mentally strong was kind of tough. I feel like a lot of people would have quit, but I have my goals and I have my dreams,” he says. “If there weren’t obstacles then the prize at the end wouldn’t be so sweet.”

“You work so hard [training] when no one’s paying attention so when they do you can perform at your best. I put on the best performance of my life,” Newell recalls of the biggest win of his life.

At the start of the championship fight each fighter paces in a corner of the caged ring, exchanging intense glares as the announcer introduces each contestant. The bell sounds and the fighters converge to begin round one of potentially five rounds. Almost immediately Newell swings his leg into the air, just a few centimeters shy of Reynolds’ face. The two continue to lunge at each other, bouncing off the caged walls, exchanging headshots, and barely escaping potentially severe blows.

Less than a minute into the first round of the championship fight Newell

flips his opponent and gets him into a headlock, locking his arms beneath Reynolds’ chin. Unable to break free of Newell’s hook, Reynolds taps out of the fight (also known as a first-round “submission”), earning Newell the title of XFC Lightweight World Champion.

“It’s really an indescribable feeling.

There’s no word that I can come up with to decide what it is,” Newell says reflecting on his victory over Reynolds.

As a child Newell had interests in many sports, some of which typically involve the use of both hands. The staunch support of his mother is something he says motivated him to want to test the waters in different sports rather than allowing his condition to discourage him.

“When I was raised I was not treated any different” from other kids, Newell recalls. “I was not encouraged to stay away from things. My mom started me off playing soccer and that’s a sport where you don’t need two hands to do. Then one day I said I want to do baseball and she said okay. So I played baseball. It’s always been, ‘Nick’s going to do what he wants to do and I’ll always encourage him to do it.’”

“I really wanted to be a Ninja Turtle,” Newell recalls with a laugh. “One time I actually got in trouble at the movie theater because when the movie started I whipped out nunchucks and I screamed ‘Cowabunga!’”

Though one would imagine pursuing a dream in the world of fighting with just one hand would be next to impossible (if not certifiably insane), Newell says his condition — combined with skepticism on the part of others about his ability to compete athletically at a high level — only pushes him to work harder.

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Baseball with one hand? Yes, it’s possible. Newell explains his playing technique was like that of a former Major League Baseball pitcher with the same disability.

“I caught the baseball in the glove, switched it off and threw,” Newell explains. “Similar to Jim Abbott,” the former Yankees and Angels hurler who was born without a right hand but in 1993 threw a no-hitter against the Cleveland Indians.

‘Notorious’ Nick Newell congenital amputation had him born with a partially grown left arm, but that didn’t stand in his way to becoming an Xtreme Fightining Championships Lightweight Champion today.

His childhood devotion to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles helped, too.

Newell’s athletic journey began at Jonathan Law High School, where he joined the wrestling team on w whim.

It was then when Newell came face to face with his true passion: physical combat.

“Wrestling is where I got my start,” he says. “One of my friends said, ‘Hey I’m going to join the wrestling team,’ and I was like, ‘That sounds like fun — I new haven

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think I’ll do that, too.”

Although his match record of eight wins and 22 losses during his first year wasn’t necessarily impressive, Newell’s persistence and determination eventually drove him to amass a career record of 11523 by the end of his senior year.

“Things kind of got carried away from something that I said, ‘Oh, I’ll give it a try’ to. I ended up being All State [in 2004].”

D.J. Pember was also a member of the Jonathan Law wrestling team in 2003. Pember says anyone who assumed Newell was at a disadvantage due to his condition was quickly and painfully proven otherwise.

“It felt like getting hit with a hammer,” Pember says as he reminisces on his bouts with Newell, “Nick truly proved that his condition didn’t make him any less capable than anyone else.”

Newell continued to wrestle throughout his time in college at Western New England University, where he captained the team his final two years. The sport of MMA nonchalantly introduced itself to Newell during his time at college.

“There’s not really a cool story behind it,” he says of his introduction to the sport. “I saw it on TV and I said, ‘I really want to learn that.’ Then I saw some guy wearing a shirt of a mixed martial arts team one day and I decided to go give it a try.”

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Similar to his high-school wrestling days, Newell faced suspicion and skepticism from prospective opponents even after he had begun to make a significant name for himself as a fighter.

“Once people found out that I was good not a lot of people wanted to fight me,” he says with a smile. “They kind of used my arm thing and said, ‘I don’t want to fight this guy because it’s a lose/lose situation. If I beat him then I beat a guy with one hand, and if I lose to him then I lost to a guy with one hand.’”

Though one may imagine any person involved in such an aggressive sport would be fueled by rage, Newell says competing as a MMA fighter isn’t an anger outlet.

“I’m never really a mad person. I’m always in a good mood,” Newell explains. “I fight because it’s fun. I like competing. It really is a science and there’s a lot that you can learn. Every day I learn something new.

There’s not really a lot of hate or anger in me; I’m just a competitor. It’s a job. I’m actually friends with every guy that I’ve fought.”

The key to Newell’s success: a strong passion for the sport and commitment to intense training. The onehanded fighter has spent a grueling amount of hours preparing for battle at the Fighting Arts Academy in Springfield, Mass., Ultimate MMA in North Haven and Fitness Concept in Orange.

“I’ve been lucky enough to have the advantage of being a hard worker, being very dedicated, having heart, a will to never give up and having great coaching,” he says. “Those are my advantages.”

Despite attaining his dream (literally) of becoming a professional MMA fighter, Newell strives for more: a chance at becoming a fighter in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), the largest MMA promotion company in the world which hosts most of the topranked fighters in the sport.

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“My ultimate goal is to be the UFC champion,” Newell says resolutely. “If I don’t reach that, then my whole career I feel is a failure to me and that’s something that I use to motivate myself. It sounds crazy to some people but it doesn’t sound crazy to me.”

However, UFC President Dana White doesn’t appear as confident of Newell’s prospects as Newell is himself. White took a jab (no pun intended) at Newell when he said the one-handed fighter would never be a part of the Ultimate Fighter. After a pre-fight press conference for a UFC event last December, White was quoted saying “Fighting with one arm is just craziness to me.”

Despite the discouragement felt by Newell after White’s uncharitable words, the fighter isn’t ready to give up on what’s his.

“It kind of hurts me a little bit that someone so high in the influence of the sport would have such an opinion about me but he says stuff like that all the time and changes his mind,” Newell says. “When it comes down to it at the end of the day it’s about getting the best fighters and I know that I’ll be there.”

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Kitchen: A new set of cabinets is surrounded by objects collected by the Heaths including a wall clock from France and a lantern that attached to a old vintage sign that was hung in a French bistro.

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This deeply engrained human need can be satisfied by painting it our favorite color, building a “dream home” from scratch, or hunting for the perfect 18th-century farmhouse, or just getting an obscene amount of closet space.

For Paris Heath, “home” has always been defined by the objects that she found for its interior — not built, but discovered and brought home. And not just furniture or artwork that hangs on the walls, but a huge array of unique and expressive “things” — objects of quirky beauty, all with a story to tell. She has taken the gift of spotting art amid the clutter and made a career of it as an interior designer who specializes in connecting objects with environments — bringing art and craft and history into existing spaces.

Over ten years ago, Paris met Terry Heath, who works at IBM, and they fell in love. After what Paris

refers to as “my big Greek wedding,” the natural manifestation of their new life together was to find a home. A logical place to house-hunt was Woodbridge, where Paris’ brother lived.

Walking the dog one day in a then-heating-up real estate market, Paris’ brother noted a very sweet Cape was about to come on the market.

It was the perfect starter home — especially for New Englander Terry, whose father, Fenno Heath, was Yale’s choral guru for more than a quartercentury. They pounced on it and a much longerthan-expected saga of home creation ensued.

Once the couple closed on the home, the Heaths jumped into a classic first-home ”gut rehab” of a prototypical suburban house. Terry spent endless hours gutting the home himself, and Paris and Terry worked to remedy the one obvious misfit between how the couple lived and what the home offered — a too-small kitchen. A generous new wing was designed and built as part of a three-year-long construction saga.

As noted, Paris had always loved finding interesting objects and Terry soon realized what enormous fun it would be to provide a home that fully celebrated the joy they both took in the things they discovered together.

What was to be a benchmark year for fulfilling a lifelong dream — 2007 — was instead marked by a devastating sequence of tragedies. In the month the Heaths began moving in their possessions a fire broke out. Seems the painter was used an oil-based stain on the windows and threw the stain-saturated rags into a corner, where they later spontaneously combusted. The raging fire virtually destroyed the entire home’s interior to the point where it was a total loss.

But more than consuming their Cape in flames, the fire consumed almost all the objects that Paris and Terry had spent years acquiring and, in some cases, pieces that had a lifetime of significance. The fire consumed the piano had Terry had received from his celebrated father, as well as an early American family desk from 1730, along with the sundry other talismans that were the fruit of the couple’s shared passion for collecting.

The front of the new house which replaced its burned-down predecessor, (above) incorporated the existing rebuilt stone walls combined with stone sculptures like lions, dogs, planters, etc. from consignment shops and flea markets.

Stairwell: The central lantern is actually a new object (it can be lowered from the ceiling by a mechanical pulley system for easy cleaning) but brass banister was found outdoors at a flea market and the large clock on the wall came from a bakery in Belgium.

Any object — even an entire building — can be replaced. To compound the nightmare that Terry personally surveyed — fire engulfing their time and money and hope in flames — life sadly provided an even deeper perspective. Just prior to the fire, Paris’ mother passed away unexpectedly.

But commitment to create a home is not dependent on mere things.

Despite losing Terry’s father in 2008, the Heaths undertook building a new home with the same intensity and focus that allowed them to see opportunity in almost every object that caught their fancy. Working with architect Justin Shanley and general contractor Frank Viniczay, the new house that resulted was based a few simple but ironclad principles.

Entrance to the ‘man cave,’ complete with antique Chinese hand-carved wooden painted foo dogs, guarding access. Antique sconces on both sides of doors came from a local estate sale, while reclaimed barn siding boards surround the gates.

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First, the Heaths passion for blending

old and new extended to the one element that remained from the original home: the existing stone walls and exterior steps. Those were saved and defined the location of the new construction.

Second, the new house had to feel like the original Cape — but its creation needed to accommodate the need to embrace the found objects that would be sought and bought to fill the new interior. The new design provided extra second-floor ceiling height from the original tight Cape by extending the upper story’s wall height from a traditional Cape roof resting on the front and rear first-floor walls to having rest on a five-foot-high extension of the ground-level walls The result is what Terry calls “somewhere between a Cape and a Colonial” — complete with curved roofed entry and dormers

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echoing the lines of a few of the existing exterior walls.

Creating a new house became the perfect vehicle to celebrate their passion for finding context for all the embodied history, craft and art they spent their free time sourcing from places like the legendary Brimfield Antique Show in Massachusetts, the Elephant’s Trunk flea market in Brookfield and Furniture on Consignment in Westport.

The master bedroom has lights on the ceiling said to be from an old atrium lobby.

The crown molding has metallic paint for a gilt look. The hand-rubbed walls were painted by Terry Heath. Antique sconces and the large gold gilt mirror came from a consignment store while the old armoire shutters around windows are from France.

The one feature that was not found in someone else’s possession reflects the Heaths other passion — cooking.

A large new kitchen by the Kitchen Design Center presents the kind of dramatic detailing that can respond to the rest of the interior.

The Heaths moved into their new home in 2009. Its exterior, despite its curves, has a traditional, centered presence to the street. The interior of this home does not feel “new,” but it does feel alive. The interior is a lyrically kinetic dance between new walls, openings, flooring and stairs and hundreds of items — ancient, recent and newly minted — but all idiosyncratic and deeply meaningful to

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Like the rest of the new home’s interior, the family room blends old and new to create a warm country French feel with old farm bean mantle and heavy cast iron from an old building in New York City. The sign on the mantle is an antique from France. The old gates leading into the sunroom came from a salvage company and above the door is a old fireplace mantle.

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The game room (part of the ‘man cave’): The antique stained-glass gas lantern/ chandelier converted to electric hovers above a Brunswick pool table from 1906.

Below large stone fish, from a trip to Beijing by Terry Heath. The multitude of little antique items enrich the space including a row of oak opera chairs from Stratford opera theater dating from the late 1800s.

