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NEW HAVEN — So, when do we get to volleyball?

Lately phys-ed class seems to have evolved into a more serene exercise, if you will, as evidenced by State Street high school New Haven Academy, where yoga has become a required course. All 75 of the school’s freshmen are now partaking three times a week.

Construction crews working on the corner of Orange and George streets in late October unearthed a footstone from the grave of an old New Havener who died more than 240 years ago.

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Several students in the past few months have reported picking up their laundry from the Saybrook College laundry room to find their clothes soiled with human feces and urine.

Students delivered the, um, evidence, to the Saybrook Master’s Office to shine to get the attention of the administration.

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FÊTES A new study out of Connecticut College found that high-fat/high-sugar foods have about the same addictive qualities as cocaine and morphine.

INSTYLE WATERBURY — An alleged burglar, trying to get away from police, did what most of us would do: He threw a bird at the officers and ran.

The experiments were carried out on lab rats by neuroscience professor Joseph Schroeder and his students.

The animals were presented with the option of eating a rice cake or an Oreo cookie; they always chose the Oreos — and even ate the white filling first.

OU T D OOR S

Police were called to High Street to break up a fight, and when they tried to stop and talk to 32-year-old Luis Santana, he threw the cockatoo he was holding at them and fled into the woods.

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NEW HAVEN — Coming just about a year after Superstorm Sandy unearthed a tree on the New Haven Green, and with it a century-old skeleton, another deathly artifact comes to light.

NEW HAVEN — A new menace has been having Yale University students seeing skid marks that weren’t there before.

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The dig yielded no bones this time, but the footstone somehow got separated from the man’s headstone and gravesite in Grove Street Cemetery, possibly around the time graves were moved from burial sites on the Green to Grove Street.

The classes are run by local non-profit 108 Monkeys, which advocates for proliferating the practice of yoga.

School administrators hope the practice will help students and teachers learn mindfulness and reflection, while reducing stress to help foster a better environment for learning.

Can’t Have Just One NEW LONDON — These Oreos are like crack. No, really.

Other rates were given injections of morphine or cocaine; the two test subjects were then placed in a maze, and the behaviors and results of the Oreo and drug rats were the same.

The scientists even found that the cookies activated more neurons in the brain’s pleasure center than the abusive drugs.

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He was later found in a nearby house after the homeowner reported someone ducking into his basement.

In addition to burglary, assaulting a police officer and disorderly conduct, Santana was also charged with animal cruelty.

The bandit has been dubbed the “poopetrator” or the “brown bandit,” and his ministrations have led to demands for 24/7 security in laundry rooms, which had to have its washing machines and dryers disinfected and sterilized.

A follow-up event saw clothes on a laundry line soiled with what appeared to be feces but was actually chocolate or Nutella spread, in an alleged prank carried out by the semi-secret group the Pundits, all supposed members of which have denied any involvement in the group or the prank.

The bandit remains at large, but pictures of the incidents were sent out through an e-mail list at everybody. poops@yale.panlist.edu, and the case is still under investigation by Yale police.

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Be prepared for the “Oreo Defense” to be used in a high-profile court case in the near future.

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Famous Foods

To state the obvious, the two foods New Haven is known for are pizza (or rather, apizza), and the (disputed) original hamburger. For most, those are our only claims to culinary fame. But there are a few other perhaps lesser-known culinary superlatives for which the Elm City can bask in some reflected glory.

Frozen bagels — To be fair, many in the region know of the baked goods empire that was Lender’s Bagels. While locals had the good fortune to able to buy direct from the bakery, most in the rest of the country bought the bagged frozen six packs from the supermarket. The company started freezing bagels ahead of time to keep up with heavy demand on weekends, but after an accidental delivery of the frozen bagels, customers were won over, the genesis of a budding empire for company founder Harry Lender (and later large-scale marketing campaigns by son Murray, who died in 2012). Murray and brother Marvin were active philanthropists, giving to various organizations and charities in the community. Marvin is vice chairman of the Yale-New Haven Health System. At one time the company was the world’s largest bagel producer.

Lollipops — It seems likely that the concept of candy on a stick dates back longer than we can remember.

But it was New Haven confectioner George Smith of the former Bradley Smith Co. on Grand Avenue who produced the modern version of the candies in 1908, selling them for a penny each. The name, originally “Lolly Pop” after a well-known racehorse, was trademarked in 1931, but the variant “lollipop” has become generic. The company eventually invented and patented a machine to insert the candy sticks.

Smith’s death wasn’t as sweet as his life’s work, though: He was reportedly poisoned by his wife, Sharon. National Lollipop Day is now celebrated on July 20 each year.

Soda water — The invention of carbonated water and an early version of the soda fountain date back to the mid-1770s in Europe. But it was Yale chemistry professor Benjamin Silliman who popularized the fizzy water in the U.S. by producing and selling it in New Haven. The drink was so successful he ended up building a bigger fountain and pump room, and took on additional partners, then opening fountains in New York City and Baltimore.

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The Peter Paul Manufacturing Co. of Connecticut was founded in New Haven in 1919, and its first product – the chocolate-dipped coconut Mounds bar – debuted the following year. Mounds was sold as a single bar per package until 1929 when it started being sold as two bars per pack. Two years later, the company

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INT E L Where did your desire to be an entrepreneur first come from?

At age 34, Ben Berkowitz is perhaps New Haven’s leading software tech player. A graduate of the Hopkins School and George Washington University, he returned to New Haven following graduation and six years ago founded SeeClickFix, a company and website that is changing the way citizens communicate with local government entities. Berkowitz has been lionized in the media, lavished with offers for speaking engagements and SeeClickFix has thousands of users across the globe including quite a few in greater New Haven. NHM Publisher Mitchell Young interviewed Berkowitz for ONE2ONE.

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The first thing readers are going to notice when they open to this page is that you’re probably the youngest person we’ve interviewed for this feature.

Both myself and my brother are entrepreneurs. My sister is a teacher but she has some [entrepreneurial] aspirations as well. My dad worked for himself as a general contractor. We saw things being made and built and a business being operated. We picked up on it. Mom was very creative; everything was hands-on and craftsy when we were kids. She runs the day care at Yale-New Haven Hospital. We grew up in an environment of creativity and entrepreneurship.

W OR D S o f MO U TH How old is your brother?

He’s four years younger [than I]. He founded Yodel (a media marketing company for small businesses, with thousands of clients across the country). He works in Austin [Tex.] now. I worked for myself and my dad’s company simultaneously. I was doing Web design for other people, then I went to full-time with that. I was doing it for 18 months to two years before SeeClickFix was started.

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I started to see a young post-grad community. My friend Miles [Lasater] had formed Higher One [a now-public financial services company headquartered in Science Park]. My friend Janna [Wagner] had formed All Our Kin [a nonprofit that trains people to run daycare centers].

Did she get any tips from your mom?

My mom’s not involved, but my mom and she are good friends.

There were enough interesting people, enough good restaurants [in New Haven]. I thought I could make a go of it here.

For the uninitiated, describe SeeClickFix.

A big issue in Connecticut is that people who go to college here leave after they graduate.

What made you come back to New Haven?

I went to Los Angeles after college.

I thought I wanted to work for the music industry. I decided I didn’t want to work in a corporate environment and [the music] industry [was] about to be disrupted [by digital media]. I didn’t want to be on the wrong side of it. I really like it here. I had friends who were still here; it was home and I like home. When I got here I saw a few things that seemed promising about New Haven.

It is a Web application you use from your desktop or your smartphone.

It allows citizens to report things that are broken [or] that need to be improved in their neighborhood and allows governments to respond.

Someone can take their smartphone and take a photo of a pothole, or a streetlight that’s out, or a place where they want a bike lane. We ‘geo-tag’ the location. You describe the issue, hit ‘Submit’ — it’s now documented. Other neighbors [users] are alerted [to the issue].

We urge people to sign up even if they’re not reporting, so they can know [what is reported] and support what’s going on. Then we send an alert off to government. In a case like New Haven, it actually creates a work order. On many of these service requests a crew will be dispatched, and when it is resolved the city will mark it.

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In that case the city is working with the system. What happens when other municipalities aren’t so involved?

A lot of Connecticut towns are a little behind on this. In those towns we just send an e-mail alert [to town government]; that’s a free service we provide. We have a host of other tools, but in Connecticut it’s only Hartford and New Haven and a few smaller towns that [directly] participate.

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What are some cities outside of Connecticut that use it?

We have free users of the software all over the world. We have 160 partner/clients that are cities.

A few of them are in Australia, a few more in Canada. We just signed one in the Middle East, and we’re launching one in Brazil this week. [The software has] been translated into 12 different languages by volunteers and paid translation services for the back office for the governments.

Do a lot of municipal officials see this input as high-tech complaining?

Our client in Boston City Hall said this really well: He said citizens that call in to the old black-box voicemail system feel like they are complaining. Citizens [who] are using their smartphones and submitting a photo feel like they’re helping. That is a real distinction. Cities like Washington, D.C., Houston, Minneapolis, some cities in British Columbia are paying real money to advertise the application to ask citizens to talk to them. This is ‘crowd sourcing.’

[Municipalities] don’t have to pay for inspectors and so they can get a more informed position about the public space.

What are the most common things SeeClickFix users want fixed?

I usually say potholes to explain to people what we do. But if you’re in Oakland and you want to reach the most people, what you should be saying is, ‘This is a tool that allows you to report illegal dumping,’ because that’s the biggest issue there.

If you’re in Richmond [Va.] it’s trash complaints.

In New Haven it’s tree-trimming requests. New Haven has one of the densest urban canopies in the United States, and there are a lot of people requesting trees as well.

Where did the idea for SeeClickFix come from?

There was graffiti on my neighbor’s building, and I started calling City Hall going through the cycles of the black-box process, [but] there was no way it was getting resolved. I had left three voicemails and at some point I’m sitting on hold and I was thinking, ‘Oh man — this should be publicly documented. I bet my neighbors had reported the exact same thing.’ I sat down on the weekend with Miles and [SeeClickFix cofounder] Kam Lasater and we sat and worked for four hours building this application to see if we could come up with something. At the end of four hours we had a Google map where you could click on the map and publicly document an issue.

It took us another three months to figure out how to filter those issues and then send them off by

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e-mail to the people who were accountable.

I would imagine that some people in government would like to know what’s wrong, but maybe not have it in their face and public. What was the initial reaction for a city government that now has this community-watchdog system?

In New Haven I reported 17 pieces of graffiti — and in four hours three or four of them were already gone. As more people started using it, there was more response. The city started looking at us. Rob Smuts, New Haven’s chief administrative officer, said, ‘These guys are getting way more content into our system than the [pre-existing] system we paid for. And then we started working with them to build the system on the back end [city side].

Are cities and city employees nervous about the idea of all these eyes — or should I say iPhones — watching them to see if they do their jobs?

Six years ago, I think they were nervous. The Web was just evolving with this new kind of passion where people were creating content as much as they were consuming it. Suddenly transparency had a whole new meaning: It wasn’t just about publishing your data online; it was

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about listening to data that was published online about you. Back then I think that was pretty scary. There were a number of progressive people [in city government] who were excited about it and wanted to make use of it, and they helped us build our back office. Now you’ll find 2,000 government officials on SeeClickFix on the back end, responding to the individual transactions that citizens create, but also creating transactions themselves. In Darwin, Australia almost all the graffiti reports come from the graffiti-removal group. Because they are documenting all their work, for them it’s a work tracking system — except that it is all public.

If everyone gets to see all the information, what type of feedback do you get from Joe next door?

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say, ‘Stop complaining.’ But others will say, ‘Here’s a solution.’ An example recently came up in East Rock and Wooster Square where [a number of] Honda Fits [automobiles] that have had their wheels stolen. And people have gone on [the site] and said, ‘You can get this kind of lug nuts [to thwart theft] and these other people have come on and said, ‘I can I help you out — I’ll lend you tires.’ There are 160 clients but there are thousands of cities where there are issues reported.

You’ve been called a ‘social entrepreneur.’

What does that mean?

Social entrepreneurs are people who take an entrepreneurial approach to doing something to better society. Your tax status doesn’t matter; you can be a 501(c)3 or a business. What really matters is that entrepreneurial approach to solving a societal issue — in our case, solving communication between citizen and government.

What is a metric we can use to demonstrate the scale of issues filed?

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How has the company’s growth changed you?

Life is much more complicated. I’m responsible for 18 other people’s jobs, and I can’t work from a coffee shop all the time any more. In the beginning I could work when I wanted to work remotely. When we were half this size I would work from Vancouver half a year with Katie [now his wife]. But at the same time it has been unbelievable to be recognized around the world for changing how citizens and governments communicate.

You mentioned before about ‘progressive’ people wanting to help. Does that imply that conservatives aren’t as interested in fixing things around their hometowns?

No. I meant ‘progressive’ in mindset — not necessarily in politics. We have a ton of folks [of all political persuasions]: Republicans, Democrats — it doesn’t matter. Actually, a lot of what we’re talking about is a [traditional] conservative approach and caters to conservative preferences as well, because we’re talking about using less government resources [more effectively], and getting citizens more involved.

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There are 775,000 issues that have been reported on the site. Over 70-something percent have been resolved. We sign on maybe four or five clients a month now, and we’re trying to grow the sales force. [The initial] deal size [for municipalities] is anywhere from $5,000 to $50,000 a year for the software. That has mostly to do with the size of the town and how much of the software and how many departments are using it. Locally there are places like Branford and West Haven where citizens have been clamoring for SeeClickFix [to be adopted by town or city government] for a really long time.

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New Haven and this administration has been very progressive, very forward-thinking and very supportive. We do have similar adoption, if not greater, in Oakland, Calif.

Let me ask another question about ‘social entrepreneurism’: Is this really a new movement or is it just a new name for something people have been doing for a long time?

I think there are a lot more organizations trying to create a business model behind the social good that they are producing as opposed to just asking for money. And that is the distinguishing factor, And having a sustainable revenue model is a differentiation.

To grow your company did you use venture capital investments? And if so what did they say brought them in?

Three years ago we got some from two West Coast ventures. They saw that we had figured out how to get money out of governments to solve a social problem. There is a little bit of consumer interest there, having access to a lot of users. They also saw that we could build a strong software service business with our current licenses. [SeeClickFix investor] the Omidyar network also happens to be a philanthropic investor. Omidyar is run by Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay; he’s given a billion dollars away.

[Another investor] Jeffrey Skoll was his first employee and has given as much or more away.

Berkowitz: “we’re actually creating a whole new class of citizens who are more engaged.”

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Was there something you got from your father, who we know was a New Haven guy through and through, that induced you to make that call?

Yes. If we were at a restaurant, my dad was always the person who would send back the food if he didn’t like it. And sometimes, if he really didn’t like it, he’d just ask for no more food. He also had the work ethic.

Does SeeClickFix mark a shift in the citizen government relationship because it is so easy to ‘make the call’ now?

Yes. The data shows that we are starting to replace some of the phone calls, but we’re actually

creating a whole new class of citizens who are more engaged. Our site skews [toward baby] boomer[s].

Here you have this very informal office space — a couple of hammocks, Ping Pong tables. Wouldn’t the boomers who use your site be making fun if they saw it?

It’s such a benefit to this office. We’re doing something that is really intense and growing really fast. It’s no small feat this company here in Connecticut is getting customers in Brazil and the Middle East. So playing Ping Pong at the end of the day is almost necessary. Actually I haven’t been playing as much [with a new son, Oliver] and I’m not winning as much [laughs].

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Is there a special ingredient that creates entrepreneurs, and is it something we can bottle?

I had a job that was somewhat lenient, working for myself, that allowed me to [spend] nights and weekends on SeeClickFix, I had a good idea and I had the advice and friendship of a person who had done this [founded a successful company] before [Higher One’s Miles Lasater]. The thing I’m interested in doing is having an entrepreneurin-residence here, who will be here 30 hours a week for six months. After six months they won’t be working here. Nights and weekends they’ll be required to be working on their own [separate] business. We will help keep them eating ramen noodles. They will have access to a company that has a wealth of knowledge about creating a startup. If that is successful that can scale [to more entrepreneurs at other companies].

Is there something New Haven can do to cultivate an entrepreneurial culture or brand?

What other tech entrepreneurs and companies do you look up to?

In the beginning I looked at Craigslist because of the scale of it. Now, for me Twitter is pretty high up there. Kickstarter [the crowd funding site where artists and others can raise money for projects] is another. I have a lot of respect for those guys — they fund more artistic projects in the U.S. than the National Endowment for the Arts.

Sometimes ‘crowd sourcing’ sites seem like just a new kind of software. Are they more than that?

I think these are software applications that harness social movements and drive them to cultural relevance. That’s what we’re doing: We’re helping a disenchanted global citizenry that has lost some love for government. At the same time a group of local government officials are really interested in getting that love back and doing the hard work to make that happen. v

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Austin [Tex.] tapped into the thing it had and just blew it up, and that was music. I think New Haven has food — that’s the thing we have going for us. If you ask Miles, that was one of the things that made him stay after college [at Yale].

Coincidentally, this interview with you will appear in an issue in which the cover story is about local food manufacturers.

I think the city has been focused on figuring that out, and I think they’re right. I don’t know if we need food incubators or more manufacturing.

I think the city could be purchasing more food locally, and that could help.

How does having a new son now change things for you in running this business?

I’m not staying for Ping Pong; cutting my travel time back. But he has been [traveling] with me. He would have silver status, — he’s been cross-country three times. It also given me new perspective, and that’s really important. Katie and Oliver — they are No. 1, and SeeClickFix is No. 2.

That said, I think I’m making smarter decisions because of that. For example, I’ve focused more on the acceleration of the company.

So you’re a kid from New Haven; your father was a local contractor. What is all this success doing to your hat size?

I’ve always had a big head; I’ve always been confident. There’s been a lot of national press.

I’ve been on the front page of the New York Times business section, speaking [at] events, been written up in books and have met a President [Bill Clinton].

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Enough already with the apizza: Cooks across the New Haven area are laboring in kitchens to produce a fresh crop of gourmet foods that you can savor at home, far from the lines and crowds.

From sauces to condiments to chocolates, New Haven-area entrepreneurs are filling shelves and stomachs everywhere from farmers markets to big-box grocery stores.

“There’s definitely a demand,” says Stephanie Berberich, event and demo coordinator at Elm City Market downtown. Local foods are a key element of Elm City Market’s philosophy and marketing strategy, she adds.

“That’s one of the reasons why we have as many members as we do: This is one of the places they can come and get local and regional products,” Berberich says. “We really listen to our customers in getting them what they want.” Elm City will celebrate its second anniversary

this month with 150 local products on the shelves and more than 2,000 member-owners, although anyone can shop there.

Local products also crowd the shelves at the jewel-boxlike Caseus cheese shop, located adjacent to the popular restaurant on Whitney Avenue.

Tiny bottles of Salemme Pepper sit on top of the cheese case — it’s a variety of capsicum only found in Connecticut and is grown by the Salemme family of Cheshire. Next to the register sits a row of exotically flavored Conillin Chocolate bars, made in Seymour. On a shelf to the left you’ll find squat jars of Wicked Mary Bloody Mary mix from Swamp Yankee Products of Naugatuck.

“People are educated and know what’s out there,” says Caseus cheesemonger Sylvia Sobocinski.

Customers want quality, local gourmet products to accompany their cheeses, impress foreign visitors and give as gifts, she explains. Although New Haven County itself has no artisan cheesemakers using local milk, products like New Haven’s Swords Into Plowshares honey and Savor roasted leek cookies from Watertown go great with cheddars and sheep cheese made elsewhere in the region.

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New Haven has also emerged as a center of artisanal breadmaking, with the revived Judie’s European baking baguettes that complement Chabasco ciabatta and Whole G German loaves on racks across the region.

Some locally made products have hit the big time: Palmieri on 45 Hamilton Street supplies all major supermarket chains and you can buy their pasta, pizza and wing sauces online. Fresh Italian sausages by Longhini, located off the Boulevard, can be found in the fresh meat case at Stop & Shop and are being hawked on TV in charmingly unpolished commercials. Even a small neighborhood market like Nica’s on Orange Street prominently displays jars of Pop`s Angry Pepper Jelly from North Branford on top of the meat case.

And it’s never been a better time to be a thirsty locavore in the New Haven area.

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Vineyards of Wallingford racks up awards for its Cabernet Franc and merlot vintages.

So fry up some sausages, spice them up with some red pepper jelly, throw them on some Whole G bread and then wash them down with some artisanal Bloody Marys. You’ll be eating New Haven, there’s no greasy box to contend with!

Some notable New Haven-area and regional gourmet products:

Sweet At first bite, a Conillin Chocolates Earl Grey Tea bar is smooth and rich. But as the chocolate melts in your mouth, notes of tannin and citrus-y bergamot rise, lingering on the palate like a fine cup of tea. An enticing blend like this is well worth the $5.35 price tag. Other flavors from this Seymour startup include chai tea, blueberry, raspberry and passion fruit.

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SELECTED GREATER NEW HAVEN and CONNECTICUT FOOD MANUFACTURERS SalemmePepper Co. 251 Crescent Cr., Cheshire salemmepepper.com The Salemme family grows and produces flakes of this unique and supremely hot red pepper in fine or coarsely crushed varieties.

Conillin Chocolate 10 Gary Park Dr., Seymour conillin.com Local chocolatier infuses fruits and spices in high quality chocolate bars, with future products to include caramels, truffles and drinking chocolate.

Swamp Yankee Products 43 General Patton Dr., Naugatuck swampyankeeproducts.com Hand-made hot sauces, marinades and Bloody Mary mixes produced by family-run company.

Swords Into Plowshares 178 Nicoll St., New Haven Produces Connecticut wildflower honey and beeswax candles sourced from 400 honeybee colonies.

Savor 30 Echo Lake Rd., Watertown savorfinefoods.com Bakes artisan, gourmet cookies with natural ingredients, using unique, aromatic and seasonal flavors.

Chabaso Bakery 360 James St., New Haven chabaso.com Family-owned bakery specializing in a wide range of artisan breads, available at Atticus books and supermarkets across the region.

Hummel Bros.

180 Sargent Dr., New Haven hummelbros.com Franks, corn beef, ham avaialbel online and at locations throughout Connecticut.

Longhini Sausage Company 41 Longhini La., New Haven longhinisausage.com Family-owned for 60 years, Longhini features a retail shop and deli where it sells its own products and Italian imports.

Pop’s Angry Pepper Jelly 13 Circle Dr., North Branford popsjelly.com Uses a family recipe to produce its own sweet, hot pepper jelly from natural ingredients.

New England Brewing 7 Selden St., Woodbridge newenglandbrewing.com Craft beer brewery with bottled and canned beers and a draught room on site.

Just Food 1 Main St., Chester gojustfood.com Makes fresh juices and smoothies, raw chocolates and other products from organic and raw ingredients.

Cocoashak 55 Elm St., Cheshire cocoashak.com Beautiful hand made candies, chocolates and truffles .

H. Mangels Confectioner 107 River St., Milford hmangels.com Crafts many flavors of handmade truffles, available in boxes of various sizes.

Judie’s Breads 63 Grove St., New Haven lacusine.net Bread and pastries made by hand, fresh every single day of the week with no added preservatives or fillers.

Thompson Candy Company 80 South Vine St., Meriden thompsonbrands.com This long-running candy company specializes in seasonal, holiday and special occasion chocolates.

Whole G – Whole German Breads 105 Hamilton St., New Haven (factory( 1008 Main St. Branford. wholeg.com Local bakery uses traditional German recipes and natural ingredients in its breads.

Gelato Giuliana 240 Sargent Dr., New Haven gelatogiuliana.com Produces Italian artisan gelato that ships out to gelaterias, supermarkets and restaurants.

Palmieri Foods 145 Hamilton St., New Haven palmierifoods.com In business since 1920, Palmieri whips up pasta, pizza and Buffalo wing sauces.

Foxon Park Beverages 103 Foxon Blvd., East Haven foxonpark.com Foxon Park is a long-loved soft drink maker, using the same recipes and ingredients since 1922.