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After four years of occupancy the house feels like it has reached a state of happy satiety — not stuffed or overwhelmed by the proliferating personal pieces that bond the home to its owners.

Homes not only reflect the families who live in them; they also can embody larger cultural values. Public television’s Antiques Road Show has created a focus on the value and history of all the objects we see around us all the time. The exceptional success of Antiques Road Show paved

Houses almost never really complete a family. But homes do reflect a family, and over the last decade Terry Heath has come to relish the hunt for fresh objects to have and to hold perhaps even more than Paris does. Their home has become a wonderfully accommodative picture frame and background to a endless array of elements that are applied, revised, removed and replaced.

We try to categorize our houses to give them a safely definitive “name” — whether it’s “modern” or “traditional,” we desperately seek to find security in pigeonholing our abodes by type.

A shallow observation of the Heath home might call its interior “shabby

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When asked where a particular piece came from, Paris and Terry joyfully regale the inquisitor with a story — a set of armoire doors were on an episode of Martha Stewart’s TV show, huge fish below the Man Cave’s pool table came from a business trip to China, and those exterior stone steps are the silent sentinels from the original Cape’s loss..

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The Quinnipiac River seen at dusk looking out to Front Street in Fair Haven. Ian Christman has photographed the river from New Haven to Southbury.

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“I live along it, I’ve rescued people from it, I’ve traversed the entire length of it and I love it,” he says.

The 45-mile-long river has personalities that are as diverse as the municipalities through which it flows. “In the New Haven area, you can see the lobster boats coming and going every day and when you go north, it is all marshland. It’s so serene and secluded,” Christmann says. “You can very quickly remove yourself from civilization.”

“The river is a natural resource that is both underutilized and abused,” Christmann says. He has photographed the river from its mouth in New Haven all of the way up to its headwaters in Southbury. His photos are on a traveling exhibit that has spent time in each municipality along the river.

“People need to protect that natural resource,” he says.

Roger Kemp of Meriden likewise cherishes the natural resource that is the Quinnipiac River.

He lives for the days he can put his kayak on his car rooftop and drive down to the water for an excursion up the river.

“I think it’s one of the nicest ways to see nature,” he says. Kemp sits on the board of the Quinnipiac River Watershed Association (QRWA.org), which represents all of the cities and towns along the river. The group’s main focus is education and outreach, science and monitoring, conservation and restoration and recreation and public access.

The association holds annual get-on-the-river events including this month’s Quinnipiac Downriver Classic canoe and kayak race; the Source-to-Sound Cleanup; the opening day fishing derby; and regular guided hikes and canoe trips. In addition, staff members are certified to offer basic canoe instruction and recruit and train students to become river interns.

“It’s a great way to give those first-timers who never had the chance to get out on a canoe to get out and experience the river,” fellow association board member Dan Pelletier says.

“You experience the river in a whole different way when you’re on it,” explains Pelletier. “You see both sides at once, and you’re not looking down on it. And since you’re always moving, you can see more. We want people to get out on the river and enjoy this great resource that we have.”

The lush river is host to a wide range of wildlife from Osprey’s to Otter.

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of the QRWA and is an avid canoe racer. He is a seven-time Whitewater New England Canoe Champion. Though Pelletier doesn’t experience

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“When I’m on the water, the river comes alive — the deer, the birds, even the plants,” he says.

“I become more in tune with nature and start becoming part of the river. I become part of the scene, part of nature.”

It’s not unusual to see an eagle, swan or turtle.

Back in bygone days, harbor seals populated the river at the mouth of New Haven Harbor.

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“More and more, I see young people enjoying the river — high school kids and teenagers are taking the kayak out for an hour or so for some spring and summer fun.” On May 19, the QRWA hosts the 33rd annual Downriver Classic canoe and kayak race. More than 100 people competed last year.

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The upper part of the river that flows through Southington, Meriden and into Cheshire is cleaner than the lower portion which passes through Wallingford and North Haven before flowing into New Haven Harbor. There are, however, significant efforts made to continue cleaning the river.

A grant from L.L. Bean will go toward maintaining the upper five-mile canoe and kayak trail that starts in Cheshire and terminates in Meriden. This summer, according to Pelletier, a grant from the Quinnipiac River Fund will go towards a four-mile canoe and kayak trail that NEWHAVENMAGAZINE.COM

The river’s five-mile canoe and kayak trail runs from Cheshire to Meriden and is a hotspot for these boaters.

‘You experience the river in a while different way when you’re on it,’ river Watershed Association board member Dan Pelletier says.

runs from Wallingford into North Haven.

a lawsuit 20 years ago.

“It will go toward cleaning up trees that fell across the river in Hurricane Sandy and stations will be installed where boaters can read about the surroundings and habitat,� Pelletier explains. “In all, it’ll be nine miles of canoe and kayak trail with signage.�

“The Upjohn Chemical Co. made a tremendous amount of chemicals that polluted the river.

They did not keep within the permit, so the Connecticut Fund for the Environment sued them for exceeding the amount of pollutants they were permitted to put into the river,� she explains.

According to Christmann, “Part of the river in Wallingford is impassable due to the trees [fallen] across the entire river. I tried navigating that section and I wound up having to climb over 21 trees.�

A $20,000 grant from the Quinnipiac River Fund will present many opportunities to access and explore the river this summer. Parks and trails along the shore include Quinnipiac River Park and Dover Beach in New Haven, the Quinnipiac River Linear Trail in Wallingford, the Quinnipiac River Gorge in Meriden, and Quinnipiac River State Park in North Haven. The Fargeorge Preserve, a land trust property located on Quinnipiac Avenue, houses marked trails that provides unique access to the Quinnipiac tidal marsh.

Nancy Alderman is on Quinnipiac River Fund’s advisory committee and says the reason there is money available for the river and the reason the Quinnipiac River is an endowed river stems from

Today that fund is managed by the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and makes money available through grants for research, education, restoration activities and other relevant projects. For 20 years, the fund has supported cleanup efforts and research on the Quinnipiac River. Alderman says $1 million went into the foundation with the stipulation that the income from it would be used to clean up the river. The fund gifts about $110,000 a year to organizations such as the QRWA and provides grants for projects that will enhance the river. “It’s one thing to have scientists and researchers looking at what the pollution is, but it’s another thing to get people to care about this river,� says the Community Foundation’s director of grants and scholarships, Sarah Fabish. “The University of New Haven has been studying at the mouth of the river — the changes in algae and plant life that is encroaching on the

environment because of the pollution. We look at all aspects, but at the heart of it is: How do we make this a cleaner river?� Fabish says.

The Quinnipiac River was created from a glacial lake and naturally has a long and rich history.

The river was named the Quinnipiac River, or “long water land� by the Native Americans who originally inhabited the region. In 1614, the river was rediscovered by Europeans who settled on the banks.

In subsequent years, ďŹ shing huts, farms and homes began to dot both sides of the river. At the river’s mouth in New Haven, rich oyster beds and a river port helped the area begin to prosper.

Back then, few understood how important the oysters really were as natural ďŹ lters and puriďŹ ers of the river.

In the 19th century, as manufacturing plants and residential development found the banks of the Quinnipiac River, pollution and erosion followed.

Oysters no longer thrive, but due to efforts by groups such as the QRF, the area may once again be home to a healthy oyster population. “It really needs a level of community advocacy to get people to pay attention,� Fabish says. “In order to get people’s attention on this, we need advocacy. There are things still getting into that river that shouldn’t get into the river.� Y

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Hiking Hidden

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By JESSICA GIANNONE

Hiking Connecticut’s most popular trails will bring you all over rugged rock ridges, high hills and flora-filled forests.

Though they may be equally attractive, there are plenty of lesser-known trails that offer just as much, if not more, serene scenery and challenging byways to behold.

The following hikes will take you to the hidden gems of the state’s countless wooded treasures, along old settler paths, through grassy plains, over glistening ledges and alongside babbling brooks. I recommend bringing a map for each trail and referring to a Connecticut Walk Book to help guide you on your ventures.

Take a hike off the beaten path, and you just might find what you’re looking for.

Whitney Pond, Durham Photo: Courtesy Rick Huntley Durham Conservation Commission

This spring try treks that are off the beaten path (literally)

A Hike That Rocks Rockland Preserve, Madison

It’s not every day one has the opportunity to stroll along ancient wooded roads passing through longabandoned remains of settler life from centuries ago. An old stone wall, fireplaces and charcoal pits — estimated to have been in use between the 18th century and the 1930s — are among the features to behold at the Rockland Preserve, in addition to the 15 trails that await hikers.

dam. A giant boulder will also be found on the trail, standing as a reminder that the land holds features far-traveled.

Joe Oslander, chairman of the Rockland Preserve Committee and Stewardship Committee with the Madison Land Conservation Trust, says the glacial erratic probably came from somewhere to the north, possibly as far as Massachusetts. The formation was most likely pushed to the Rockland area by glacial ice.

As far as the charcoal and fire pits, rich with tales of the earliest European settlers roughly three centuries ago, Oslander says he has found some 20 sites where charcoal was made on the property, as early residents would do all of their work in the woods.

The 640-acre preserve is defined by a far-traveled glacial erratic, vernal pools, wildflowers, mountain laurel thickets and a shimmering ten-acre-plus pond, offering views of the vast and dense vegetation that surrounds it.

“You’re looking for spots where the ground is black and flat, and no trees are growing,” explains Oslander. “Then you’ll see a fireplace and usually a little bit of charcoal in it. That’s how they cooked their meals.”

First entering the site from Renee’s Way, one has the option to follow the 1.5 mile-long red blazes (the Dave Houston Trail) looping around the southern portion of the site, or continue to the Coan Pond Trail, designated with white blazes which intersect with the red. Following the red blazes, hikers can look for Coan Pond on their right before crossing a tiny wooden footbridge overlooking a beaver

The interpretive sign that accompanies a charcoal pit replication explains how the early settlers also used the land to make charcoal for local blacksmiths and Connecticut’s earliest metal industries. Additionally, most of the original trails are old town roads. When making your way through the woods, remember that you are walking in the footsteps of some of the first settlers of what is now Madison.

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Climbing the Mica Ledges in Durham will give those adventurous hikers up to the task some stunning panoramic views. _ “Mica Ledge Jess2”

Continuing deeper into the woods, hikers have the option to veer west off of the Houston Trail at the o Crooked Hill Road junction and walk a loop on the C 1.5-mile orange-blazed Boundary Trail. Here it’s recommended to pay careful attention to the blazes, as the trail is rich with twists and turns. Following tthe orange blazes and bearing to the right, you will eeventually reach a steady but steep rocky incline bringing you to the top of a clustered rock ledge overlooking the forest below. The trail, which also o passes wildflowers and vernal pools, will lead you back down where you can take the Old Crooked Hill Road Trail (once a town road) to the northeast quadrant of the site. q The 3.2-mile orange-blazed Rockland Trail loops T around most of the northern section of the site and offers a route over a smooth, open rock elevation. o Hikers may spot a tiny waterfall trickling over a ccluster of rocks along the way — a good spot to rest and appreciate the surrounding nature. The Rockland Trail leads to the green-blazed Summit Trail at four T cconnector points and surrounds it. This 1.4-mile trail loops around at a high elevation and offers a steady walk between the endless trees. w The rest of the trails serve as crossovers or T cconnectors to the main thoroughfares. Aside from tthe main blazed trails, hikers can choose to follow tthe blue and white arrow trails that mark the paths ccreated by the Singletracks of Rockland, which have about eight miles’ worth of two trail networks tthroughout the site.

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The Lake Mohegan Open Space Area in Fairfield is 170 acres of hiking trail and features much in the way of open rocky ground, lakes and waterfalls. __ “Cascades Lake Mohegan Jess”

you will pass Whitney Pond to your right, which offers a peaceful moment to stop and perch on a log bench to view the placid water. This is a good spot for snacking or just admiring the reflection of the clouds on the open water. Continuing through the woods you will pass a winding stone-strewn stream surrounded by tall, narrow tree thickets.

As you make your way toward the Mica Ledges, the hike will begin to incline more steeply, twisting around tall shrubs and short rock clusters that will ultimately lead to the top. The highest elevation on the trail along the ledges is about 550 feet. Intersecting soon after with the blue blazes, part of the Mattabesett Trail, stay to the right to reach the long-awaited views of historic Durham.