Liuzzi Cheese 322 State St., North Haven liuzzicheese.com Liuzzi is well-known for its cheeses like fresh mozzarella and ricotta, and sells them along with other products in its deli and grocery shop.

Calabro Cheese 580 Coe Ave., East Haven calabrocheese.com Family-owned and operated Italian cheesemaker was first to introduce a fat-free ricotta.

Mama Del’s Pasta 420 Main St., East Haven facebook.com/ mamadelspasta Makes traditional and specialty pastas and raviolis all in-house.

Arethusa Farm & Dairy 552 South Plains Rd., Litchfield arethusafarm.com This dairy farm produces milk, cheese, yogurt and ice cream from Holstein, Brown Swiss and Jersey cows.

Butterfield Farm Company 472 Hill St., Suffield promotethegoat.com Butterfield makes a variety of cheeses, yogurts and milk all sourced from goat milk.

Two Roads Brewery 1700 Stratford Ave., Stratford tworoadsbrewing.com The area’s newest brewery, Two Roads makes five beers year round (another six seasonal), and hosts events and tastings.

Gouveia Vineyards 1339 Whirlwind Hill Rd., Wallingford gouveiavineyards.com This winery sits on 140 acres and makes 11 wines, and is open for tastings and picnics.

Chamard Vineyards 115 Cow Hill Rd., Clinton chamard.com Complete selection of wines, a farm kitchen bistro, and host of meetings and numerous musical events.

Connecticut Wine Trail 195 Farmington Ave., Farmington ctwine.com The Connecticut Wine Trail guides wine aficionados to 25 wineries all across the state to get a taste of what local grapes can offer.

Connecticut Chocolate Trail ct.visit.com/dontmiss/ details/206 The state’s tourism department has tallied up a comprehensive list of local chocolatiers to satisfy your sweet tooth, including Cocoashak in Cheshire (cocoashak.com) and Fascia’s in Waterbury (fasciaschocolates. com).

Farmers’ Market Trail farmersmarkettrail.com This Web site provides a path to connect local food lovers to fresh, local food in locations that include farms and specialty markets that include live music, read-to-eat foods, workshops and activities.

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Cavalry Brewing 115 Hurley Rd., Oxford cavalrybrewing.com A craft beer brewery using traditional English methods with American equipment to brew its ales and stouts.

Stony Creek Beer Company 130 Montowese St., Branford stonycreekbeer.com Branford brewery has three craft beers to its name – two IPAs and one lager – named after Connecticut area codes.

Thimble Islands Brewing Company 53 East Industrial Dr., Branford thimbleislandbrewery.com Thimble Islands offers tastings and tours of its brewery where it makes three craft beers – an American ale, an IPA, and a coffee stout.

Bru Room at BAR 254 Crown St., New Haven barnightclub.com BAR has become as known for its pizza as it has for its four craft beers, which are brewed and poured on site.

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These vegan, raw and stabilizer-free confections come insystem varieties like maple An electronic alert also may be a lavender vanilla and black cherry and offer good idea, especially for the older person awho jolt lives of pure fl avor and silky texture even as alone. they melt aggressively in your hands. Find “I think people really don’t understand them at Caseus. how much help exists, and you just don’t Cocoashak is the sweetest in Cheshire, have to tough it out to helpthing people who there hand made candies, chocolates you love as they become debilitated,”and says Truffl ( featured on the care cover) will soon Lauraes Kaplan, a geriatric manager forbe showing up in other retail location as well.

Connecticut Eldercare Solutions, LLC in Other local chocolatiers include H. Mangels Woodbridge.

Confectioner of Milford, known for truffles Along with ferreting out resources to by the box and sugar-free versions, and assist their parents, adult children are Thompson Candy Co. of Meriden, a local grappling with “all the psychological favorite for decades. Those seeking a cool issues around watching a parent become treat in cool weather should try New Havenmore Gelato disabledGiuliana and seeing their mortality made in Italian-accented become apparent,” adds Kaplan. flavors like chocolate hazelnut, fig“Losing and a parent is probably one of the most cappuccino. challenging tasks of adulthood. It’s For a turbocharged both level. real cane exquisitely painful dose on a of primal It’s sugar and flavor, try the sodas of Foxon Park in East Haven. If you must have that apizza,

Moreover, Kaplan says, “There’s a “Things sort of divide out between crisis tremendous amount of stress, and and non-crisis,” says elder law attorney the kids’ problems will become more Whitney Lewendon of Coan, Lewendon, magnified at times like this.”

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If there’s a grey area, when Old Hickory, spiced with smoked peppers Cheese’s vibrant North Haven deli and store “There’s just so much you can do. Dignity the parents feel they’re still in charge but and bourbon.

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A more adult-oriented outing is a trip to New England Brewing’s location off Amity Road in Woodbridge: Tours are offered along with the occasional kickoff and tasting event. In stores, look for New England’s 668 The Neighbor of the Beast, a Belgian-style ale, along with Gandhi-Bot, a potent IPA. Yes, the names are getting arcane, but these new canned craft beers rank with standbys Sea Hag IPA and Elm City Lager as regional treasures.

include Cavalry Brewing of Oxford, Stony Creek and Thimble Islands of Branford and the Brü Rm at Bar. But just over the county line in Stratford lies Two Roads, the hottest new microbrewery in the region with a stylish bar/tasting room to boot. Watch for Two Roads’ complex Hizzoner Maibock come springtime and enjoy the crisp and refreshing Ol’ Factory Pils all year round. 

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Venture a bit farther afield around the state and you’ll find some excellent small-scale cheeses from Arethusa Farm in Litchfield and Butterfield Farm Co. of East Granby.

Sylvia Sobocinski of Caseus recommends Butterfield’s Meadow Zew, a goat’s milk cheese in the Basque style, and Arethusa’s Europa, a sweet and salty cow’s milk cheese.

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There’s ample indoor and outdoor space and the wines are appealing and affordable — a tasting of four wines costs $8 and you can bring all the food you want. Great for family groups.

Chamard Vineyards (featured on the cover) in Clinton, has a tasting room and farm kitchen for a delicious meal in a beautirful setting. Chamard host’s meetings and numerous musical events and has a great selection of French “inspired wines”. Its Stone Cold White can be found in selected wine shops across the region.

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G ‘ I HEALS Making a year-round commitment of helping others in need

By KAREN SINGER Nice work if you can get it: In four-plus years Beth Lyons figures she’s spent some 500 hours cuddling babies at YNHH.

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he season of Thanksgiving marks the time when we give thanks for our multiple and manifold blessings. It reminds us of those less fortunate, and for many kindles a desire to help those in need.

“There were people who came in and rocked babies who needed it, and I thought from, then on, ‘When I retire, that’s what I want to do.’”

This November 28, most food pantries and soup kitchens in Connecticut cities will not lack for volunteers as they serve a Thanksgiving repast to those with nowhere else to go for the holiday.

Decades passed, and in 2009 Lyons, still working as production director at Cheney & Co., a New Haven marketing communications firm, decided to wait no longer.

But what about the other 364 days of the year?

“I had been finishing up other volunteer things — school fair kind of stuff — and I needed something new to do,” she says.

New Haven Magazine asked a host of New Haven-area who give of their time and treasure not just during the holiday season, but year-round, why they do what they do for others — and what, exactly, it does for them.

After passing an intensive background check, Lyons, now 63, began cuddling babies at YNNH on Sunday afternoons.

Beth Lyons delights in holding babies and singing to them. She’s had plenty of experience, both with her own family and at Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNNH), where she volunteers as a “baby-cuddler,” working with newborns to toddlers.

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Here are their stories.

Professional Cuddler: Beth Lyons

Thirty years ago, Lyons, had three newborns needing extensive special care at YNNH: a daughter who arrived a month sooner than scheduled and twin sons who were born nine weeks premature and spent more than two months at the hospital.

Over the past four and a half years Lyons has logged more than 500 volunteer hours, according to Sheryl Sobolewski, a volunteer program coordinator for the hospital. “We ask for a six-month commitment,” Sobolewski says. “The number of volunteers who give hundreds of hours are far fewer than those who complete six months.”

Over the years, Lyons says, “I have found that different babies react to different songs and when I find one that appeals, I will use it. (“Dona nobis pacem” is a favorite.) Singing often works better than softly speaking to the infant.

“If you have a baby who is hyper, perhaps getting over a drug reaction, you will often need a different kind of cuddling. If you pat them gently they get freaked out. If you pat them with quicker firmer tapping, that will often help.”

And if they stop breathing?

“I pat their feet and get them started,” Lyons says. “I have not ever had a baby do that more than just a little bit, and I have never had an emergency.

“You also learn how to handle them so you don’t get in the way of surgery sites, and ways of playing with them and encouraging them.”

Lyons has taken care of some babies for several years. “There was one who was in the hospital until she was three and a half years old,” she says, “but she went home knowing how to run and jump.”

Lyons says rocking babies makes her feel good.

“Once and a while I get to talk to the mothers — and that’s interesting, too. Sometimes I’ve sat with them for an hour rocking their babies. If your baby’s quiet and happy, then you’re happy.”

Word Smith: John Horkel

Tanya Smith, New Haven Reads’ education director and parent liaison, describes Horkel as “enthusiastic and dedicated.

John Horkel always knew he wanted to give back something of lasting value when he stopped working. But he wasn’t sure exactly what until last winter, when he retired after 27 years as executive director of Earthplace in Westport, and moved to New Haven.

“He sincerely cares about each child and how can he make his tutoring better,” Smith says. “When the call went out about summer clubs this year, he was one of the first to volunteer, and he ran a wildly successful nature club.”

While out walking one day, Horkel noticed the New Haven Reads office and called his daughter, a former language arts teacher in the Elm City, to learn more about the non-profit, which began as a book bank and now provides free literacy services to around 500 New Haven-area children each week. He soon signed up as a volunteer.

Horkel, 66, started with two students but now tutors 11 in grades two to eight. He’s there each weekday, spending one hour a week with each pupil in a one-to-one session.

“It’s a pretty structured session, with so much time working on the computer and with textbooks and reading to me,” Horkel explains.

“Toward the end of the hour, you have X amount of time to play a game. The more you get to see them, the more they open up to you.

“They’re such great kids,” Horkel adds. “I’m not sure who gets more out of this — them or me.

As executive director of Earthplace, Horkel typically worked with dozens of volunteers who participated in summer camps, special events, wildlife rehabilitation and water-quality research programs. “Some were long-term volunteers who were there long enough to see the impact of what they did,” he recounts. “Now that I’m becoming more aware of the impact of literacy and the many struggles these kids have if they don’t hit the ground running by kindergarten, I know it has to be a year-round proposition. I personally have committed myself to being there year-round for them.

“I know that something like New Haven Reads can make a profound difference,” Horkel adds.

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Some seven years ago Susan Clinard heard an NPR radio interview with Chris George, director of Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services (IRIS), a New Haven-based organization that resettles around 200 refugees a year.

“It was very brief but inspirational, about the importance of welcoming refugees in your community,” says Clinard, an artist whose work has highlighted the immigrant experience.

So moved was she that she phoned George, offering her help.

“She said, ‘I don’t have a ton of money, but I’ve got this gift of creating art and I’d like to use it somehow to benefit refugees,’” George recalls.

Clinard proposed sculpting several life-size portraits of IRIS clients.

“I had in mind donating the work, along with a personal little story of how they got here, as a way of

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“Our initial reaction was, ‘No way.’

But then we realized it would be a way of telling the community about the organization,” George acknowledges.

Working with clients at the IRIS office over the next several months, Clinard sculpted ten life-sized clay portraits. Some were sold. Others were given to favored donors. A few remain at IRIS. Since then, Clinard has helped organize IRIS’ annual World Refugee Day several times, exhibited some of her other sculptures at IRIS events and mentored several refugee artists.

“She’s been terrific,” George says.

“There’s really no one who ever has supported IRIS in this way.”

Before finding her calling as an artist Clinard studied cultural anthropology and was a social worker with Chicago foster kids.

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Currently an artist-in-residence at the Eli Whitney Museum, she volunteers her time and talent in other ways, too.

“You do what you love, but you’ve got to find a way to give back, all the time,” Clinard says. “It feeds me.”