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With these singe-hiker-wide trails, Jason Engelhardt with Singletracks (an volunteer local trail-clearing and -maintaining group) explains the intent is to guide users slowly through the most interesting features of the site, including the miniature waterfall, boulders and charcoal sites.

After about 20 miles’ worth of hiking, you might want to call it a day — unless you continue on to the blueblazed Mattabesett Trail, which spans across the western portion of the preserve, connecting at Crooked Hill Road. (The 50-mile long Mattabesett Trail is part of the 215-mile long New England National Scenic Trail [NET] system, which winds through 39 communities in Connecticut and Massachusetts.)

They don’t call it the Rockland Preserve for nothing. It has been a rocky road, but you’ll need to preserve your energy for the next hike.

Located at the end of Renee’s Way off of Rt. 79, connecting from Dorset Lane and Devonshire Lane, 3.8 miles going north from Rt. 80.

Trails range from easy to advanced Parking free year-round Trail map/guide available at site

A Dazzling Site Mica Ledges, Durham

To treat yourself to a panorama overlooking grassy open fields from hundreds of feet in the air is a rare indulgence in Connecticut. To admire the view atop a giant, shimmering formation of stone glazed with patches of mica and quartz glistening under the sun is the real treasure. That best describes the Mica Ledges of Durham, where the view is well worth the strenuous trek to the mountain top.

There are several sections of the ledges that offer scenic overlooks of Durham’s hills and farmland, in which visitors can recline on the wide rock formation under the shadowing pitch pines. The highest ledge view is the last on the path bearing right, where the ledge stretches in a large, open descent in the direction of the field view, where hikers can steadily walk down and admire the glimmering mica embedded in the endless rock that surrounds them. This is the ultimate spot to stop for a peaceful lunch, overseeing the beautiful stretches of land below.

Continuing along the blue trail, trekkers will face a rocky incline that slants left as they venture up through mountain-laurel thickets and mossy stones. Heading back down you will pass large cave formations and have the option to follow orange blazes (undesignated on the map) through the giant rock clusters, or travel left to return to the entrance.

This site, owned jointly by the Madison Land Conservation Trust and the Middlesex Land Conservation Trust, provides hikers not only with memorable vistas, but a taste of history. The two designated trails are all you need to experience the nearly 100-acre area with all of its noted features.

South of the Mica Ledges off the blueblazed trail offers a glimpse of history, where visitors can peer at a formation of rocks known as the Selectmen’s Stones, marking the land where Durham, Guilford and Madison meet.

The stones are marked with dates and initials of former town officials engraved on their surfaces which date to the 1800s, marking their proof of inspection for the town boundaries.

Beginning from the Cream Pot Road entrance, you can follow the flat, unmarked main trail to the red or blue blazes (both between one and two miles), which lead to the ledges and intersect. The trails offer a steady walk through the woods until you head up to the ledges. Following the red trail,

If scenic views and glistening rocks bore you, (or if you find yourself exhausted from the craggy terrain), try the next hike, which is a little less challenging — and a bit more refreshing.

Located at the end of Cream Pot Road in Durham off of Rt. 77 Trails range from easy to advanced Parking free year-round Map available at Middlesexlandtrust. org or Madisonlandtrust.org

A Cascade You Won’t Soon Forget Lake Mohegan Open Space Area, Fairfield Once covered with endless hemlock and full northern hardwoods when Fairfield was first settled in the 17 th century, Lake Mohegan and its surrounding now serve visitors with much more than flora.

With trails, lakes, waterfalls and open rocky ground, Lake Mohegan seems to posses it all. Reaching an elevation peak at about 270 feet above sea level east of the lake, the 170-acre area offers an eclectic selection of hikes around its perimeter.

There are two primary blazes to follow at this ground, which are accompanied by unmarked paths here and there. What is reassuring, despite the growing sense of reluctance you may feel on your trek to the top of the elevations on either side, is that the trails encircle the 17-acre lake, leaving little likelihood of losing one’s way.

Following the easy red-blazed trail (1.6 miles long) from the public beach area of the park, you will stay close to the lake and river, passing gracefully trickling water as you make your way next to the rocky waterbed off the path. You will come across a narrow, wooden-planked path hugging the water’s edge, soon leading to a small open field accompanied with sumptious trees on its perimeter. At this point you can spot the remains of an old wheelbarrow, almost creating a farmland scene on the sun-drenched grassy plane.

Continuing on, you will eventually reach the little waterfalls, known as the Cascades. You can hear the babbling water traveling down the bedrocks as you approach the river, giving guidance to this refreshing spot right off of the trail. The falls are surrounded by

dramatic rock outcroppings, leaving room to maneuver down toward the riverbed and rest next to the misty rapids. Around the area you can walk over smooth, giant rock surfaces that connect back to the woods.

Not much farther down, there is a wooden bridge crossing over the moving water, leading you to the other side of the river. This is a fine spot to snap a photo of the soothing stream passing under the rustic structure.

At almost any point you can veer off of the red trail to the yellow-blazed trail, which differs from the red not only in the surrounding scenery, but in elevation and level of difficulty.

On the eastern section of the park, you can follow a short blue-blazed trail connecting the red to the yellow, which (surprise!) provides a tiny challenge hiking up the rock bundles poking out of the incline. Once you’ve reached the 2.5 mile-long yellow trail, you will walk around twisting rock and tree bunches,

heading up and down until the ground levels to a tall, grassy path near a venerable wooden electrical tower. You can see the connecting tower in the distance across the hillside and take the time to admire the high ground you’ve attained.

Once you’ve progressed back down the hill, you will come to a small pond surrounded by shrubs, providing little open areas leading to the calm water. You can follow the yellow blazes all the way around, back to the site entrance, or switch over to the red trail just past the bridge, leading you to the Cascades. Just be sure not to go cascading down the hill on your way.

With all the site has to offer, the highlight is undoubtedly the waterfalls.

The space is the perfect place to go for a casual stroll along the water or venture on a journey to new heights (literally). Regardless of where you’re traveling, the blazes are never too far from the lake. And the best part, you can even bring your dog.

Main entrance at 960 Morehouse Hwy., Fairfield Trails range from easy to advanced Has lake beach swimming, sprinkler park and picnicking areas Parking free year-round. Fee for swimming and sprinkler park areas from Memorial Day-Labor Day. Maps available at Fairfield Town Hall

A Scenic Journey to the Past

Menunkatuck Trail, Guilford Trekking through winding forests, up jagged hills and between narrow rock fixtures has its rewards, but sometimes it’s more pleasing to settle for a simple roam through a meadow.

Of course, not many trails pass by

open farm pastures and historical homes nestled along old Indian grounds. However, one particular trail leads to all of that — the Menunkatuck Trail.

The trail was named for what used to be the considered Menunkatuck area, now Guilford and Madison, when the Puritans first settled in Guilford in the mid-17 th century, according to Paul Mei, volunteer and manager for the Menunkatuck Trail. Menunkatuck was the name of the Native American family that originally inhabited the area. The trail is managed by the Connecticut Forest & Park Association, and has been growing over the last 12 years, as Clare Cain, trail stewardship director for the Connecticut Forest & Park Association, explains.

Almost complete, the entire blueblazed trail extends about 17 miles from the end of the Mattabesett Trail in North Guilford to Chittenden Park on Long Island Sound. The trail was created so the New England Trail

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could extend to Long Island Sound, according to Mei. Different sections of the trail vary in the scenery they afford hikers. One of the most distinctive is the area just past Route 1 in Guilford, heading north toward Clapboard Hill Road. On this route you will be walking on quiet town roads until you reach a preserve.

Starting at Tanner Marsh Road, you will pass a farm property showcasing a grassy field next to a venerable red barn structure with a sign that reads, “Hay for Sale.” Passing the wooden picket fence and barn, you will come across a number of houses in a historic section of Guilford. On the left, a century-old structure sits nestled next to broken clusters of stone walls dispersed sporadically on the property.

To the right you will see thickets of small pine trees extending in the distance behind a more modern stone wall, just off the East River. At the right time of day, you can look over a paved bridge and see the river curve into the sunset, framed by marsh-like grassland on each side.

Once you reach the East River Preserve, you will tackle a short and narrow hike to a small vista overlooking the preserve’s glistening water from a flat cliff. Bearing right, you can walk alongside a stream leading you to a stacked-rock cave structure with a waterfall tumbling down its side. A square section of the giant rock is carved just next to the falling water, leaving room for the curious trekker to crouch onto the rocks that rest among the rapids.

The trail is perfect for those stricken with wanderlust, as there are numerous spots to pause along the way that offer a taste of nature at its most pristine.

Further into the preserve you will encounter a large formation of jumbled rocks, squeezing your feet through miniature boulders as the land slightly inclines and sinks back down.

This section allows you to walk around the rocks as well, leading back to the main, winding blue-blazed path.

You will briefly pass over a town road to get to another section of the woods,

where towering thickets of mountain laurel hug the trail on each side, creating near arches with their curving branches.

Exiting the woods you will emerge into a generous meadow, surrounded by what appear to be evergreens that are dispersed in a dividing section in the middle as well. The field extends into wide, defined hills ideal for frolicking in the open land or picnicking under the sky. The panoramic view is truly spectacular.

If you still have a hunger for that sense of middle-of-the-woods peace and solitude, make your way to the Cockaponset State Forest entrance of the trail off of Route 80 in Guilford.

This is about a two-mile hike leading to Race Hill Road that passes glacial erratics, endless towering trees and a wooden bridge crossing over a small brook.

vistas. Take a hike, already! Many more hidden gems await.

Begin at Guilford Train Station or Cockaponset State Forest entrance off Rt. 80 Trails range from easy to advanced Parking free year-round Maps available at ctwoodlands.org • Remember the “cotton kills” principle: Avoid the moisture-trapping material which ceases to keep you insulated and instead conducts heat away from the body.

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Tips for the Hiker’s Soul

Robert White, a national leader for the Appalachian Mountain Club who leads hiking and kayaking trips in the U.S., has created an interactive online guide of 24 hikes in the Guilford area, including the Menunkatuck Trail/East River Preserve, Mica Ledges and Rockland.

Expanding on the “Ten Essentials” survival items first described by the Mountaineers hiking club in the 1930s, David Boone, chair of the Trails Committee for the Connecticut chapter of the Appalachian Mountain Club, recommends the following tips for any level hiker to keep in mind:

In greater detail, you can refer to his page at EveryTrail.com, where the guide includes descriptions of the trail sites, suggested paths, photos, linked trail maps and Google Map popouts highlighting the recommended routes.

• Be prepared for unexpected events

His page, “Wild Places in Guilford, Connecticut: Hiking Trails,” also provides a brief history about Guilford and its land ownership, as well as trails and properties that run through it. — J.G.

• Have the proper equipment and clothing. For example, oftentimes snow/ice remains in the woods after it has melted everywhere else, which hikers should look out for and have traction devices ready for their boots.

• Don’t try to travel faster than the speed you would maintain if you were walking and talking at the same time (although of course, everyone differs in his/her idea of a comfortable pace).

• Remember the “cotton kills” principle: Avoid the moisture-trapping material which ceases to keep you insulated and instead conducts heat away from the body.

• Follow the “leave no trace” principle: Hikers should make no permanent impact on the landscape over which they travel.

10 Essentials A map A compass Sunglasses/sunscreen Extra food and water Extra clothing Flashlight First-aid kit Fire starter Matches Knife

• Have fun no matter what the conditions. — J.G.

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The Bird and the Word @ Edgewood Park Photos and descriptions by Westville resident and outdoors aficinado (see cover) Lesley Roy.

“Throughout the ages Ravens prove to be auspicious harbingers of change and in twos or more they are said to bring good fortune- having my camera to capture this unusual sighting of a playful posse, along the West River was fortunate timing indeed.”

KILDEER PLOVER “Sitting on four well camouflaged eggs along the bank of the West River, this mama was sweating out the summer heat last August. “

BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERON “Fishing in Center Pond by Coogan Pavilion, located at the Westville Village side of Edgewood Park.... The slipperly little tadpole escaped.”

RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER Numerous along the West River in Edgewood Park

“I patiently waited for two hours to capture the flight shot of this Great Egret perched on a dead tree in Center Pond by Coogan Pavilion, located at the Westville Village side of Edgewood Park.”

“The morning after Hurricane Sandy, I went out to access the damage and found a windswept Kingfisher having a bad hair day sitting stunned on a felled tree in Center Pond by Coogan Pavilion, located at the Westville Village side of Edgewood Park. “

EASTERN PHOEBE REARING COWBIRD CHICK “This Eastern Phoebe mama bird flew in to dutifly feed her chick a dragonfly meal. It wasn’t until I got home and uploaded the pics that I noticed how much larger the baby bird was compared to the mama. I sent them off to the Cornell Ornithology Lab and they confirmed that it was indeed a Cowbird chick. It is quite common for Cowbirds to lay their eggs in another birds’ nest to raise, but it is unusual to capture a shot of such a proud Eastern Phoebe rearing what she thinks is her own chick at Center Pond by Coogan Pavilion, located at the Westville Village side of Edgewood Park.”

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becoming a fine artist in a medium very few can master. We asked him about his techniques and personal journey.

For more than 30 years, Mark Kruger laid stone as a commercial contractor. Two years ago, at age 55, he decided to burnish a new self image and began an effort to forge a new career creating decorative art pieces out of stones from across the globe.

Before Kruger realized it his new career was pulling in yet another direction has he developed his own techniques to cut, bond and install the stone into the piece. Moving from craftsman to decorative artist, Kruger finds himself on trial working toward

What got you into craftsmanship in the first place?

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In my 20s I got into stonework with high-end [residential] installations — fancy bathrooms, shower stalls, backsplashes. Interior stonework. Now that’s been phased out; I’m focusing exclusively on the artwork. It was a [consequence] of aging: I just physically can’t do the work anymore. But there was a continuous

loss of motivation doing installation work. You end up having to follow or install what other people perceive as being aesthetic or attractive, and it typically isn’t.

What motivated you to change your career path?

The original premise, and it’s still part of a bigger plan, was to provide the marketplace with a product line that was artistic at one end and functional at the other end. To devise a product line of high-end artistic…maybe inserts, borders, panels that could be implemented for interior use [in] high-end residential and perhaps commercial [applications]. Now I more enjoy doing the artwork exclusively. The artwork is more the murals and big pieces. They could be functional, I would prefer the artwork to be marketed as freestanding that I could bring to shows. But actually at this point, I’m not really even interested in selling the artwork. I really want it for people to enjoy, but I never expected the artwork to be a revenue stream.

How are the techniques of what you do different from regular stonework?

Stone installation is relatively restrictive: You’re just cutting, polishing and installing stone according to very rudimentary patterns. This NEWHAVENMAGAZINE.COM N NEW EW W HA HAV H AV A V ENM E NM N AGA A GA A ZI ZIN Z IIN E.C E .COM .C C OM OM

Kruger: ‘Unfortunately, we have a culture that applies functionality to crafts only. [Now] artwork has to be so far removed from functionality to be artwork.’

work, there’s more precision in the cutting.

I’ve evolved processes where I can cut stone extremely thin; I can layer stone. I’m at a point where I’m layering and making my own colors of stone. Typically I take different kinds of translucent onyxes and bond them to multicolored stones underneath. Then I slice the onyx very thin so I can just change the shades of the colors underneath. I can make a dark green stone a medium light green that doesn’t even exist in nature.

Is there another artist or craftsperson from whom you drew inspiration I don’t know anyone who’s doing it. [The techniques had to be invented] as my artwork gets more sophisticated. Granite is harder than marble, marble harder than limestone, limestone probably the same as an onyx. They’re relatively workable stones — that’s why they’re used in the residential industry, as opposed to gemstones which are extremely hard. The equipment is still the same: I use diamond wet saws to do my cutting. It’s how I manage the stone in the cutting process. I can stabilize the blade to such a point so I can cut the stone literally paper-thin.

What is your philosophy regarding exhibiting your work?

The objective is for me to introduce what I’m doing with my product line as well. The biggest piece is the original waterfall piece, which is 6.5 feet tall by three feet wide. That took three months pretty much focused day-in, day-out.

I was developing not just the techniques for cutting the stone, but I was also developing artistic techniques for replicating components.

There were 1,500 pieces of stone that had to be

cut, beveled and polished to make the piece.

Usually we see the stone around waterfall but not the water itself.

The original premise for doing the tropical waterfall was to start experimenting with onyxes.

Onyx stone seemed to lend itself well to the creation of water.

Someone might say this looks like a mosaic ashtray.

The difference is not just the sheer size or sophistication of what I create relative to an ashtray, most people do tie it in to a preconceived notion of a mosaic, that’s just a matter of taking a handful of broken pieces similar in size and forming that to an impression.

My work starts with draftsmanship: A drawing has to be done first, and then the pieces are fit together so precisely that they go together without grout, without airspaces.

How do you make everything adhere together?

It is cemented to a background panel but there is no grouting to hold it together. The stone is put together with such precision you don’t see any lines, so you don’t need to fill any spaces. The stones butt together in my artwork, and that’s typically not how stonework is installed in the field.

What was your first hurdle?

Before you put the first piece of stone on the permanent board, you start to run into issues trying to reconcile the limitations of stone with what you envision. Your creativity always exceeds your medium, so you have to start reconciling right away — ‘What can I capture in neeew new n w ha h haven ave ven v en n

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potential [of] using stone as an artistic medium..

What do you want someone to see?

I have my three priorities of what I would like my artwork to accomplish. But first and foremost, I have an intense belief that artwork should be a matter of communication. You should be able to communicate something through your artwork to your viewer. So each piece has its own messaging.

You’re also doing abstract work. Is that a reaction to criticism of your other pieces being decorative?

The desire to do abstract pieces was probably an initial imperative. I started doing the natural pieces because they supplied very specific challenges for how I had to develop the technique of using stones. When you branch out and do abstract work, it allows you an infinite amount of flexibility as to the type of messaging that you can do.

Which is the bigger challenge: to communicate in an abstract format, or to create techniques to communicate in either format? my subject matter effectively with stone?’ There are strengths and weaknesses: Stone has very specific weaknesses, but it also has phenomenal strengths, so you want to identify the strengths of the stone and incorporating that into your conceptualizing process. So getting accustomed to what you can accomplish with stone as an artistic medium was the first hurdle.

How have people reacted to your work so far?

Most people are captivated by the sheer amount of time that has to go into creating not just the size but the elaborate nature of the work. It’s the sheer shock value of seeing so much time and energy [invested in] the work piece. They’re captivated by aesthetics later, and maybe the

They’re equally challenging, but in two opposite areas of the artistic spectrum. When you do abstract work, you have to commit to a lot of preliminary thought. The layout, the time, the concept — all the energy is upfront. When you do a natural work, it becomes more a commitment to a longer process of actually creating the piece. When I do an abstract, more time and energy goes into conceiving the piece.

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Can this craft be considered fine art?

That’s more an individual definition, but the art community would probably tell you that there has to be a rigid separation between craft and art. Where I run into a problem is, the more I started applying the stone in a unique format where I’m creating these panels, members of the art community jump to the conclusion that what you’re doing is a craft, because it’s not a traditional format they have familiarity with. ‘Is this a craft like a mosaic?’ ‘Is it a sculpture like fine art?’ Well, no — it’s in-between. If it’s an artist that’s relatively enlightened, they push it into the art category.

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I believe that the moment your work seems to have a function — like a vase, or a stainedglass window — that it’s useable and has a purpose outside of just hanging on the wall and being artwork, than it gets assigned into the craft category. I think that any time you put in an inordinate amount of work and you master a particular artistic medium and you’ve demonstrated artistic competency, your work is artwork. Unfortunately, we have a culture that applies functionality to crafts only. When the art community worked very diligently to free itself from being tied to architecture, there was solid reasoning behind that. But the pendulum has swung so far in one direction that [now] artwork has to be so far removed from functionality to be artwork.

Is there a particular stone you like working with most?

If I had two favorites it would be onyxes and marble, only because the composition of the stone is more fluid. Onyx offers attributes like translucency and transparency. Marble just seems to have very nice homogenous, fluid aspects. Marble can be translucent. If you can get it thin enough you can shine light behind it and create really fascinating effects, which is a direction I want to go on the product line and maybe even ultimately in my artwork is to incorporate the use of backlighting to highlight aspects.

Then you’ll really be in the decorative world.

I’ll be a lampshade as opposed to an ashtray! Y

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ART Opening The Lyme Art Association hosts its 92nd annual Elected Artist Exhibition, a juried show. April 26-June 9 at Cooper/Ferry, South and Cole Galleries, Lyme Art Association, 90 Lyme St., Lyme.

Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Fri., 1-5 p.m. Sun. Free. 860-434-7802, lymeartassociation.org.

Stony Creek Granite: Sculpture in Stone includes sculpture and artworks fabricated from Stony Creek granite. April 26-June 2 at Mill Gallery, 411 Church St., Guilford. Open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. daily, noon-4 p.m. Sun. Free. 203-453-5947, guilfordartcenter.org.

Views of New England, Rosemary Benivegna watercolors.

May 1-June 30 Orange Town Hall Gallery, 617 Orange Center Rd., Orange. Open 8:30-4:30 p.m. daily. Free. 203-798-4970, orange-ct. gov.

Birds Watching is an exhibition of multimedia drawings by Paulette Rosen. May 2-June 2 at City Gallery, 994 State St., New Haven. Open noon-4 p.m. Thurs.-Sun. Free. 203-782-2489, citygallery.org.

Horizons: New Work by Robert Reynolds is an exhibition of new work by gallery owner Robert Reynolds. A product of numerous visits to the Netherlands, Reynolds’ new body of oil paintings and monoprints includes vivid Dutch landscapes as its subject. May 3-June 4 at Reynolds Fine Art, 96 Orange St., New Haven. Open noon-5 p.m. Tues.-Thurs., noon-6 p.m. Fri.-Sat. Free. 203-498-2200, reynoldsfineart.com.

Works by Jan Cunningham and Elizabeth Gourlay. Through April 27 at Giampietro Gallery, Bldg. 4, Erector Square, 315 Peck St., New Haven. Open noon-5 p.m. Free. 203-777-7760, giampietrogallery.com.

Six Good Reasons features collage/mixed media by Regina M. Thomas, still-life in oil by Laurie Marchessault, colorful birds in watercolor by Sharon R. Morgio, pastels and oils by Ralph R. Schwartz, unique pottery by Margaret Ulecka Wilson and sculptures and tile paintings by Peter A. Radosta. Through April 27 at Elm City Artists Gallery, 55 Whitney Ave., New Haven. Open 10 a.m-6 p.m. daily except Sun. Free. 203-922-2359, elmcityartists. com.

Uptown is a photographic exhibition of new work by Tom Peterson. Through April 28 at City Gallery, 994 State St., New Haven. Free. Open noon-4 p.m. Thurs.-Sun. Free. 203-782-2489, city-gallery.org.

More Roxyshow is an exhibition of monoprints on paper and metal focusing on celestial and swimmer themes by Roxanne Faber Savage. Through May 1 at the Orison Project, 8 Railroad Ave., Witch Hazel Complex, Building 7, Essex. Open 1-5 p.m. Wed.Fri., 1-6 p.m. Sat. Free. 860-767-7572, theorisonproject.com.

The Dance of Life is an exhibition of works by Aaron Collins.

Through May 5 at Atticus Bookstore Café, 1082 Chapel St., New Haven. Open 7 a.m.-9 p.m. weekdays, 7 a.m.-10 p.m. Sat., 8 a.m.9 p.m. Sun. Free. 203-776-4040, atticusbookcafe.com.

New Beginnings, a group show of gallery artists featuring Dolph LeMoult. Through May 6 at Greene Art Gallery, 29 Whitfield St., Guilford. Open 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Thurs.-Sat.; noon-3 p.m. Sun.-Mon. Free. 203-453-4162, greeneartgallery.com Birds and Bears features Charles Kingsley’s wild life photography of birds and bears. Through May 6 at Kehler Liddell Gallery, 873 Whalley Ave., New Haven. Open 11 a.m.-4

p.m. Thurs.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat.-Sun. Free. 203-389-9555, kehlerliddell.com.