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Young adults from the Connecticut Mental Health Center in New Haven come to Clinard’s studio, she says, to “physically make art [molding clay] and to see how an artist makes a living.

“Some of their work is awesome.”

For the last several years she has done four or five projects annually with the same 56 students (now fourth-graders) at Worthington Hooker School in New Haven.

“I try to supplement what they already have with clay and wood and other materials that might not be that accessible,” she says. “The kids’ artwork is some of the most inspiring ever.”

Last winter Clinard responded to the Sandy Hook shootings by creating an ethereal 50-inch sculpture of 20 tiny white figurines in a white translucent boat.

“I started with small ceramic boats — meditation boats that show people on their journey in life,” she

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says. “One day it just came out. I bent a wooden frame and started coating it with layers of paper. It was in my studio for a while, then people encouraged me to show it.

I exhibited it at a spiritual retreat gallery in Madison, where one of the counselors works with the Sandy Hook families.”

Clinard knows some of those families have seen the sculpture.

“I got a call from one father saying that it gave him a little healing,” she says. “That’s the greatest gift one could hope for.”

She also created a sculpture of six figurines, representing the adult Sandy Hook victims, connected in a circle and gazing heavenward.

Both sculptures will be exhibited soon at a New York gallery, and Clinard hopes their next stop will be a permanent place in the rebuilt Sandy Hook school.

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Most recently, Rianhard led the team that built the new walkway at Hammonasset, which officially opened on August 22 with a ribboncutting ceremony attended by state DEEP commissioner Dan Esty.

A retired sales representative for a paper company, the 72-year-old Rianhard joined Greenways about eight years ago, at the suggestion of his friend Ginny Raff, who chairs the Madison team of around 50 volunteers, and knows how much he enjoys outdoor work.

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“I thought, ‘Why not give back a little bit? It sounds interesting?’”

Rianhard recounts. “It went from there and it evolved. When I finally started attending meetings and finding out what the scope of the endeavor was, I realized it was going to take a lot more than what the volunteers anticipated to establish this trail. They had a general idea of where they wanted it to go, but not a strong idea of the finished product — how to get there. I got more and more involved as trail-development person in Madison.”

Though he’s handy with a chainsaw, Rianhard acknowledges, “I’d never done any of this work formally.

Building a trail and the engineering that goes into it involves the energy and experience of other people. I see it in the form of stairs. You plateau for a while, inch forward then go up another step.”

Rianhard’s tasks ranged from contacting the Canadian government for information about building trails to enlisting local experts, including an engineer, homebuilder and landscapers, and marshaling volunteer work teams.

“I organized it and they pulled it off,” he says. “Without these other people, I’d still be standing there with a hammer in my hand looking out at the marsh.”

Rianhard has been an invaluable asset, according to Raff. “Some volunteers give a few hours here and there,” she says. “Some like Perry give pretty much full-time.”

About 80 percent of the nearly onemile project has been completed over the last five years, mostly in cooler weather, when Hammonasset State Park is closed.

“It’s rewarding to finish a phase,” Rianhard says. “There still are a couple more to go.

“Certainly I’ve been able to give back to the community, which I’ve always thought was important,” he adds. “I’ve also learned an awful lot in doing something that I never thought I’d do.”

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Phillips has been doing her “thing” for nearly a decade.

“After my husband died, I just wanted to do something to fill the void,” she says. “What it was, I didn’t know. I was crocheting lap rugs for Yale-New Haven Hospital for years but couldn’t do it anymore because of arthritis. I read about soup kitchens in the local paper and thought I’d try something new. I started with one on lower Whalley Avenue, but it wasn’t busy enough.”

Phillips, a West Havener, found her niche at the Community Soup Kitchen, which serves as many as 350 people a day each weekday except Wednesday.

“There are more men than women on the days I’m here,” she says. “We seldom see children.

“It’s pretty sad to realize that in this county we have this many people who need help,” Phillips observes.

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Nearly one year after Sandy Hook, different school districts have rolled out different approaches to school security

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early a year after the tragic shooting in Newtown, are our schools any safer?

Everyone wants to keep our school children free from harm. But in terms of methodology — how best to accomplish that objective — opinions vary greatly. Most Connecticut public school systems have increased security measures in their schools and a few – Glastonbury, Enfield, Middlebury, Beacon Falls and soon, North Branford — have stationed armed guards in their school buildings.

Some say that measure is extreme. Others say it is absolutely necessary.

In North Branford, Schools Superintendent Scott Schoonmaker was enjoying a staff Christmas party at 11 a.m. last December 14 when the phones started ringing.

As word spread that Adam Lanza had shot his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School, killing 20 children and six adults, Schoonmaker contacted local police and asked them to dispatch officers to all of the town’s schools.

“We kept a police presence for two weeks,” recalls Schoonmaker. “It was very expensive. It was between $8,000 and $9,000 a week and it wasn’t in the budget.”

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looking at various ways to safeguard students’ safety. They decided on a multi-faceted plan that would place retired sworn police officers in the schools as security guards. The wrinkle? Those guards would be armed.

“This had been growing over the last ten years,” says Schoonmaker of school violence. “The number of incidents and the frequency and the level of harm and that tragic loss of life at Sandy Hook, it shifted from the high school, to middle school and down to the elementary school where the youngest are being educated.”

According to the state’s Department of Education, 169 schools in 36 districts statewide have received state grants to improve security since the Sandy Hook massacre.

“Many efforts have been undertaken since last December to make Connecticut schools safer, and this critically important work continues,” says Commissioner Stefan Pryor. “Just last month, the governor announced the first round of grants for school security upgrades. More schools are in the pipeline to receive such state grants in the near future.”

Also, earlier this year, the General Assembly passed Public Act 13-3, “An Act Concerning Gun Violence Prevention and Children’s Safety.”

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed the measure, which contained several other efforts aimed at

making school buildings more secure. As part of this legislation, the School Safety Infrastructure Council was created and tasked with developing a set of recommendations regarding safety standards for Connecticut’s schools, according to Pryor’s office.

“While our educational facilities are strengthened, schools must remain a welcoming learning environment for students,” cautions Pryor. “Even as we fortify our schools, we must ensure that they don’t become fortresses.

“One aspect of this work involves helping districts in improving school climates — supporting the social and emotional well-being of students and educators so that everyone feels like an accepted and valued member of the school community,” he adds.

In North Haven, where the town received a state grant for $65,000 to improve security measures in the schools, one resident is adamant that the additional cameras, walkie-talkies, buzzers and swipe-card systems aren’t going to stop a determined shooter.

Angelo Appi is on a mission. While school officials have increased security measures, Appi is urging them to take things to another level and place armed officers in all public-school buildings.

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the country in recent years. He’s also done an extensive amount of research on the Sandy Hook tragedy.

“Adam Lanza got off 154 shots in five minutes,” Appi says. “The police response was 14 minutes or 20 minutes, depending on whose account you look at. People are in denial. Video cameras didn’t help those kids at Sandy Hook.”

While Appi was pleased to hear about nearby North Branford’s effort, he has some concerns.

“I would like to see them shoot [firearms],” says Appi, who retired in 1991 and still teaches marksmanship skills. “Cops are missing 80 percent of the shots they’re firing at ten feet and closer. It’s a national statistic.”

But Schoonmaker maintains he was very encouraged by the quality of the pool of candidates who applied.

“It was amazing,” says Schoonmaker. “We had a deputy chief from New Haven, a retired Sergeant from Guilford, a retired motorcycle patrolman from North Haven, a former chief of police from the water company.”

Among them the candidates bring close to 200 years of law enforcement experience with them, according to Schoonmaker. In January they were placed, unarmed, in the schools. In the months that followed, all the officers completed rigorous firearms training that Schoonmaker says exceeded the requirements for state certification.

All passed with flying colors, he says. At press time, they were still unarmed, pending a final vote by the Board of Education. Schoonmaker expected his school officers to be armed by October 18, the day after the school board meets (after this edition of NHM went to press).

But when Appi spoke with a couple of activeduty officers recently, he asked them how frequently they practiced on the shooting range.

He was disappointed by their response.

“They said they’re not getting paid for it,” Appi says. “There has got to be a standard that goes beyond the standards set by the state of Connecticut. Any discipline requires ritual.”

Ideally, Appi says, he envisions filling these school officer positions with physically fit, skilled marksmen who are capable of running up and down flights of stairs and who can move from one end of the building to the other quickly.

 On a typical autumn morning, retired New Haven police officer Kristen Fitzgerald is at her post at Jerome Harrison Elementary School in North Branford. The school houses young children in kindergarten through second grade.

The scene is idyllic, with smiling children bustling about the corridors, excited to be heading for the playground for a much-needed opportunity to burn off some excess energy.

“People are too focused on the gun,” says Fitzgerald. “There is so much more that goes on here.”

Schoonmaker and Fitzgerald agree that the school officer’s job reaches far beyond sitting in a chair and waiting for a potential safety threat to arrive.

Since she’s been on the job, Fitzgerald has intervened in custody-dispute situations and diffused some tense behavior issues.

“Not everyone is going to be in favor of this,” Schoonmaker acknowledges. “We looked at other options and the cost was prohibitive. The bottom line is if someone is determined to get into a building, they’re going to.”

Fitzgerald explains that in a situation where a shooter has entered the building, the whole idea is to stop that person.

“You want to stop your threat,” she says. “And the only thing that is going to stop a bad person with a gun is a good person with a gun.”

On the playground, the children run up to Fitzgerald. Several girls invite her to try her skills at the hula hoop. Laughing, she declines but encourages them, admiring their hula hooping prowess. Seconds later, an errant ball flies by,

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“They have not wavered at all with their support,” Schoonmaker says of board of ed members. “It’s been a long process and one I’m sensitive to. We ask, ‘Does this make us safer than we were on December 14?’ And we keep coming up with ‘Yes.’ “ Appi, who earned 31 commendations during his career (once for disarming a woman who attacked him with a knife), has trained SWAT teams and officers and teaches marksmanship skills. In recent years, he says, he has seen marksmanship standards decline.

The objective of most marksmanship training now, Appi says, “is just to get people through the [police] Academy. In particular, he mentions stationary targets where an officer attempts to shoot the center. Each time a shot hits dead center, that officer earns five points. For every increment away from center, the point value decreases. But over the years, Appi says, the test has become compromised and the point value for hitting further from center is now the same as if the officer had hit the center of the target.

“I was a Marine and when I was with NHPD I practiced every day,” he recounts.

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“I know that I would be their front line target to get where they’re going,” Fitzgerald says of a potential shooter. “My goal is to stop them so they’re not going to get to those kids.”

Schoonmaker remains insistent that his biggest challenge is changing people’s mindset.

“Every second could save a life and that’s what we felt strongly about in placing an armed guard in each building,” he says.

Betsy Regan, a Branford mother of three, describes her reaction to the Sandy Hook shootings as one of absolute horror. “You can picture yourself in that situation in an instant,” she says.

Regan’s three children, aged five, eight and ten at the time of the Newtown tragedy, had different reactions when they learned what happened.

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“The television was not turned on all weekend,” Regan recalls. “With my five-year-old at the time, it didn’t really register at all. He just said, ‘Oh, that’s sad.’ “ But her eight- and ten-year-old daughters had questions, Regan says.

“It was really interesting because my eight-year-old wanted to know what happened to the man who did it. We took that to mean, is it over?

And was she safe,” says Regan.

“When she asked what his name was we told her that didn’t matter.”

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“She asked a few more particular questions about why he did it,” Regan says. “We answered each of their questions. We did not watch TV. We didn’t dwell on it over the weekend, and their teachers were amazing. All the teachers everywhere were amazing going back to school that following Monday.”

Asked her opinion of putting armed officers in schools her children attend, Regan ponders the question for a few moments before replying.

“I’m glad it wasn’t one of the options on the table in Branford because I think it’s a little extreme,” she says.

She is likewise thoughtful when questioned about the older generations’ mindset of believing that once the children get inside the school building, they are presumed safe.

While she believes it is still an issue, she remarks on some pressing safety issues she sees as she walks her children to school each day.

“I see people on cell phones, people with small children in front seats of cars with no car seat,” says Regan. “There are so many dangers with getting your kids to school.