Annual Still Life Invitational features works by Kathy Anderson, Carol Arnold, and Stephanie Birdsall. Through May 11 at Susan Powell Fine Art, 679 Boston Post Rd., Madison. Open 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed.-Fri., noon-6 p.m. Sat., noon-3 p.m. Sun. Free.

203-318-0616, susanpowellfineart.com.

Not Specialized: Watercolors and Oil Paintings by Matty Dagradi. Through May 22 at the Ives Main Library, 133 Elm St., New Haven. Open 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Mon.-Thurs., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Fri.-Sat. Free. 203-387-4933, nhfpl.org.

Artist Take Action: Protest Posters Today. This exhibition examines the resurgence of protest posters today, whether advocating for climate-change issues, reproductive rights, gender rights or treatment for war veterans. Included are works by more than 50 artists from around the U.S. and internationally. Through May 26 at Davison Art Center, 283 Washington Terr., Middletown. Open noon-4 p.m. daily except Mon. Free. 860-685-2806, wesleyan.edu/cfa.

Traces of Life: Seen Through Korean Eyes, 1945-1992 is an exhibition featuring 27 photographs taken by the first generation of Korean realists, 13 pioneers whose works evoke nostalgia for a nation undergoing a radical transition from its past. Through May 26 at Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies Gallery, 343 Washington Terr., Middletown. Open noon-4 p.m. daily except Mon. Free. 860-685-3355, wesleyan/edu.cfa.

Arthur Heming: Chronicler of the North chronicles the career of artist, author and illustrator Arthur Heming (1870-1940). An avid northern explorer, his work helped to entrench perceptions of Canada as the “Great White North.” Through June 2 at Florence Griswold Museum, 96 Lyme St., Old Lyme. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. $9 ($8 seniors, $7 students, 12 & under free). 860-434-5542, flogris.com.

Valerie Brennan: No Chance of Rain (paintings) and Joseph Fucigna: Ebb and Flow (multimedia). May 3-June 1 at Fred Giampietro Gallery, 315 Peck St., New Haven. Open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tues.-Fri., 11 a.m.- 4 p.m. Sat. Free. 203-777-7760, giampietrogallery.com.

The Right to Bear Arms: Artists Respond is a multimedia exhibition of works by 25 artists, each responding to this statement as they wish. May 9-26 at Kehler Liddell Gallery, 873 Whalley Ave., New Haven. Open 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Thurs.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat.-Sun. Free. 203-389-9555, kehlerliddell.com.

Trashed, an exhibition of paintings by Janet Lage. May 10-June 29 at the Orison Project, 8 Railroad Ave., Witch Hazel Complex, Building 7, Essex. Open 1-5 p.m. Wed.-Fri., 1-6 p.m. Sat. Free. 860767-7572, theorisonproject.com.

‘Toonskin is an exhibition exploring depictions of blackness in animated and sequential art, curated by artist Kenya Robinson.

May 10-June 30 at Artspace, 50 Orange St., New Haven. Open noon-6 p.m. Wed.-Thurs., noon-8 p.m. Fri.-Sat. Free. 203-772-2709, artspacenh.org.

Strange Beauty: The Photography of Carolyn Marks Blackwood.

June 9-September 8 at Mattatuck Museum Arts & History Center, 144 W. Main St., Waterbury. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat., noon5 p.m. Sun. $5 ($4 seniors, children under 16 free). 203-753-0381, mattatuckmuseum.org.

Gallery One Group Show features work of mid-career artists in a wide variety of media and styles, from representational to abstract, in photography, printmaking, painting, sculpture and ceramics. June 9-30 at Mill Gallery, Guilford Art Center, 411 Church St., Guilford. Open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.-Sat., noon-4 p.m.

Sun. Free. 203-453-5947, guilfordartcenter.org.

Continuing The Hamden Art League’s 58th annual Goldenbells Art Exhibition of works by members and non-members includes original art in oil, acrylic, pastel, watercolor, printmaking and mixed media. Through April 25 at Miller Memorial Library Senior Center, 2901 Dixwell Ave., Hamden. Open 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. daily. Free. 203-494-2316, hamdenartleague.com.

Tom Peterson: Urban Documentary Photography. Through April 26 at City Gallery, 994 State St., New Haven. Open noon-4 p.m. Thurs.-Sun. Free. 203-782-2489, city-gallery.org.

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Eight artists including Patti Anos (pictured) explore their relationships with the natural world in the Arts Council-sponsored exhibition On Nature, at Whitney Center through June 30.

The work of Arthur Heming (1870-1940) helped to created a mythical vision of Canada as an untamed ‘Great White North.’ Works by this idiosyncratic artist (for one thing, he was color-blind) are on view in Arthur Heming: Chronicler of the North through June 2 at the Florence Griswold Museum. Pictured: ‘In Canada’s Fairyland’ (1930), oil on canvas.

Paintings and photographs by Ethan Boisvert and Mark K. St. Mary are presented by the Arts Council of Greater New Haven. Through June 14 at Gallery 195, 195 Church St., 4th fl., New Haven. Open 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.-Wed., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Thurs.-Fri. Free. 203-772-2788, newhavenarts.org.

made significant contribution to modernism including Constantin Brancusi, Paul Klee, Piet Mondrian and Joseph Stella. Through June 23 at Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St., New Haven. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily except Mon. (until 8 p.m. Thurs.) 1-6 p.m. Sun. Free.

203-432-0600, artgalleryinfo@yale.edu.

practice. The sketches in this show have been taken from Purves’ Roman sketchbooks.

Through June 28 at Whitney Humanities Center 53 Wall St., New Haven. Open 3-5 p.m. Mon. & Wed. Free. 203-432-0670, yale.edu/whc.

Société Anonyme: Modernism for America features works by more than 100 artists who

Alexander Purves: Roman Sketches afford the viewer glimpses into the artist’s own drawing

The Arts Council of Greater New Haven presents On Nature, featuring works by

Aspasia Patti Anos, Anna Bresnick, Laurie Flaherty, Michael Galvin, Sarah Macaslin, Paulette Rosen, Kyle Skar and Balam Soto.

Through June 30 at Perspectives, the Gallery at Whitney Center, 200 Leeder Hill Dr., Hamden.

Open 4-7 p.m. Tues. & Thurs., 1-4 p.m. Sat. Free.

203-772-2788, newhavenarts.org.

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MUSIC Classical The Yale Glee Club anchors the always delightful New Haven High Schools Choral Festival, featuring the Elm City’s brightest and best young choral artists. 7 p.m. April 23 at Woolsey Hall, 500 College St., New Haven. Free. 203-432-4158, music.yale.edu.

Conducted by Masaaki Suzuki, J.S. Bach’s monumental Mass in B minor is performed by the Yale School of Music’s preeminent vocal ensemble, Schola Cantorum, Julliard 415 and members of the Yale Baroque Ensemble. 8 p.m. April 26 at Woolsey Hall, 500 College St., New Haven. Free. 203-432-4158, music.yale.edu.

The New Haven Symphony Orchestra presents Angels & Demons. Heaven and Earth collide in Elgar’s masterwork, The Dream of Gerontius (Op. 38), inspired by the poetry of Cardinal Newman. Woolsey Hall will reverberate with 300 voices singing Gerontius’ ecstatic devotion. With the Mendelssohn Choir of Connecticut and the Hartford Chorale. NHSO Music Director William Boughton directs. 7:30 p.m. May 2 at Woolsey Hall, 500 College St., New Haven. $69-$15. (Program repeated 7:30 p.m.

May 3 at Cathedral of St. Joseph, 140 Farmington Ave., Hartford.)

203-865-0831, newhavensymphony.org.

Conductor Marguerite L. Brooks leads the Yale Camerata and Yale Glee Club in a May 3 performance of the music of Edward Elgar and contemporaries at Marquand Chapel.

Elgar & Contemporaries. Under the baton of Marguerite L. Brooks, the Yale Camerata and Yale Glee Club perform Elgar part-songs and more. 5 p.m. May 3 at Marquand Chapel, 409 Prospect St., New Haven. Free. 203-432-4158, music.yale.edu.

Under the artistic direction of Doris Yarick-Cross, Yale Opera presents Tchaikovsky’s one-act opera Iolanta. This “richly melodious opera” (New York Times) was a great success upon its premiere but has become “unfairly obscure” (Boston Globe).

Michael Gieleta, stage director; Timothy Shaindlin, musical director. 8 p.m. May 3-4 at Sprague Hall, 470 College St., New Haven. $15-$10 ($5 students). 203-432-4158, music.yale.edu.

The Yale Baroque Opera Project presents La Calisto, an opera

by Francesco Cavalli. Sarah Peterson, stage director; Grant Herried, musical direction; Robert Mealey, orchestral direction.

5 p.m. May 4-5 at University Theatre, 222 York St., New Haven.

Free. 203-432-4158, ybop.yale.edu.

The Yale School of Music’s annual Chamber Music Competition selects the finest performances from the School of Music: STEVEN STUCKY Sonate en forme de preludes for oboe, horn and harpsichord. POULENC Sextet in C Major for winds and piano. SCHUBERT Fantasia in F minor, D. 940 for violin and piano. BARTÓK Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion.

8 p.m. May 7 at Sprague Hall, 470 College St., New Haven. $15$10 ($5 students). 203-432-4158, music.yale.edu.

yale institute of sacred music presents

Carlota Duarte: Respeto/Respect Respect for beliefs, religions, and rituals in Chiapas, México may 7–july 2 ism gallery of sacred arts 409 prospect st., new haven Free, and free parking.

Tuesday–Friday · 3–6 pm Weekends · Noon–4 pm closed holidays reception with carlota duarte Thursday, June 13 · 4:30–6 pm Pedro Santiz Giron, Los Rezardores de la Fiesta de Agua en la Canada Chica en Tenejapa (The Prayer Leaders of the Water Celebration in the Canada Chica Area in Tenejapa), 2012.

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‘Tis the season: The Yale Symphony Orchestra performs its annual Commencement Concert. 6 p.m. May 17 at Battell Chapel, 400 College St., New Haven. Free. 203-432-4140, music.yale.edu.

The next night the Yale Glee Club ups the ante with its own Commencement Concert. 8 p.m. May 18 at Sprague Hall, 470 College St., New Haven. $12 ($10 students). 203-432-4135, music. yale.edu.

On the eve of graduation comes the final musical event of the 2012-13 academic year, the Yale Concert Band Twilight Concert.

Thomas C. Duffy directs. 7 p.m. May 19 on Old Campus, Yale University, New Haven. Free. 203-432-4158, music.yale.edu.

Popular Popular children’s entertainer Raffi (“Baby Beluga,” “Down By the Bay”) comes to College Street for a special family concert.

7 p.m. April 29 at Shubert Theater, 247 College St., New Haven. $58-$28. 203-562-5666, shubert.com.

The Craig Taborn Trio will give its first performance at Firehouse 12 after pianist/leader Craig Taborn and the group spent eight years writing and performing songs for its new album Chant before entering the studio to record them. The trio will perform an early and a late show at the cool Ninth Square bar. 8:30 & 10 p.m. May 3 at Firehouse 12, 45 Crown St.,

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alternative rock band the Pixies, but has maintained a solo career for the past 20 years.

He brings that signature stabbing howl of a voice of his into town for a special show at the still-fresh Spaceland Ballroom in Hamden with opener Reid Paley. 8 p.m. May 15 at Spaceland Ballroom 295 Treadwell St., Hamden. $20. 203288-6400, theouterspace.net Blues singer Brownbird Rudy Relic started his career busking on street corners across the country before eventually settling in New York to hone his unique acoustic holler blues that fuses the blues with ragtime and doo-wop, among other styles. He has since performed on stages all over the world, and brings his show to the City of Elms. 8 p.m. May 16 at Café Nine, 250 State St., New Haven. $5. 203-7898281, cafenine.com.

Blues singer Brownbird Rudy Relic started his career busking on street corners across the country before moving to New York to hone his acoustic holler blues style. On May 16 he rocks the Nine.

New Haven. $18-$12. 203-785-0468, firehouse12. com.

The Hagaman Memorial Library will host the uplifting sounds of The Salt & Pepper Gospel Singers. The ensemble has performed at prisons, elderly housing facilities, churches, schools and charitable organizations as well as at renowned theaters in New York, the steps of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., and even on NBC’s Today Show. 2 p.m.

May 4 at Hagaman Memorial Library, 227 Main St., East Haven. Free; register at 203-468-3890.

Few rock ‘n’ roll bands have as signature a sound and look as ZZ Top. The sharp-dressed men come to Wallingford with guitars twirling for a night of classic Texas rock. Openers JD and the Straight Shot are noteworthy for a different reason: Frontman “JD” is James Dolan, president/CEO of Cablevision, which owns (among other properties) Madison Square Garden, the New York Knicks, Rangers and much, much more. 7:30 p.m. May 5 at Oakdale Theatre, 95 South Turnpike Rd., Wallingford. $38-$48. 203-265-1501, oakdale. com.

Singer-songwriter Kevin Devine and Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull are Bad Books, and on their second collaboration (Bad Books II) the two continue to explore tendencies ranging from stadium rock to pop to balladry and psychedelia. The duo brings its eclectic full-band live show to Hamden.

7 p.m. May 6 at the Space, 295 Treadwell St., Hamden. $17. 203-288-6400, thespace.tk.

Whichever musical category you care to place them in, legendary Earth, Wind & Fire will make a stop in the Brass City with an impressive lineup and long list of hits under its belt for what may surely be a “Boogie Wonderland.” 7:30 p.m. May 8 at The Palace Theater, 100 E. Main St., Waterbury. $80-$60.

203-346-2000, palacetheatrect.com.

Asleep At the Wheel has been proudly waving the Western Swing music flag since 1969, avoiding the mainstream and nabbing a whopping nine Grammy Awards in the process. The band does its thing at the Kate for what will likely be a rollickin’ good time.

7:30 p.m. May 9 at Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook. $55.

877-503-1286, katharinehepburntheater.org.

Reunited grunge giants Soundgarden bring their tour in support of last year’s album King Animal to Connecticut. The band’s hard-hitting edge should nicely wash the taste of singer Chris Cornell’s solo career out of our mouths.

8 p.m. May 17 at Oakdale Theatre, 95 South Turnpike Rd., Wallingford. $75-$35. 203-265-1501, oakdale.com.

Pioneering pop-punk band New Found Glory are celebrating the tenth anniversary of release of their Sticks and Stones album by hitting the road and performing the record in its entirety.

The group brings the party to the Elm City with a stop at the Toad, joined by openers Cartel. 8 p.m. May 18 at Toad’s Place, 300 York St., New Haven. $23. 203-624-8623, toadsplace.com.

Illinois punk-rockers Alkaline Trio makes a return visit to Toad’s Place as part of an extensive spring tour with sold-out shows

across the country. 8 p.m. May 18 at Toad’s Place, 300 York St., New Haven. $21. 203-6248623, toadsplace.com.

Portland, Ore.-based post-pop-punk trio The Thermals will hit up the Space in support of its recently-released sixth album Desperate Ground, which the band finished recording in New Jersey mere hours before Hurricane Sandy struck. Last year, the band celebrated ten years together. 7 p.m. May 24 at the Space, 295 Treadwell St., Hamden. $15. 203-288-6400, thespace.tk.

Royal Southern Brotherhood has nothing if not an impressive bloodline, boasting the South’s classic rock ‘n’ roll lineage with Devon Allman (son of the Allman Brothers’ Gregg Allman), Cyril Neville, and Charlie Wooten among its members. The group will show us Northerners how it’s done when they stop in Old Saybrook. 8 p.m. May 24 at Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook. $40. 877-503-1286, katharinehepburntheater.org.

World Wesleyan’s Chinese Music Ensemble, directed

by Huan Li, performs a variety of Chinese instrumental music--traditional, modern and hybrid. 7 p.m. May 4 at Crowell Concert Hall, 50 Wyllys Ave., Middletown. $3-$2. 860-685-3355, wesleyan.edu/cfa.

Directed by Kyunghee Kang, the Wesleyan Korean Drumming Ensemble performs a variety of traditional Korean drumming music and dance. 7 p.m. May 5 at World Music Hall, 283 Washington Terr., Middletown. $3-$2. 860685-3355, wesleyan.edu/cfa.

Being even one-third of one of the most bombastic and well-known prog-rock bands in history is good enough. Renowned Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Asia drummer Carl Palmer brings his “ELP Legacy” tour to Old Saybrook for the tour’s second-tolast night, where he and his band will rip through a barrage of ELP’s most complex and riveting instrumentals. 8 p.m. May 10 at Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook. $60. 877-503-1286, katharinehepburntheater.org.

Folky indie musician Aly Spaltro is best known by her project Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, for which she recorded the debut album in between shifts working at a video store in her hometown of Brunswick, Me. The now-Brooklyn-based singer was even named Folk Artist of the Year at the Boston Music Awards in 2010. She puts on an appropriately intimate show in New Haven at Café Nine. 9 p.m. May 10 at Cafe Nine, 250 State St., New Haven. $10. 203-789-8281, cafenine.com.

The next best thing to seeing the legendary Frank Zappa would probably have to be seeing tribute act Project/Object, which also happens to feature four original members of Zappa’s band. The group stops, appropriately, where the legends play for their Elm City date. 9 p.m. May 11 at Toad’s Place, 300 York St., New Haven. $22. 203-624-8623, toadsplace. com.

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Race and real estate collide in this Pulitzer Prize-winning new play, Clybourne Park. The action begins in 1959 Chicago when a nervous group of neighbors try to talk their friends out of selling their home to a black family. Fastforward to the same house 50 years later, sparks fly as a white family attempts to move into the now predominantly African-American neighborhood. The play examines America’s complex relationship with race with sharp humor and deep perception. May 8-June 2 at Long Wharf Theatre, 222 Sargent Dr., New Haven. $52-$42. 203-787-4282, longwharf.org.

The Fabulous Lipitones: A Not-So-Traditional Barbershop Quartet. What happens when a barbershop quartet who’s been belting out close harmonies for 20 years loses a key member to a heart-stopping high “C�? The three surviving members must cease their bickering and race to find a replacement in time for a national competition. Excitement is high when they find someone, but he’s not exactly what they expected. May 9-June 2 at the Norma Terris Theatre, 33 N. Main St., Chester. $44. 860-873-8668, goodspeed.org.

The cast of Good News!, set at Tait College where as the Big Game approaches the football hero must pass a big exam to play in the game. Through June 22 at Goodspeed.

Opening Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring, is a farcical black comedy revolving around Mortimer Brewster, a drama critic who must deal with his crazy, homicidal family and local police in Brooklyn as he debates whether to go through with his recent promise to marry the woman he loves. 8 p.m. April 20, 26, 27 & May 2-3; 2 p.m. April 21, 28 at Phoenix Stage Company, 686 Rubber Ave., Naugatuck. $22 ($18 seniors). 203-632-8546, phoenixstagecompany.com.

Crescent Players present Julius Caesar. 8 p.m. April 23-27, 2 p.m. April 28 at John Lyman Performing Arts, 501 Crescent St., New Haven. $10. 203-392-6154, tickets.southernct.edu.

Jeffrey Sichel, stage director, professor and scholar from the Shanghai Theatre Academy, has created an original, spoken English-language adaptation of Tang Xianzu’s 1598 Chinese Opera masterpiece Peony Pavilion. Students and faculty of the Wesleyan Theater Department mix traditional Kunqu opera music, dance and stylization with contemporary American performance practice to capture the essence of this epic masterpiece of the Chinese stage — a drama of love and death, reality and illusion. 8 p.m.

April 25-26, 2 & 8 p.m. April 27 at Wesleyan Center for the Arts, 329 Mount Vernon St., Middletown. $8 ($5 senior citizens). 860-6853355, wesleyan.edu/cfa.

A fantastical adventure for the whole family, Steven Dietz’ Still Life with Iris is the story of a young girl who lives with her mom in the magical land of Nocturno — a magical place in which workers make, by night, all of the things we see in the world by day, a world where memories are kept in the pockets of everyone’s coats. Elizabeth Nearing directs.

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James Graham’s This House is a political drama. It’s 1974 and the corridors of Westminster ring with the sound of infighting and backbiting as Britain’s political parties battle to change the future of the nation, whatever it takes. In this hung Parliament, the ruling party holds on by a thread. Votes are won and lost by one, fistfights erupt in the bars, and ill MPs are hauled in to cast their votes. It’s a time when a staggering

number of politicians die, and age-old traditions and allegiances are thrown aside in the struggle for power. Simulcast from the National Theatre of London. 7 p.m. May 16 at Katherine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook. $20. 860-510-0473, katherinehepburntheater.org.

A recent off-Broadway hit, A.R. Gurney’s Black Tie is a comedy about traditions and what it means to be a W.A.S.P. May 17-June 1 at Square One Theatre Company, 2422 Main St., Stratford. $20. 203-375-8778, squareonetheatre. com.

One Act Festival, New Works Series is three days of original one-act plays from around the world. Plays range in lengths from ten to 30 minutes; comedies, dramas and farces will be performed. 8 p.m. May 17-18, 2 p.m.

May 19 at Phoenix Stage Co., 686 Rubber Ave., Naugatuck. $22 ($18 seniors). 203-632-8546, phoenixstagecompany.com.

A Couple of Blaguards by Frank McCourt and Malachy McCourt is a rollicking Irish comedy filled with humor and poignancy. From their childhood in Limerick to their young adulthood as immigrants in New York, the McCourt brothers know that the best way to deal the with misadventures of growing up is to laugh at life’s absurdities. May 21-June 2 at Long Wharf Theatre, 222 Sargent Dr., New Haven. $42. 203-787-4282, longwharf.org.

Considered to be one of Broadway’s finest musical, West Side Story features such classics as “Something’s Coming,� “Tonight,� “America,� “I Feel Pretty� and “Somewhere.�

May 31-June 2 at Shubert Theater, 247 College

2 p.m. April 27 at Long Wharf Theatre, 222 Sargent Dr., New Haven. $5. 203-787-4282, longwharf.org.

When the object of his affections offhandedly comments, “Too bad you’re not a girl,� Erwin disappears to Casablanca and returns as Elvira. Now, adrift and alone, Elvira revisits the people and places of the past, desperately searching for the identity and love she’s never known in this new stage adaptation of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s New German masterpiece, In a Year with 13 Moons.

Adapted for the stage by Bill Camp and Robert Woodruff; directed by Robert Woodruff. April 26-May 18 at Yale Repertory Theatre, 1120 Chapel St., New Haven. $96-$20. 203-432-1234, yalerep.org.

Producers Marshall Cordell, Albert Samuels and Emily Dorezas present 50 Shades! The Musical, a hilarious parody of the Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon. 7:30 p.m. April 30 at Palace Theater, 100 E. Main St., Waterbury. $38.

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Based on Green Day’s Grammy awardwinning album, American Idiot is a musical tale that tells the story of three lifelong friends, forced to choose between their dreams and the safety of suburbia. 8 p.m. May 3, 2 & 8 p.m.

May 4, 1 & 6:30 p.m. May 5 at Shubert Theater, 247 College St., New Haven. $97-$12. 203-5625666, shubert.com.

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In Other People’s Money, Wall Street takeover artist Lawrence Garfinkle’s computer is going tilt over the undervalued stock of New England Wire & Cable. If the stockholders back his takeover, they will make a bundle but what will happen to the 1,200 employees and the community when he liquidates the assets? This compelling drama explores whether corporate raiders are creatures from the black lagoon of capitalism or realists. 7:30 p.m. Wed.Thurs., 8 pm. Fri.-Sat., 2 p.m. Wed. & Sun. Through May 5 at Ivoryton Playhouse, 103 Main St., Ivoryton. $40 ($35 seniors, $20 students, $15 12 & under). 860-767-7318, ivorytonplayhouse.com.

Howard Platt (left) and Jarlath Conroy play brothers and co-playwrights Malachy and Frank (Angela’s Ashes) McCourt in the comedy A Couple of Blaguards on Long Wharf’s Stage II. St., New Haven. $82-$12. 203-562-5666, shubert.com.