Now the danger is in the school as well. And now we have so much information, we have too many things to be scared of.”

A regular volunteer in her children’s schools, Regan also sees things other parents don’t.

“I could see the teachers I work with and the reaction they had,” recalls Regan. “They were afraid.

They did everything they could to deal with the kids.”

It was also unsettling, Regan maintains, to experience lockdown drills the week after the Sandy Hook shootings. “I think every school in the country had a lockdown drill the week after,” says Regan.

She adds that she has heard people speak at PTA meetings and express the opinion that the most comm0n danger to children in schools is parental conflict over custody issues.

As far as added security in her school district, Regan notes that there are now double-lock doors to get into the school buildings.

“So now you have to be buzzed in twice,” she explains. “At the elementary school the secretary knows everybody, but at the middle school you have to show your ID to walk in the door,” Regan adds.

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Built in 1882, the caretaker “cottage” for the Winchester Observatory on Canner Street (now known as the Yale Observatory) is anything but a “cottage.”

Wilson home sat on a location that would soon become the site of the new Celentano School. Here is where the saga of this home takes a turn that makes this home’s rebirth both pragmatic, and even heroic.

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The building is a fully realized Queen Anne manse at the crest of Prospect Hill, and is formally known as the Robert W. Wilson House — the namesake of its first caretaker occupant.

Before the New Haven Preservation Trust (NHPT) created a full-throated preservation constituency in New Haven by saving the nearby Davies Mansion from Yale’s wrecking ball in the late 1970s (as a consequence of which it was ultimately reborn as the Betts House), the Wilson House would have simply been razed for the greater good of building a new school.

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As with so many of its brother and sister grand homes in New Haven, this fine three-story residence fell from grace through the 20th century, until Yale was using it to house graduate students. In 2002 Yale gave up, and donated the Wilson House to the city of New Haven.

But to NHPT Executive Director John Herxan, the Wilson home was “an outstanding example of the neighborhood’s built environment” — the Prospect Hill Historic District.

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City government had just embarked on a massive (and costly) initiative to build dozens of new public schools. The

But instead of demolishing an iconic building, the city stepped up to the plate and spent almost $200,000 to relocate the structure to a new foundation. It did not make economic sense to use

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it as part of the school, or for other academic functions, so it sat fallow for the better part of a decade, awaiting private development.

Around the same time as the Wilson home’s stay of execution, a new entity began to take rehabbed New Haven housing stock seriously.

Shmully Hecht and investors, including some Yale alums, created Pike International, whose mirrored “P” logo set to a Yale blue background has become ubiquitous in the neighborhoods around the Yale campus where once grand structures had deteriorated into shabby student housing as their primary building type.

Pike has renovated homes and small commercial buildings into more than 100 apartments.

But unlike other profit-driven landlords, Pike has an attitude, best evidenced by a signs seen around Prospect Hill that read

“Who Needs Greenwich?”

Pike’s mission to create value through renovation while pursuing an incremental (but relentless) search-and-rehab strategy found a perfect partner to take its efforts beyond repair into design: an architect who loves creating within the context of existing structures.

Fernando Pastore is an architect who came to America from Brazil just before the Wilson House was moved and Pike International was formed.

Pastore worked for Herbert Newman and then Svigals + Partners, and then opened his own firm, SEEDnh, some four years ago. Pastore has collaborated with other firms, but serves as Pike International’s goto architect, working on many of its recent projects.

When the city decided to fully market the Wilson House to prospective buyers, it was a

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Ceiling framing is revealed by selective demolition to become a lighting-diffuser. In the same space, trim and fireplace are restored.

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inserts strategic skylights and playfully applies bits and pieces of reused framing lumber, reapplied stairway parts as well as baring the necessary new naked pipes, ducts and light fixtures. It’s a dance of obviously old and explicitly new, a dynamic in which Pastore revels.

Top floors of the units are lofted to the rafter undersides, making for some dramatic spaces. Kitchens and baths feature a high level of finish and fixtures for rental properties.

Restored wood floors, fireplaces, trim and staircases keep the home’s antiquity ever present.

The project, and Pike’s burgeoning portfolio, are unapologetically for profit, but follow an ethos deeply rooted in the genuine attitude that the greenest building is the one that is not torn down. The 100-plus renovations, remodeling and reuse projects do make money for Pike and its investors: The firm proudly proclaims that a one-bedroom unit, at $2,400 monthly rent, is “the highest in New Haven.”

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Some watch from the safety of perches on nearby park benches. Others encircle the group, heads bowed, as they guard their prized possessions packed in a variety of bags. And still others are front and center singing, playing musical instruments and praying.

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whether rain, snow or sunshine. The only forced cancellation occurred in the past year due to Superstorm Sandy and the blizzard. Otherwise a hearty group of church ministers, bolstered by a revolving list of volunteers from many other churches and organizations, offer messages of the Bible’s gospels along with a bagged lunch, snacks and a cup of hot coffee along with sincere words of encouragement.

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Pedro Ortiz drums up support for the outdoor Eucharist, which takes place each Sunday without regard to season or weather.

While not all of the ranks of those attending the service are active participants in the joyful service, which includes rousing hymns and music along with strong messages from the Bible, they are clearly more than attentive bystanders.

On one recent afternoon some tapped a foot only with the beat of the music and others nodded along with Kelsey’s words of support and encouragement.

They bring along their own petitions of need, one young man asking for prayers as he tries to work his way toward a medical school path, others remarking that they can’t say “Thank you” enough for this special opportunity.

“I feel like they care,” says one man, who says no matter where he is in

the city he always makes his way to the Green on Sunday afternoon.

“This is my church,” he adds, with a nod toward the service.

“From the very start we imagined that this would be a ministry for housed and unhoused persons, for people who wanted a different experience of church, for people who would never darken the door of a church. This is as true now as when we started,” explains Kyle Pedersen, one of the co-founders and a Trinity Episcopal deacon.

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planning to cancel when just at 2 p.m. someone showed up and asked, ‘Aren’t we going to have service today?’ recalls Pedersen. “And so we did, in the blustery snow. And by the time 3 p.m. had rolled around, 30 people had come by for prayers and songs, socks and gloves and a bag lunch. We learned that Sunday how important showing up really is.”

 Kelsey and Pedersen explain that Chapel on the Green is one of the network of affiliates known as Ecclesia Ministries, formed from Common Cathedral, a Boston outdoor worship service started 15 years ago. Common Cathedral was founded by Debbie Little, an Episcopal priest who was doing street outreach and ministry in Boston. Here in New Haven the 2007 Trinity youth group under then-Associate Rector Alex Dyer attended a Boston service and suggested that a similar effort might be launched on the New Haven Green.

“That began a year of conversation to see if in fact we could start something like that here,” Pedersen recalls. “We spoke with people who were homeless or did homeless outreach. We spoke with other churches and community leaders. We established a planning committee and finally decided to launch a service on All Saints Sunday [November 2] 2008.”

Coordinating the project are Mark and Luz Catarineau Colville of New Haven. Their duties include coordinating groups interested in volunteering as well as the weekly celebrants for the service and special services throughout the year. “This year we have 22 organizations, churches and youth groups involved in hosting a meal, six of them are new to Chapel on the Green,” says Luz Colville. “The summer months are always hard to fill. With the overflow shelters closed we have more people in the streets and so the need to serve more meals has increased.”

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The Colvilles are also co-founders of the Amistad Catholic Worker.

“The groups come in all sizes,” she explains. “The hosting group is asked to bring at least six volunteers to set up and serve up the lunches, coffee, juice and desserts. Chapel on the Green has a core group of volunteers through our ministry of Amistad that comes to fill in where needed.

“The hosting group prepares the sandwiches at their own facility and pays for the items that would go into the bags including, a bottle of water, a fruit, a dessert/chips, a sandwich; meat and cheese, or a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich.

Amistad Catholic Worker provides baked goods served with the coffee and juice generously donated from many businesses like Bishops Orchard, Big Y, Stop & Shop, to name a few,” says Luz Colville.

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The group, through its host liaison Anne Thatcher, has already started to fill slots for 2014.

Since its inception, Pedersen says, Chapel on the Green participation from area churches, students and faculty at Yale Divinity School, the Episcopal Church at Yale, the University Church at Yale, Columbus House and many others.

The group is also in need of toiletries and new coats, hats, scarves and gloves to distribute to participants.

Last year a graduate student at Albertus Magnus started leading arts projects following the services.

For the future, the ministry is hoping to find more ways for participants to take on more leadership roles.

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A Paintbrush

Was Their Weapon

By MICHAEL C. BINGHAM

Modest in scale (two dozen artworks on view) but packing an emotional punch, The Art of War offers a slice of one of the most successful public-relations (read: propaganda) campaigns in modern history.

Its success in generating support — physical, financial and emotional — for the United States’ entry into World War I was instrumental in tipping the scales in favor of the Triple Entente in what had been a murderous deadlock.

Unlike in the wake of December 7, 1941, when Americans rallied virtually unanimously in favor of retaliation against the treacherous “Japs,” United States’ entry into World War I was far from universally popular. The theme of Woodrow Wilson’s 1916 re-election campaign was “He Kept Us Out of War” — yet scarcely a month after his second inauguration the nation found itself at war against

the Triple Alliance (Germany, AustriaHungary and the Ottoman Empire).

To raise an army virtually from scratch Congress authorized the first draft since the Civil War – anathema to any Americans, some of whom considered the draft tantamount to involuntary servitude — a violation of the 13th Amendment that freed the slaves. In addition, a much greater proportion of Americans in 1916 celebrated their German heritage than today.

To drum up support for the war effort, the Wilson administration turned to journalist George Creel to head a new government department: the Committee on Public Information (CPI, also informally known as the Creel Committee). Its mission was to release government news, to sustain morale on the home front, to administer voluntary press censorship, and to develop propaganda abroad.

Shortly following Congress’ declaration of war, the Society of Illustrators met in New York City to explore means by which artists could advance the patriotic cause. Creel

asked society president Charles Dana Gibson to appoint a committee to produce artwork to support the war effort.

relief efforts in Europe during and after the fighting stopped on November 11, 1918, and its mission and funding was abetted by the artists. Another powerful work that reflects that mission is William Balfour Kerr’s “Knights of Columbus Three Million War Fund” (1917). This powerful work features the irresistible iconograph of a priest raising a crucifix heavenward, surrounded at his feet by countless American sailors and soldiers (leaning on carbines with fixed bayonets) in devout prayer to the Almighty.

Before long that committee, which came to be known as the Division of Pictorial Publicity, grew to include 279 artists, painters, designers, illustrators and even 33 cartoonists, who before the conflict ended produced work for 58 federal-government departments.

Another irresistible image is “United Behind the Service Star” (1918) by self-taught illustrator Ernest Hamlin Baker. Here uniformed, flag-bearing “soldiers” from such service groups as the YMCA, Salvation Army, National Catholic War Council and the Jewish Welfare Board stand at present-arms while in the distance legions of helmeted doughboys march behind the Stars & Stripes, rifles at the ready.

The message is clear: They also serve who fight the good fight on the home front.

As one high-ranking Washington official characterized their efforts at the time: ‘Their services were of more value to the government in forming public opinion than all other agencies put together.

No other group, no other profession did as much.”

One work that will immediately resonate with viewers is a poster “And Now the Fighting Fourth” by a thenunknown 24-year-old Massachusetts artist named Norman Rockwell. The “Fourth” of the title refers not to an infantry division, but the Fourth Liberty Loan of 1918 — a sale of war bonds to finance the unprecedented military buildup — which in barely three weeks raised almost $7 billion from 23 million subscribers.

Rockwell’s image, which graced the cover of the August 17, 1918 edition of the Literary Digest, features a young boy in uniform proudly showing off the badges he has collected from donors to the war-

bond drive. This early Rockwell work already evinces the homespun, small-town values that would later make him an American icon.

In a city rich with museums — celebrating art, history, natural history — the Knights of Columbus Museum remains an under-appreciated (and under-utilized) resource. Also on view there now is Windows into Heaven, featuring Christian icons from the last millennium, and The Supper at Emmaus, a popular subject among 17 th-century painters, among then Rubens, Caravaggio and Velasquez.