Dreamgirls, the story of an up-andcoming 1960s girl singing group, and the triumphs and tribulations that come with fame and fortune. Songs include “And I am Telling You I’m Not Going,” “One Night Only” and “Listen.” May 31-June 1 at Palace Theater, 100 E. Main St., Waterbury. $69-$49. 203-346-2000, palacetheaterct.org.

A brand new play from one of the writers of The Simpsons, I’m Connecticut is a wacky, fast-paced, sweet romantic comedy about Marc, a Connecticut native who struggles with relationships and feelings of inadequacy. Why? Because he comes from Connecticut — land of steady habits, sanity and politeness. 7:30 p.m. Wed.-Thurs., 8 pm. Fri.-Sat., 2 p.m.

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Anticipation builds on the Tait College campus as game day approaches but the football hero must first pass a big exam in order to play. When he unexpectedly falls for his tutor, romance blooms and hijinks ensue in the musical comedy Good News! Score includes songs such as “You’re the Cream in My Coffee,” “The Varsity Drag,” and “Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries.” Through June 22 at Goodspeed Opera House, 6 Main St., East Haddam. $80-$37. 860-873-8668, goodspeed.org.

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BELLES LETTRES New members are welcomed to the Blackstone Library Second Tuesday Book Club. The group meets on the second Tuesday to discuss a pre-selected book. Books available for loan in advance of discussion. 6:45-8 p.m. May 14 at Blackstone Library, 758 Main St., Branford. Free. 203-488-1441, ext. 318, blackstone. lioninc.org/booktalk.htm.

A Kate Classic film presentation is Little Women (1933, 115 min., USA), based on the Louisa May Alcott classic. Set in Concord, Mass. during and after the American Civil War, film is a series of vignettes focusing on the struggles and adventures of the four March sisters and their mother as they await the return of their father, who is fighting with the Union Army. Katharine Hepburn stars. 2, 4 & 7 p.m. May 23 at Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook. $8. 877-5031286, katharinehepburntheater.org.

Clark Gable and Lana Turner star in Somewhere I’ll Find You (1942, 108 min., USA). Two brothers, both war correspondents, vie for the affection of the same girl at the beginning of World War II, and later find her doing orphan work in China.

Free pizza, too! 5 p.m. May 30 at Hagaman Memorial Library, 227 Main St., East Haven. Free. Registration. 203-468-3890, hagamanlibrary.info.

COMEDY

Release your inner poet. Time Out for Poetry meets third Thursdays and welcomes those who wish to share an original short poem, recite a stanza or simply to listen. Ogden Nash, Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, Dr. Seuss and even the Burma Shave signs live again. 12:30-2 p.m. May 16 at Scranton Library, 801 Boston Post Rd., Madison. Free. 203-245-7365.

Every Wednesday evening Joker’s Wild opens its stage to anyone who wants to try standup comedy — from brand-new comics to amateurs to seasoned pros. As Forrest Gump might say, each Open-Mic Night is kind of like a box of chocolates. 9 p.m. Wednesdays at Joker’s Wild, 232 Wooster St., New Haven. $5.

203-773-0733, jokerswildclub.com.

The Poetry Institute of New Haven hosts Poetry Open Mics each third Thursday Come hear an eclectic mix of poetic voices.

7 p.m. May 16 at Young Men’s Institute Library, 847 Chapel St., New Haven. Free. thepoetryinstitute.com.

Recently named one of Variety’s “Top 10 Comics to Watch,” Chris D’Elia currently stars in NBC’s Whitney opposite Whitney Cummings. He quickly became a regular at Hollywood comedy clubs where he performs multiple times a week. Best known for his physical humor, he is now crisscrossing the country performing his stand-up act. 8 p.m. April 25 at Lyman Center for the Performing Arts, Southern Connecticut State University, 501 Crescent St., New Haven. $18 ($5 SCSU staff, students). 203-3926154, tickets.southernct.edu.

BENEFITS The University of New Haven stages its 30th annual Scholarship Ball. Event includes Distinguished Alumni Awards, dinner, dancing, silent and live auctions. Sponsored

by UNH Alumni Association. Black tie optional. 6 p.m. April 20 at Beckerman Recreation center, University of New Haven, 300 Boston Post Rd., West Haven. $175. 203-932-7270, newhaven.edu/ scholarshipball.

Amplify, Artspace’s annual art auction gala, begins at Artspace and moves to 45 Church Street for an entertaining live auction, with George McNeeley, senior vice president of Christie’s, at the gavel. Shake, rattle and roll as you bid on amazing art and art experiences to benefit Artspace’s free exhibitions and programs. Auction items include contributions from Vito Acconci, Polly Apfelbaum, Chip Benson, Sol LeWitt, Elizabeth Peyton, James Welling and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Also, silent auction featuring prints, drawings and photographs from the Artspace Flatfile. All accompanied by bespoke delicacies from the Shake Shack. 5-8 p.m. April 27 at Artspace, 50 Orange St., New Haven. $100 ($85 advance). 203-772-2709, artspacenh. org.

Celebrate 98 at the Shubert Gala Benefit, commemorating the 98th birthday of the Birthplace of the Nation’s Greatest Hits. Evening includes cocktails, dinner, silent auction, entertainment and more! This annual event raises critical funds enabling the theater to provide world-class programming, exceptional arts & educational programs and serve as a vital resource for local non-profits and community organizations. 5:30 p.m. May 23 at Shubert Theater, 247 College St., New Haven. 203-624-1825, shubert.com.

CINEMA Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey play the star-crossed lovers in Franco Zeffirelli’s classic take on Romeo and Juliet (1968, 138 min., USA). Free pizza for both Montagues and Capulets!

5 p.m. April 25 at Hagaman Memorial Library, 227 Main St., East Haven. Free. Registration. 203-468-3890, hagamanlibrary.info.

The Connecticut Student Film Festival is an Oscars-like event that celebrates the work of middle- and high-school students from more than 30 schools statewide that offer cutting-edge film programs. 4-8 p.m. April 26 at Palace Theatre, 100 E. Main St., Waterbury. Free. 203-346-2000, palacetheatrect.com.

The Yale Film Cultures Colloquium & Screening Series present François Truffaut’s seminal Les Miston (1957, 26 min., France), followed by Director Edward Yang’s Yi Yi (2000, 173 min., Taiwan). 6:30 p.m. April 27 at Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., New Haven. Free. 203-432-0670, yale.edu/whc.

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Comedian John Romanoff took top honors in the “Funniest Comic in New England” contest at Mohegan Sun. The win opened the door to a string of gigs. Romanoff quit his sales job a few months ago in hopes of pursuing comedy full time.

In addition to his own (plus) size, he’ll lambaste the outside world, lambasting everything from the news to pop culture to reality TV. Howie Mason opens. 8 p.m. May 3, 8 & 10:30 p.m.

May 4 at Joker’s Wild, 232 Wooster St., New Haven. $18. 203-7730733, jokerswildclub.com.

In My Son the Waiter: A Jewish Tragedy, Brad Zimmerman combines years of training as an actor with years on the standup comedy circuit, to create this hybrid performance that weaves a tale of one man’s lengthy struggle in New York.

His send-ups on his family, his career, his childhood and his misbegotten love life are as warm and poignant as they are hysterical. An atypical one man show, in that it is told through many vignettes, but it works. 8 p.m. June 7 at Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook. $25.

877-503-1286, katharinehepburntheater.org.

CRAFTS Ms. Judy’s Emporium hosts a Pottery Party for Kids.

Participants will enjoy pizza, drinks and snacks while they create a masterpiece from Branford pottery studio Fired-up.

6:30-8:30 p.m. April 27 at Ms. Judy’s Emporium, 28 School St., Branford. $25. 203-710-1313, msjudysemporium.com.

Calling all knitters and crocheters! Meeting last Tuesdays, the Hagaman Library’s casual Knitting Circle is open to all who want to share tips and show off new projects. 6-8 p.m. April 30, May 28 at Hagaman Memorial Library, 227 Main St., East Haven.

Free. 203-468-3890, hagamanlibrary.info.

CULINARY Consiglio’s Cooking Class Club. Chef Maureen Nuzzo explains and demonstrates how to prepare mouth-watering southern Italian dishes that have been passed down from generation to generation. May’s menu includes fettucine tossed with a roasted garlic sauce, Caprese salad drizzled with balsamic vinaigrette, filet of sole and shrimp Florentine, and poached pears in puff pastry with port wine. 6:30 p.m. May 9, 16, 23 at Consiglio’s Restaurant, 165 Wooster St., New Haven. $65.

Reservations. 203-865-4489, consiglios.com.

City Farmers Markets New Haven. Eat local! Enjoy seasonal fruits, vegetables, and herbs from local farms including

seafood, meat, milk, cheese, handcrafted bread and baked goods, honey, more. WOOSTER SQUARE: 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Saturdays at Russo Park, corner Chapel St. and DePalma Ct. EDGEWOOD PARK: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sundays at Whalley and West Rock Aves. 203-773-3736, cityseed.org.

DANCE The Mystic Ballet performs Swan Lake. This contemporary version of the classic ballet’s Act II is choreographed by Bolshoi-trained Sergei Vanaev, to the dramatic score of Tchaikovsky. After an acclaimed debut in Europe, this powerful avant-garde retelling premieres in the U.S. 7 p.m. April 20 at Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook. $40-$35. 877-503-1286, katharinehepburntheater.org.

Quinnipiac University’s Dance Company will present its spring performance, Dancing for a Cure On Broadway. Performance will feature a variety of dance styles, including jazz, hip hop, contemporary and tap. Music from different decades will be featured in 23 dance sets. The Twilight Tappers, a senior tap dancing group, will perform at Friday and Saturday’s shows. 7 p.m. May 2-4 in Clarice L. Buckman Theater, 275 Mt. Carmel Ave., Hamden. Free. danielle.glenn@quinnipiac.edu.

The Wesleyan Department of Dance’s Spring Dance Concert presents works by student choreographers following a full year of dance composition studies. 8 p.m. May 3-4 at Center for the Arts Theater, 283 Washington Terr., Middletown. $5-$4. 860-6853355, wesleyan.edu/cfa.

FAMILY EVENTS The city of New Haven Department of Arts, Culture & Tourism will stage the city’s 375th Anniversary Celebration. At press time the city was still in the planning stages, but expect an afternoon of music, dance and performances of every type to represent the various cultures, ethnicities and neighborhoods that comprise the City of Elms. 1-4 p.m. April 27 on New Haven Green. Free. 203-946-7172, kfutrell@newhavenct.net.

Each Tuesday the Yale Astronomy Department hosts a Planetarium Show. Weather permitting there is also public viewing of planets, nebulae, star clusters and whatever happens to be interesting in the sky. Viewable celestial objects change seasonally. 7 & 8 p.m. Tuesdays at Leitner Family Observatory, 355 Prospect St., New Haven. Free. cobb@astro.yale. edu, astro.yale.edu.

Philatelists unite! Young people ages eight to 15 are invited to join the Hagaman Library’s monthly (first Saturdays) Stamp Club. In addition to learning about stamps, attendees learn a lot of history and many other fascinating things from club leader and World War II veteran Judge Anthony DeMayo. 10 a.m. May 4 at Hagaman Memorial Library, 227 Main St., East Haven. Free. Registration. 203-468-3890, hagamanlibrary.info.

The ArtsPower National Touring Theatre’s new musical version of the beloved children’s classic The Little Engine That Could Earns Her Whistle. The Little Blue Engine, against all odds, finds a way to conquer her fears and demonstrate the extraordinary strength of “I think I can!” 3 p.m. May 5 at Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook. $16 ($10 children). 877-503-1286, katharinehepburntheater.org.

Creating Readers Saturdays at 2 Program. A fun, interactive program that engages young readers by bringing books to life using theater, dance and music. Each family that attends receives a copy of that week’s book to take home. 2 p.m.

Saturdays at Connecticut Children’s Museum, 22 Wall St., New Haven. $5. 203-562-5437, childrensbuilding.org.

LECTURES A Labor of Love: Private Charity during the Great Hunger, lecture by historian Christine Kinealy , a world-renowned authority on the Irish Famine. A visiting scholar in residence at Quinnipiac, Kinealy will frame her discussion around her forthcoming book, The Kindness of Strangers, which explores the role private charity played in saving lives during the Famine.5:30 p.m. May 2, June 6 at Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, 3011 Whitney Ave., Hamden. Free. 203-582-6500, ighm. org.

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alone. Lights are essential. 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays at Café Romeo, 534 Orange St., New Haven. Free. william.v.kurtz@gmail.com.

Alan Bitker leads weekly Library Yoga classes suitable for all levels. Walk-ins welcome. Bring a yoga mat. 1-2 p.m.

Wednesdays at New Haven Free Public Library, 133 Elm St., New Haven. $5. 203-946-8835.

Take part in New Haven’s largest (and most energetic) Earth Day celebration — the fifth annual Rock to Rock Earth Day Ride. One thousand-plus riders are expected to take one of three routes (eight miles, 20 miles or 100 kilometers, the latter route encompassing Sleeping Giant and the shoreline) between East Rock and West Rock. Last year’s event raised more than $100,000 to support the work of two dozen local environmental groups. 8:30 a.m. registration (staggered start times depending on ride distance) April 20 at Common Ground High School, 358 Springside Ave., New Haven. $30 ($20 over 59; $15 under 18). 203-389-4333, ext. 1214, rocktorock.org.

Led by Nelie Doak, Yoga promotes a deep sense of physical, mental and emotional well-being. Classes are designed to help cultivate breath and body awareness, improve flexibility, strengthen and tone muscles, detoxify the body and soothe the spirit. All levels welcome. Bring a yoga mat. 5-6:30 p.m. Fridays at Blackstone Library, 758 Main St., Branford. $10. 203-488-1441, ext. 313, yogidoakie@earthlink.net or events@blackstone. lioninc.org, blackstone.lioninc.org.

Elm City Cycling monthly meeting occurs on the second Monday. ECC is a non-profit organization of cycling advocates who meet to discuss biking issues in New Haven. Dedicated to making New Haven friendlier and more accessible to cyclists and pedestrians. 7 p.m. May 13 at City Hall Meeting Rm. 2, 165 Church St., New Haven. Free. elmcitycycling.org.

NATURAL HISTORY Echoes of Egypt: Conjuring the Land of the Pharaohs will take visitors on a journey through 2,000 years of fascination with ancient Egypt, the land of the pharaohs. Highlights include an examination of the meaning and changing uses of hieroglyphs, together with an exploration of Egyptosophy, the use of the magic and religious symbolism of ancient Egypt in later cultures. And of course no display on Egypt would be complete without mummies, here treated not as oddities but explained as examples of the Egyptian fascination with regeneration through decay. A centerpiece will be a diorama showing a scene from a 19th-century “mummy unwrapping” event in Philadelphia, complete with a mummy from the Barnum Museum and an invitation from the American Antiquarian Society. Through January 4, 2014 at Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, 170 Whitney Ave., New Haven. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily, noon-5 p.m. Sun. $9 ($8 seniors, $5 children). 203-4325050, peabody.yale.edu.

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The Bridgeport Bluefish of the independent Atlantic League open their 2013 season with a three-game series against the York (Pa.) Revolution. 7:05 p.m. April 26, 6:05 p.m. April 27, 2:05 p.m. April 28 at Ballpark at Harbor Yard, 500 Main St., Bridgeport. $20-$8. 203-345-4800, bridgeportbluefish.com

Boating The popular SailQuest Boat Show returns to Milford. unique and family-oriented show will feature new sailboats, trawlers, Downeast-style powerboats and select brokerage yachts for sale, from 20 to over 50 feet long. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. May 17-19 at Lisman Landing, 37 Helwig St., Milford. Free. 203-435-3212, windcheckmagazine.com.

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Elm City Cycling organizes Lulu’s Ride, weekly two- to four-hour rides for all levels (17-19 mph average). Cyclists leave at 10 a.m. from Lulu’s European Café as a single group; no one is dropped. 10 a.m. Sundays at Lulu’s European Café, 49 Cottage St., New Haven. Free. 203-773-9288, elmcitycycling.org.

The Little Lulu (LL) is an alternative to the long-standing Sunday morning training ride. The route is usually 20-30 miles in length and the ride is no-drop, meaning that the group waits at hilltops and turns so that no rider is left behind. The LL is an opportunity for cyclists to get accustomed to riding in groups.

Riders should come prepared with materials (tubes, tools, pumps and/or CO2 inflators) to repair flats. 10 a.m. Sundays at Lulu’s European Café, 49 Cottage St., New Haven. Free. 203-7739288, paulproulx@sbcglobal.net, elmcitycycling.org.

Tuesday Night Canal Rides. Medium-paced rides up the Farmington Canal into New Haven. May split into two groups based on riders’ speed but no one will be left behind to ride

Last year’s inaugural Cheshire Half-Marathon & 5K drew record numbers for Connecticut, and organizers are expecting even more runners this year. The 13.1-mile event is a scenic flat course through Cheshire and parts of Hamden, with significant stretches along the Farmington Canal Trail. 9:30 a.m. April 28 at Cheshire High School, 525 S. Main St., Cheshire. $55 ($28 5K, $9 kids fun run). cheshirehalfmarathon.org.

Proceeds from the ‘Cinco de Miles’ Road Race, a five-miler, will benefit Autism Services and Resources CT and the Orange Chamber of Commerce. 8:30 a.m. May 5 at High Plains Community Center, 525 Orange Center Rd., Orange. $25 advance, $30 race day. 203-795-3328, carol@orangectchamber.com.

Celebrate Mothers Day by running the Milford Hospital Live Well 5K. 9 a.m. May 12 at Milford Hospital, 300 Seaside Ave., Milford. $30 ($20 17 and other). 203-876-4004, hitekracing.com/ livewell.

Are you ready to take on the Hamden Hills Half-Marathon?

If not, there’s also a concomitant 5K for the slightly fainter of heart. Challenging but picturesque course; chip timing for 13.1-miler. 8 a.m. (5K 8:15) May 25 at 171 Sherman Ave., Hamden. $60 advance, $65 race day (5K $30/$35). 203- shorelinesharks. com.

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By Liese Klein ith its bounty of culinary institutions and trendy dining spots, New Haven has relatively few restaurants that take you away to another time and place. Add the new Roia to that short list. This new eatery in the Taft building downtown is transporting both in its carefully cultivated ambiance and ambitious menu. After a few meals here, you’ll want to move into the apartments upstairs and become a live-in regular.

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and original wood paneling.

Of-the-moment lighting and trendy touches like the open hand-washing station keep the space from seeming fusty — though it can be hard to read the menu in the atmospheric dimness. Not to worry: Wait staff and a fleet of bread-servers and others are there to attend to every need. Indeed, so attentive and helpful is the staff that you might think you got off at the wrong stop on Metro-North.

To start, a silky and subtle chickenliver mousse appetizer ($8) highlighted the chef’s continental flair, with pickled onions and crisp slices of baguette adding flavor and textural contrast. Lemony leeks set off sautéed enoki mushrooms and a rich custard in a second starter ($11).

Those eager servers delivered some rye bread to our table that was rich in tangy flavor but might have been more appetizing if warm.

Wines by the glass ranging from $8 to $12 and quality craft beers and liquor concoctions beckon from the

extensive cocktail menu. We settled for a rich and warming Founder’s porter ($6) and a glass of quality pinot noir ($11).

Urged to try the pasta, we were a bit underwhelmed by the size of a half-portion ($9.50) — half a child’s portion, perhaps. But one bite of this tagliatini was worth a pound of most pastas in town: It was eggy and buttery in a light coating of cheese and pepper, almost assertively al dente and full of flavor. The mini-serving turned out to be memorable and in just the right amount to complement the rest of the meal.

An entrée of whole branzino (European seabass) ($27) bucked the small-plate trend with a sizable portion of whole fish and sides.

Some time spent sorting out bones was rewarded with tender nuggets of meat coated in a sweet herbal sauce, set off by delectable whole root vegetables. Leeks played a starring role in a vegetarian entrée ($18), braised to melting perfection and accompanied by savory lentils

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A scoop of fig and port gelato ($8) made for the perfect final course — tart, earthy and palate-cleansing.

Pavé chocolate cake ($7.50) sounded a luxurious note but an airy hazelnut mousse was too similar in flavor, piling on the richness instead of providing contrast.

Some of the portion sizes at Roia are pushing the envelope for New Haven; you’ll likely not be bringing home any leftovers. But with food this good in an atmosphere this alluring, you’ll definitely feel like you got your money’s worth.

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Though located on a traffic-choked corner, the new eatery’s owners have managed to create a tranquil and welcoming space accented by

You can sit at an open table, a central bar area or booths along the walls, great for nights when you want a little solitude. Noise levels are manageable and the wait staff seems to stay on top of everything.

Best of all, the kitchen is open but not hogging center-stage, so you can watch a bit of Food Network-style action during conversational lulls but you’re not splashed with sauce or in earshot of the chef’s every command.

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For entrées, bistro dishes as well as a wideranging pizza menu tempt: We chose from both and were rewarded. Caramelized peppers and onions adorned a roasted vegetable pizza ($10) that was the perfect size for a shared appetizer or light meal.

Expert hands in the kitchen kept the pan-seared trout entrée ($17) moist and flavorful and with a simple sauce of brown butter and herbs. Hangar steak ($21) was tender and rich in a beautiful bed of fennel marred only by a few wan and flavorless potatoes clearly cooked earlier in the day.

To wrap up our meal, a flourless chocolate torte ($7) exceeded expectations with intense cocoa flavor and an airy texture that had it nearly floating off the plate, accompanied by juicy strawberries.

It’s great to see the kind of stylish yet accessible cuisine offered at Stone Hearth make its way down Whalley Avenue to Westville, joining quality neighborhood favorites like Delaney’s, Bella’s Café and Manjares. Park in the neighborhood lot, see and shop the Westville sights, and enjoy.

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Giving Firearms Class a Shot

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utting aside all thoughts of tragedies, politics and debates, I decided to do what more and more women are doing — heading to the shooting range.

When I drove through quaint, historic Guilford, with its upscale shops and picture postcardperfect town green, it didn’t feel like a weapon-y kind of place. Even the entrance to Chris’ Indoor Shooting Range, found near a cutesy bakery, a dog-obedience school and a recording studio, differed from what I imagined. Come to think of it, the sound of gunfire near a recording studio?

Perhaps they specialize in rap.

experience but, as owner Chris Dogolo has observed in his 20 years in business, 99 percent of newbies find the experience rewarding.

do.) Although he’s an excellent, calm and extremely patient instructor, put it this way — I hit the wrong target.

The place features ten shooting lanes with an automated retrieval system. Chris’ offers firearm sales and pistol permit classes. Since I honestly didn’t have any intention of going through the process of applying for a pistol permit (which entails tons of paperwork), Chris gave me a mini version of his full-day pistol-permit class.

So, let’s talk about the actual five-hour, $150 class.

The first thing we talked about was gun safety.

Shooting, he says, “is a very safe sport but it’s our responsibility as shooters to keep it a safe sport so we learn how to handle the gun correctly.”

Wow, there was much more to it than I thought — precisely where each finger goes, stance, breathing, closing the left eye. Like that first golf lesson, it looks so much easier than it is!

Ready, fire, aim: The author gets an inaugural lesson in firearms from instructor Chris Dogolo.

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After learning the fundamentals — tips such as keeping your finger off the trigger, never pointing the weapon in anyone’s direction even if you’re 1,000-percent certain it’s not loaded, checking the gun to make sure it’s empty, and always treating the gun as though it’s loaded — we descended down a flight of stairs to the last of ten shooting lanes. (Chris must have known how “well” I’d

In the first part of the class, you learn how to fill out the paperwork from your local police department or resident state trooper. Next is the fundamentals of safety and target shooting: grip, trigger control, stance and sight picture (what it looks like when lining everything up), how to load and unload a weapon, how to check it for safety, and the differences among weapons. Last, you get hands-on experience at the indoor range.

Aside from the classes, the indoor shooting range is just kind of a cool place for a hobby. Couples were there on “dates,” and families can plan a unique field trip. Guns and rifles can be rented to use on the range. You can shoot by the hour or purchase a membership to shoot for one flat fee.

While I’m not quite ready to defend my digs or hunt for food, this was an enjoyable and eyeopening experience, and I can say I gave it my best shot.

To learn more phone 203-453-1570 or visit chrisindoorrange.net.

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