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in a tightly-knit small-town Napa Valley community circa 1950.

Casting is another challenge for any director of The Most Happy Fella.

Though the unusual plot is one of the musical’s central charms, we believe in the somewhat unlikely series of events only to the extent that we believe in the characters.

Our heroine, working in a seedy diner and dodging passes from her worse-than-seedy boss, finds a love note written on the menu and, in lieu of a tip, a man’s “genuine amethyst tie-pin.” At first cynically amused, the waitress discovers that she has been longing to be needed and decides to exchange postcards with “Tony,” of the “funny broken English” and Old World sincerity and charm.

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The Most Happy Fella, book, music and lyrics by Frank Loesser. Choreographed

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creation, “a musical comedy — with a lot of music!”

The sung-through musical is no longer a revolutionary hybrid, but any director must recognize the unusually varied expectations surrounding this piece. I first came to the show through the Robert Weede/Jo Sullivan album of 1956, and that recording led me to view The Most Happy Fella as an accessible opera — with a lot of eclectic and humorous songs.

Yet Loesser himself — rooted as he was in the traditional form of his previous hits, Guys and Dolls and How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying — imagined an intimate version of The Most Happy Fella using two pianos rather

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he wonder of Goodspeed Musicals’ current production of The Most Happy Fella, directed by Rob Ruggiero and playing through December 1, is not that it’s perfect (it is). What’s remarkable is that Ruggiero’s rendering sidesteps every one of the minefields inherent in Frank Loesser’s operatic musical — or, as he insisted on calling his

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than full orchestra. Goodspeed Musicals realized this dream with its 1991 revival, which garnered critical and popular success on Broadway. Inevitably, fans of each very different approach will bring their expectations to this production.

Musically, Ruggiero has married the best of two extremes in a beautiful unity. The orchestration, spotlighting the piano, is restrained, and the voices, though uniformly glorious, in every case eschew operatic pyrotechnics in favor of character. This choice of credibility over showy, bravura singing should be made far more often, in my view — but particularly in a story about waitresses, ranchers and those living

When we meet Tony among his many friends on his Napa Valley vineyard, trouble is already brewing.

He is many years older than our waitress, and he is more than plain; she has sent him her photograph and asked for a photograph in return. In a panic, he sends her the photo of his handsome foreman Joe, who is leaving the ranch.

However, when the waitress arrives at the vineyard — a “mail-order bride” — Joe is the first person she encounters, and despite some intervening sweetness, we fear we may be headed for a classically operatic tragedy.

So Tony’s “Rosabella,” as he dubs the waitress, must win our hearts, and the hearts of two other men, at first sight — and must at the same time be a lonely and ordinary woman, and no innocent. Tony’s age and looks must justify the lines, “I’m afraid to look in you eye and shake-a the hand ‘Hello’/I’m afraid you slappa my face and you go!”

Then there is Joe, the foreman.

He should be handsome, sure, but if he comes across as a wolf in his initial scene with Rosabella, his affectionate defense of Tony rings hollow, and he instantly loses our sympathy.

Given this triangle, Ruggiero has refused any temptation to glamorize. As Tony, Bill Nolte looks large, lined and rough — though, as Rosabella sings to him, his smile is enough to make a girl feel “warm all over.” As for Mamie Parris’ Rosabella, she is lovely but wary NEWHAVENMAGAZINE.COM

and wan; clearly she has lived life’s disappointments. Even when she warms up to “the friendly faces” of the Napa Valley folk, and begins to bloom, the change is slow and subtle. And Doug Carpenter as Joe makes for an inspired choice.

Innocent and boyish, Carpenter sings his signature number, “Joey,” not as a crooner (the typical approach) but as a confused youth whose footloose nature hides his own shy, inchoate longings.

Importantly, too, Ruggiero has brought out the desperate loneliness in Tony’s possessive sister, Marie (the lovely, soft-faced Ann Arvia).

In other productions Marie, who generates most of the plot’s conflict, often comes across as waspish.

Arvia’s voice, both singing and speaking, tends towards softness, and even when she speaks unkind words, we understand that they express her fear of losing her beloved brother.

The humorous couple — Rosabella’s great pal Cleo (the sparkling Natalie Hill) and Herman (Kevin

Vortmann) — are also beautifully cast. Hill in particular combines humor and sex appeal in a delectably spiky mix. But she is ready to fight when the time comes.

In the role of the town doctor, Michael Deleget unexpectedly seals the tone of Ruggiero’s production. A character usually played for comedy, this Doc is a gently wise man: As he sings “Love and Kindness” and “Song of a Summer Night,” his rich, mellifluous voice urges forgiveness and peace.

All of the actors, Ruggiero, and his stellar colleagues — music director Michael O’Flaherty, scenic designer Michael Schweikardt, costume designer Thomas Charles LeGalley and lighting designer John Lasiter — have given us a beautiful, poignant and completely plausible production of The Most Happy Fella. Gentleness and forgiveness, or at least their possibility, suffuse every scene, just as the Napa Valley light suffuses the play’s sweetest moments 

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cultural heritage — it is a work of beauty, not to mention a warmly satisfying experience.

The genesis of this effort came when Wesleyan earth science professor Jelle Zeilinga de Boer visited the New Haven Museum and for the first time encountered in the museum’s rotunda paintings of East Rock and West Rock by 19thcentury landscape painter George Henry Durrie.

De Boer had previously seen Frederick Church’s well-known painting of West Rock in the New Britain Museum of American Art.

That encounter marked the genesis of what would become a major 2012 New Haven Museum exhibition sharing the same name as the book created to commemorate it. “Sentinels” refers to the name Lydia Sigourney gave East and West Rocks in her 1844 poem “Moonlight at Sachem’s Wood,” remarking on how the two promontories seem to guard New Haven northward access to the Connecticut Valley.

Lifelong New Haveners take their two signature “geotopes” — the distinctive basalt slabs that

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bookend the Elm City skyline — for granted.

But these natural structures loom large in both the geology and cultural evolution of North America.

The mirror-image formations represent a moment in geological time when the North American and African continents separated, giving birth to the Atlantic Ocean. Moreover, east and West Rocks offer evidence of a 200-million-year-old magmatic event that covered much of present-day Connecticut with steaming lava flows and hot springs.

That may be as much as most general-interest readers care to learn about the geology of the rocks, but those with a scientific bent will be rewarded with such chapters as “Silliman’s Conundrum: The Role of Basalt in the Geological Controversy Between Neptunists and Plutonists” (!).

Onto objects of beauty. More than a dozen prominent 19th-century landscape painters were captivated by the two formations. New Haven’s Wine merchants Sentinels groups thesince works1934 into views of the city from the rocks, images of East and West Rocks separately, and a section devoted solely to paintings of Judges Cave on West Rock.

A colorful (and fanciful) depiction by Thomas Pirchard Rossiter, ‘The Regicide Judges Ministered by the Ladies of New Haven’ (1859). In reality, the benefactors never climbed the mountain when their ‘guests’ were present.

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(For those New Haveners who may have been living in an, um, cave, Judges Cave is where in the 1660s, following the Restoration, “regicides” William Goffe and Edward Whalley sought refuge from representatives of King Charles II for having been among the 59 signers of the

death warrant of the monarch’s father, Charles I. An 1896 plaque on Judges Cave Rock read “Opposition to Tyrants is Obedience to God.”) In the second half of the 19th century landscape scenes came to predominate the American painting arena, replacing the portraiture that

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Among the best-known of these artists were Hartford-born and –raised Frederick Church and Durrie, likewise a Hartford native, renowned for his farm and winter scenes.

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The latter’s 1857 painting, “East Rock, New Haven,” captures the luminism so characteristic of Durrie’s work. This side view of East Rock’s precipitous scarp and gently sloping scree zone overlooks the placid Mill River on which two boatmen ply their small vessel.

Forty-four years later, John F. Weir’s “New Haven from East Rock” is painted from a similar southward view — but with a dramatic difference.

The dozen or so billowing smokestacks on the horizon illustrate the extent to which the City of Elms had become industrialized in the latter years of the 19th century.

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Among the most interesting views of the other Rock is Thomas R. Waite’s c. 1900 “West Rock,” which contrasts the apparent “columns” of the cliff face against the serene pasture and tranquil West River below. Waite’s vibrant colors and gauzy textures reflect the ascendance of impressionism over the more literal classical American landscapes that it eclipsed.

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Cabaret In Sarah Kane’s Crave, a woman sits at a typewriter, trying to put something indescribable into words. Three strangers invade her privacy and stir up a vocal frenzy riddled with desire: “I want…”, “I need…”, “I must…” Hansol Jung directs. November 14-16 at Yale Cabaret, 217 Park St., New Haven. $20. 203-432-1566, yalecabaret.org.

The bell curve has cracked. The gap between the richest Americans and everyone else is the widest it’s been since the 1920s. Is there anything we can do about it? Derivatives, a multimedia piece devised by an ensemble, strives to unite the audience in a conversation about wealth, minimum wage and the ever-increasing gulf between the haves and the have-nots.

Conceived by Jabari Brisport; Cole Lewis directs. November 21-23 at Yale Cabaret, 217 Park St., New Haven. $20. 203-432-1566, yalecabaret.org.

Opening Arthur Miller’s The Price is set 40 years after the stock market crash of 1929 and explores how economic challenges can impact families and the choices we make. In an overstuffed attic apartment, two long-estranged brothers — one a cop, the other a doctor — agree to meet to sell off what remains of their late father’s furniture and find themselves in an emotional renegotiation of the past. November 7-December 1 at Seven Angels Theatre, 1 Plank Rd., Waterbury. $45.50. 203-757-4676, sevenangelstheatre.org.

In The Seagull (1896) by Anton Chekhov, a group of friends gather at a country estate to see an experimental play written and staged by Konstantin, an aspiring playwright who dreams

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by Konstantin’s lover Nina; among the audience are his mother Arkadina, an aging actress, and her lover, famous writer Trigorin. What starts as a casual love affair soon turns into a whirlwind of fatal events, torments of unrequited love, clashes of opposing views on art, betrayals, shattered dreams, denied hopes and ruined lives. 7 p.m. November 13-14, 8 p.m.

November 15-16 at CFA Theater, 271 Washington St., Middletown. $8. 860-685-3355, wesleyan.edu/cfa.

Performed by students of Sacred Heart Academy, Annie boasts one of Broadway’s most memorable scores, including “It’s a Hard-Knock Life,” “Easy Street,” “N.Y.C.” and “Tomorrow.” 8 p.m. November 15, 2 & 8 p.m. November 16 at Shubert Theater, 247 College St., New Haven. $25-$10. 203-562-5666, shubert.com.

Based on the modern-day classic movie, Elf: The Musical is the tale of Buddy, a young orphan who mistakenly crawls into Santa’s bag of gifts and is transported back to the North Pole.

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Mamma Mia! is the hit musical that combines Abba’s greatest hits, including “Dancing Queen,” “S.O.S.,” “Super Trouper,” “Take a Chance on Me” and “The Winner Takes It All,” with an enchanting tale of love, laughter and friendship. 7:30 p.m.

November 22, 2 & 8 p.m. November 23, 1 & 6:30 p.m. November 24 at Shubert Theater, 247 College St., New Haven. $115-$12. 203562-5666, shubert.com.

August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences. Troy Maxson found glory in his youth battling fastballs on the outside corner in the Negro Leagues. But now it’s the 1950s — his opportunity to play in the major leagues has passed and he’s a garbage man. He struggles to provide for his family, trying to contain his bitterness as he seeks solace by spinning tales on his front porch. Because of his race Troy is left in a world where

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A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens’ classic tale of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, who discovers the true meaning of Christmas with the help of Tiny Tim and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future. Features two dozen traditional Christmas carols including “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen,” “The Holly and the Ivy,” “Here We Come a Wassailing” “Away in A Manger” And “O Come, O Come Immanuel.” 7:30 p.m. November 29, 2 & 7:30 p.m. November 30, 1 p.m. December 1 at Shubert Theater, 247 College St., New Haven. $100-$15. 203-562-5666, shubert.com.

Owners, a comedy by English playwright Caryl Churchill, (author of Cloud Nine and Top Girls) tells of the story of Marion, whose husband wants her dead — but Marion’s too busy to notice. The North London real estate market is booming, and she’s out to make a killing. Her loyal young protégé — a would-be suicide who can’t quite seal the deal — is happy to do her dirty work until he gets a better offer. When Marion discovers she can’t buy out a family from one of her properties, she instead takes ownership of their most prized possession.

Through November 16 at Yale Repertory Theatre, 1120 Chapel St., New Haven. $78. 203-432-1234, yalerep.org.

Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist. Did he fall?

Or was he pushed? Only one man can cut through massive bureaucratic duplicity and reveal what happened to the suspected anarchist who died at the bottom of a fourth-floor police station window. In a world of commonplace deception and organized corruption, he stands as a bastion of honor and justice—he also happens to be a notorious liar, quick-change con artist, and certified maniac. Christopher Bayes directs.

November 30-December 21 at Yale Repertory Theatre, 1120 Chapel St., New Haven. $98. 203-432-1234, yalerep.org.

Continuing In The Underpants, a co-production with Hartford Stage Co., pretty, young Louise is bored with her stuffy bureaucrat of a husband and her small life. Dreaming of adventure and romance, she goes out to see the King on parade and an unexpected thing happens — her lacy bloomers accidentally fall to her ankles, earning her notoriety, a series of smitten suitors and more excitement than she’s had in years. Adapted by actor and comedian Steve Martin. Directed by Gorden

Frank Loesser’s musical The Most Happy Fella is a love story about a city bride who is wooed by an aging Italian grape farmer who nearly botches everything until his true goodness shines through. Songs include “Standing on the Corner” and “Somebody, Somewhere.” See review this issue. Through December 1 at Goodspeed Opera House, 6 Main St., East Haddam. $78-$37. 860-873-8668, goodspeed.org.

Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook is a romantic comedy about Sue and Dan, a couple who after 20 years of marriage have drifted apart. Together they discover a box of photographs which leads them to relive the memories of their past selves captured in the snapshots. The couple discovers the humorous twists of how love united them and why life has pushed them apart. Featuring fresh lyrics and orchestrations from composer Stephen Schwartz. Through November 17 at Norma Terris Theatre, 33 North Main St., Chester. $44. 860-873-8668, goodspeed.org.

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A sexy, hilarious romp, 50 Shades! The Musical* is the laughout-loud, critically-acclaimed musical parody of the Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon. *mature audiences

The Seven-Year Itch is a funny farce from the 1950s. The play takes a humorous look at the problems of a typical married man whose wife and son have gone to the beach for the summer. Alone in the apartment, he is unprepared for the arrival of a stunning new upstairs neighbor. 7:30 p.m. Wed.Thurs., 8 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 2 p.m. Wed. & Sun. through November 17 at Ivoryton Playhouse, 103 Main St., Ivoryton. $40 ($35 seniors, $20 students, $15 12 & under). 860-767-7318, ivorytonplayhouse. com.

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Classical Under the auspices of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, the Great Organ Music at Yale series presents Daniel Zaretsky performing works of Buxtehude and Bruhns. 8 p.m. November 6 at Marquand Chapel, 409 Prospect St., New Haven. Free. 203432-4158, music.yale.edu.

Lyricism & Longing. Scale emotional heights and depths with NHSO Concertmaster Ani Kavafian’s soaring Lark Ascending, the haunting melodies of Lady in the Dark, and Samuel Barber’s achingly beautiful Adagio as the New Haven Symphony Orchestra celebrates the Beineke Library’s 50th anniversary. Also, works of Ives and William Walton. 7:30 p.m.

November 7 at Woolsey Hall, 500 College St., New Haven. $69$15. 203-865-0831, newhavensymphony.org.

The New England Guitar Society’s International Guest Guitarist series opens with a recital by American guitarist Frederic Hand, who will perform a program of Renaissance music, his own works, as well as his arrangements of Gluck’s music and Bach’s Sarabande, Third Lute Suite (BWV 995). 8 p.m. November

Soprano Anna Antonacci and pianist Donald Sulzen perform Dall’Antichitá al verismo, including works by Montiverdi, Vivaldi, Gluck, Respighi and more. Presented by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. 8 p.m. November 16 at Sprague Hall, 470 College St., New Haven. Free. 203-432-4158, music.yale.edu.

The Yale Symphony Orchestra performs. HANDEL Concerto Grosso in C Major; KATHRYN ALEXANDER Become the Wind, a Concerto for Cello & Orchestra (world premiere, with Ole Akahoshi); SIBELIUS The Oceanides; STRAVINSKY Suite from The Firebird. 8 p.m. November 9 at Woolsey Hall, 500 College St., New Haven. Free. 203-432-4158, music.yale.edu.

Paolo Bortolameolli will lead the Zephyrus Project Orchestra in a performance of RiteNow: A Centennial Celebration of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. Performance include works by composers Fay Kueen Wang, Justin Tierney, Matthew Welch, Benjamin Wallace, Daniel Schlosberg, Gleb Kanasevich, Polina Nazaykinskaya, and Paul Kerekes. Production designer Solomon Weisbard creates immersive environmental design, with costumes by Ksenia Zhuleva. 8 p.m. November 17 at Woolsey Hall, 500 College St., New Haven. Free.

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Founding conductor Denis Mickiewicz leads the 60th anniversary gala concert of the Yale Russian Chorus Alumni, a tenor-bass a cappella vocal ensemble that specializes in sacred and secular music. Guest appearance by the Yale Slavic Chorus.

2:30 p.m. November 10 at Woolsey Hall, 500 College St., New Haven. Free. 203-432-4158, music.yale.edu.

Yale’s Horowitz Piano Series presents a recital by Leon Fleisher.

BACH Sheep May Safely Graze; TAKÁCS Toccata & Fugue for the Left Hand; KIRCHNER For the Left Hand; BACH Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor; SCHUBERT Fantasia in F minor for Piano Four Hands (with Katherine Jacobson Fleisher). 8 p.m.

November 13 at Sprague Hall, 470 College St., New Haven. $30$8. 203-432-4158, music.yale.edu.

With no less tradition than the gridiron set-to that follows the next day comes the semi-annual Yale-Harvard Joint Glee Club Concert. 8 p.m. November 22 at Woolsey Hall, 500 College St., New Haven. Free. 203-432-4158, music.yale.edu.

The Princess & the Firebird. Savor an evening of incandescent ballet music from Russia and France as the New Haven Symphony Orchestra brings Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite, Delibes’ dancing doll and Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty to life. Music Director William Boughton conducts 7:30 p.m. November 23 at Woolsey Hall, 500 College St., New Haven. $69-$15. Also, 3 p.m. November 24 at Morgan High School, 27 Killingworth Tpke., Clinton. 203-865-0831, newhavensymphony.org.

Music of Victoria, Howells, Britten and Jackson is on the docket when David Hill leads the Yale Schola Cantorum in a service of Evensong for All Saints. 5 p.m. November 15 at Christ Church, 84 Broadway, New Haven. Free. 203-432-4158, music.yale.edu.

Great Organ Music at Yale presents Peter Planyavsky performing works of Boely, Franck, Pierneé, Fuchs and Schmidt.

8 p.m. November 24 at Woolsey Hall, 500 College St., New Haven.

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

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Popular Nice to know you can still take a load off with the music of the Band. Former members Jim Weider and Randy Ciarlante present The Weight — Playing Songs of the Band in a tribute show that will include the group’s definitive songs and deep cuts. 8 p.m. November 2 at Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook. $40-$45. 877-503-1286, katharinehepburntheater.org.

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with Donald Sulzen, piano Music of Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Gluck, Donaudy, Respighi, and more

Ohio-based indie rockers Built To Spill have been kicking for 20 years now but still are a regular touring presence, despite not having released an album since 2009. They stop in Hamden as part of a lengthy autumn tour. 7 p.m. November 5 at Spaceland Ballroom, 295 Treadwell St., Hamden. $25. 203-288-6400, spacelandballroom.com.

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Widowspeak is a duo that crafts dreamy, Western-tinged rock that, with its haunting vocals and spaghetti-western guitar lines, recalls both 1970s psychedelic rock and 1950s pop. 9 p.m.

November 6 at Bar, 254 Crown St., New Haven. Free. 203-4958924. barnightclub.com

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With a tour called “All the Hits,” chances are it’ll be a crowdpleaser — but it probably would anyway. Rock royal Elton John makes his return to the Park City for one night only following a two-date sold out set nearly 10 years ago. He’s touring in support of his 30th release, last year’s The Diving Board. Webster Bank Arena, 600 Main St., Bridgeport. $160-$47.75. 203-345-2400, websterbankarena.com.

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The “Snap Crackle” of legendary jazz drummer Roy Haynes has made him the go-to skinsman for the likes Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane and Lester Young, and now the 2011 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner will bring his chops to Yale for a show with his Fountain of Youth Band. 8 p.m. November 8 at Sprague Hall, 470 College St., New Haven. $30-$20 ($10/$12 student). 203-432-4158, music.yale.edu.

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What more can be said about Elvis Costello? That he was one of the most essential figures of the post-punk era in the late ‘70s? That he’s become one of the most well-regarded singer/ songwriters in rock? Sure. How about that he’s embarking on a solo tour of the Northeast with a stop in the Elm City to play songs from across his career? Sold. 8 p.m. November 8 at Shubert Theater, 247 College St., New Haven. $83.70-$52.35. 203562-5666, shubert.com.

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Not to harp on it…: Deborah HensonConant, who wields her custom electric harp like Jimi Hendrix with his Stratocaster, rocks the Kate November 15.

Up-and-comer Amy Speace has had her “velvety, achy” voice compared to the likes of a young Lucinda Williams. She was even signed to Judy Collins’ own record label.

Hear for yourself when the singer/songwriter performs at the Kate. 8 p.m. November 8 at Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook. $25. 877-503-1286, katharinehepburntheater.org.

Israeli-born saxophonist and composer Michael Attias has enjoyed a long and adventurous career as bandleader, sideman and improv master that has spanned the globe. His quintet plays songs from last year’s Spun Tree album at Firehouse. 8:30 & 10 p.m.

November 8 at Firehouse 12, 45 Crown St., New Haven. $18 (early show), $12 (late) 203-7850468. firehouse12.com.

John Fogerty keeps on rollin’. The Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman and songwriter stops at the Oakdale to play all the killer-nofiller music of his career during his fall tour.

7:30 p.m. November 9 at Oakdale Theatre, 95 South Turnpike Rd., Wallingford. $75-$49.50.

203-265-1501, oakdale.com.

Hard to believe now, but back in 1963, the Beatles played second fiddle to R&B/rock ‘n’ roll singer Gary U.S. Bonds. Bonds has

since had a prolific career with collaborations that include Bruce Springsteen. He stops in Connecticut for a one-off performance. 8 p.m.

November 9 at Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook. $55. 877503-1286, katharinehepburntheater.org.

Jazz singer Steve March-Tormé carries the torch lit by his father, the legendary Mel Tormé, singing both his songs and his own self-penned tunes as well jazz standards.

His afternoon stop at the Kate this month is rescheduled from May. 3 p.m. November 10 at Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook. $30. 877-503-1286, katharinehepburntheater.org.

Mid-‘90s ska torch bearers Reel Big Fish can hardly say “everything sucks” if they’re still an active band upwards of 20 years later. They bring their “Don’t Stop Skankin’” tour to the Toad this month where there will indeed be plenty of skankin’. 7:30 p.m. November 11 at Toad’s Place, 300 York St., New Haven. $25 ($20 advance). 203-624-8623, toadsplace.com.

Bonnie Raitt has had exactly the type of long and storied career anyone would want: classic songs, being hailed one of the best singers

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Out of Hand: A Holiday Show features works by gallery artists.

November 14-December 22 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.

Opening Nancy Eisenfeld’s Dynamic Cycles: Freeze to Thaw features work based on materials found in nature. November 1-December 6 (opening reception 5:30-7:30 p.m. November 8) at Paul Mellon Arts Center, 332 Christian St., Wallingford. Open 9 a.m.-9 p.m.

Free. 203-697-2398, choate.edu/artscenter/boxoffice.

Artistry: American Craft for the Holidays. Works by more than 300 artists including ceramics, glass, jewelry, fiber, ornaments, accessories, toys, specialty foods and more.

November 1-January 5 (opening reception 5-8 p.m. November 1) at Mill Gallery, Guilford Art Center, 144 Church St., Guilford.

Open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. daily, noon-4 p.m. Sun. Free. 203-453-6720, guilfordartcenter.org.

Vincent Giarrano solo show focuses on life in New York City and contemporary women in the Big Apple. November 1-December 1 (opening reception 6-8:30 p.m. November 1) 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.

Daphne Taylor: Quilt Drawings is a solo exhibition of artistic quilts and drawings. November 1-December 3 (artist reception 5-8 p.m. November 1) at Reynolds Fine Art, 96 Orange St., New Haven. Open 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat. (until 6 p.m. Fri.). Free.

203-498-2200, reynoldsfineart.com.

The Creative Arts Workshop hosts its 45th annual Celebration of American Crafts. Holiday sale features fine contemporary crafts by more than 300 artists from across the United States.

November 2-December 24 at Creative Arts Workshop, 80 Audubon St., New Haven. Open 11 a.m.-7 p.m. daily, 1-5 pm. Sun. Free. 203562-4927, creativeartsworkshop.com.

Holiday Showcase. Traditional to contemporary paintings and pottery. November 4-January 4 at Elm City Artist Gallery, 55 Whitney Ave., New Haven. Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. 203-9222359, elmcityartists.com.

The Art of Picture Books: Creative Process in Visual Storytelling. Children book artists from the New Haven area have curated an exhibition of their work with an eye toward revealing the fascinating process of creating original work for young readers. Works by Doe Boyle, Frank W. Dormer, Deborah Freedman, Lynn Reiser, Sanna Stanley, Marcela Staudenmaier, Jennifer Thermes and Nancy Elizabeth Wallace. November

Give Art: Annual Holiday Exhibition and Sale features paintings, prints, sculpture, mixed media and photography.

November 29-December 22 (opening reception 2-6 p.m. December 8) at City Gallery, 994 State St., New Haven. Open noon – 4 p.m.

Thurs. – Sun. Free. 203-782-2489, city-gallery.org.

Continuing New England Landscape Invitational. A juried member/ invitational show in all four galleries of the Lyme Art Association. Through November 9 at 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.

Dot Works 2000-2004: Paintings by artist Jerry Saladyga.

Through November 10 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.

Everything Loose Will Land: 1970s Art & Architecture in Los Angeles, curated by Sylvia Lavin. Artists whose projects will be on view include Carl Andre, Ed Moses, Peter Alexander, Michael Asher, James Turell, Maria Nordman, Robert Irwin, Frank Gehry, Richard Serra, Coy Howard, Craig Elwood, Peter Pearce, Morphosis, Bruce Nauman, Craig Hodgetts, Jeff Raskin, Ed Ruscha, Judy Chicago, Feminist Studio Workshop, Miriam Shapiro, Alison Knowles, Robert Kennard, Leonard Koren, Studio Works, Noah Purifoy, Paolo Soleri, Ray Kappe, Denise Scott Brown, Archigram, L.A. Fine Arts Squad, Bernard Tschumi, Eleanor Antin, Peter Kamnitzer, Cesar Pelli, Andrew Holmes, Elizabeth Orr and others. Through November 9 at Yale School of Architecture Gallery, 180 York St., New Haven. Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat. Free. 203-432-2292, architecture.yale.edu.

Mask: Photographs by Rod Cook explores how the private condition is veiled by a façade or mask when presented to the public. Cook dove into the idea that how people outwardly represent themselves speaks more to how they wish to be received, rather than as a literal translation of what lives inside them. Through November 10 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.

The Milford Fine Arts Council and Connecticut Natural Science Illustrators presents a collaborative art show: Natural Sciences: A Fusion of Nature, Science & Art featuring work from the faculty of the Connecticut Natural Science Illustrators. ThroughNovember 15 at Milford Center for the Arts, 40 Railroad Ave., Milford. Open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Wed.-Fri., noon-2 p.m. Sat. Free.

203-878-6647, milfordarts.org.

Water Music: Art of Barbara Putnam and Gar Waterman.

Through November 17 at Contemporary Gallery, Mattatuck Museum Arts & History Center, 144 W. Main St., Waterbury.

Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat., noon-5 p.m. Sun. $5 ($4 seniors, children under 16 free). 203-753-0381, mattatuckmuseum.org.

I’ll Be Your Mirror, photographs by Kate O’Donovan Cook.

Through November 17 at Mattatuck Museum Arts & History Center, 144 W. Main St., Waterbury. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.Sat., noon-5 p.m. Sun. $5 ($4 seniors, children under 16 free).

203-753-0381, mattatuckmuseum.org.

Conversations: Paintings by Norman Sunshine. Through November 24 at Whittemore Gallery, Mattatuck Museum Arts & History Center, 144 W. Main St., Waterbury. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Tues.-Sat., noon-5 p.m. Sun. $5 ($4 seniors, children under 16 free).

203-753-0381, mattatuckmuseum.org.

Warp and Weft: Works on Paper features works by Anne DorisEisner. Through November 30 at Mary C. Daly, RSM Art Gallery, Mercy Center, 167 Neck Rd., Madison. Open 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Wed.Fri., 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Sat. Free. 203-245-0401, mercybythesea.org.

Faces of China, 1981. Photographs by Tom Zetterstrom, whose photographs offer a glimpse of China’s people in the third year of Deng Xiaoping’s “Reform and Opening Up.” Through December 6 at Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies Gallery, 343 Washington Terrace, Middletown. Open noon-4 p.m.

Tues.-Sun. Free. 860-685-3355, wesleyan.edu/cfa.

The Alumni Show II looks back at four decades of Wesleyan artists. Featuring 17 artists whose work spans a broad range of contemporary practice and media, including painting, sculpture, drawing, installation art, video art, performance and film. Through December 8 at Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, 283 Washington Terr., Middletown. Open noon-5 p.m. Tues.-Sun. Free.

860-685-3355, wesleyan.edu/cfa.

The Tenderness of Men in Suburbs. Photographs of the Boston suburbs as seen through the eyes of a 20-year-old artist, Laura Wexler, in the year 1968. Through December 18 at Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., New Haven. Open 3-5 p.m. Mon. & Wed. Free. 203-432-0670, yale.edu/whc.

The Art of War is a display of reproductions of World War I posters to document both the popularity and effectiveness of propaganda in support of the American war effort. See story this issue. Through May 31 at Knights of Columbus Museum, One

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century and a key figure in Italian CounterReformation painting. His works combine dazzling technical virtuosity and brilliant coloring with the naturalistic approach to subject matter more famous in the works of his contemporaries Annibale Carracci and Caravaggio. Through January 5 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. 203-4320600, artgallery.yale.edu.

Bruce Nauman Untitles (Equilateral Triangle), 1980, rebuilt 2013. From the exhibition Everything Loose Will Land at the Yale School of Architecture Gallery.

Harry Holtzman and American Abstraction is the first retrospective of abstract painter, teacher and writer Harry Holtzman (1912-87).

Drawn from the holdings of the Holtzman Trust, public collections, and private lenders, the exhibition brings new attention to the role Holtzman played in shaping abstract art in America from the 1920s to the 1980s. Through January 26 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.

State St., New Haven. Open daily 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Francesco Vanni: Art in Late Renaissance Siena. The first monographic exhibition

on this major artist includes more than 75 paintings and drawings as well as prints following his designs. Francesco Vanni (1563/64-1610) was the most important artist in Siena at the turn of the 17th

Music Calendar Continued from page 53 and guitarists of all time. Joining Raitt is fellow legend legendin-her-own-right, R&B and gospel singer Mavis Staples. 7:30 p.m. November 12 at Oakdale Theatre, 95 South Turnpike Rd., Wallingford. $75.50-$55.50. 203-265-1501, oakdale.com.

Cat Power, a/k/a singer/songwriter Chan Marshall, has been a fixture on the indie circuit since the ‘90s. She’s known for her music that mixes punk, folk, blues and sometimes soul or electronica, as she is for her onstage unpredictability, which has included meltdowns and abrupt cancellations. We’ll see how it goes when she plays a solo set this month in New Haven. 7 p.m. November 15 at Center Church, 250 Temple St., New Haven. $40-$36. manicproductions.org Deborah Henson-Conant takes the harp to a whole new dimension. Not content to plaintively sit like the usual players, she straps her customized electric harp to waist to perform with the exuberance of a rock star. 8 p.m. November 15 at Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook. $38-$35. 877-503-1286, katharinehepburntheater.org.

Michigan guitar-and-mandolin duo Billy Strings & Don Julin play traditional American string band music at rock-band levels of enthusiasm. You’ll be in for red-hot doses of Appalachian songs, gospel standards and bluegrass numbers from Strings, a 20-year-old guitar virtuoso, and Julin, a 30-year mandolin vet. 7:30 p.m. November 18 at Outer Space, 295 Treadwell St., Hamden. $12. 203-288-6400, theouterspace.net.

Jane Herships often goes under the alias Spider, but this time she’s using her real name for a fall tour of pastoral, hauntingly dreamy folk with Carrie Ashley Hill. 8 p.m. November 19 at Cafe Nine, 250 State St., New Haven. $5. 203-789-8281, cafenine.com.

Chris Cornell can perhaps rightly be considered an icon of modern rock, having fronted alternative rock radio mainstays Soundgarden and Audioslave. He turns the volume down considerably when he stops at the Shubert on his solo acoustic tour this fall to play songs from throughout his varied career.

Many Things Placed Here & There: The Dorothy & Herbert Vogel Collection. This student-curated exhibition presents as a whole for the first time the New York collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel’s vast and uniquely perceptive collection of contemporary art. Works by artists including Robert Barry, Lois Dodd, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Lucio Pozzi and Richard Tuttle.

While the Vogel collection has been highly regarded for its Minimal, Postminimal and Conceptual objects, the selection on view at YUAG reflects the broader variety of work produced in New York during this period.

Through January 26 at Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St., New Haven. Open 10 a.m.-5

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Wigging Out for the Holidays It’s the unofficial official musical kickoff to New Haven’s holiday season: Orchestra New England’s 34th annual Colonial Concert. Wigs, waistcoats and candlelight bring you back to a 1782 concert in Olde New-haven. Music of Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart and others.

This is the flagship concert of New England’s most versatile chamber orchestra, led by redoubtable Music Director (and ONE founder) James Sinclair. 8 p.m. November 30 at United Church on the Green, 270 Temple St., New Haven. $35-$20 ($75 includes pre-concert dinner at Graduates Club, 155 Elm St.)

p.m. daily except Mon. (until 8 p.m. Thurs.) 1-6 p.m. Sun. Free. 203-432-0600, artgallery.yale. edu.

Still Life: 1970s Photorealism displays works associated with Photorealism — a movement of painters who took photography as their subject and sculptors who recreated the human body with surprising accuracy. A significant trend in 1970s art, Photorealism has sometimes been described since then as a more mechanical offshoot of 1960s Pop art. However, the works in Still Life make a compelling argument that Photorealists captured life in the 1970s with a grittier honesty than has previously been acknowledged. These works have renewed relevance as the ability of photography to capture “the real” has undergone dramatic changes and continues to develop in unanticipated ways. Through March 9 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. 203-4320600, artgallery.yale.edu.

Red Grooms: Larger than Life. This installation of oversized paintings and works on paper by American artist Red Grooms from the recent bequest of Charles B. Benenson (Yale Class of 1933) includes “Picasso Goes to Heaven” (1973), “Studio at the Rue des Grands-Augustins” (1990-96), and the great 27-foot-long “Cedar Bar” (1986). Through March 9 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, artgallery.yale.edu.

8 p.m. November 20 at Shubert Theater, 247 College St., New Haven. $74.50-$53.65. 203-562-5666, shubert.com.

Eclectic indie rockers Gringo Star have an incredible knack for hooks and melody, and their always entertaining live shows are notable for the near continuous instrument hopping by each band member. They return to town for another free show at Bar with Ski Lodge and local heroes M.T. Bearington. 9 p.m.

November 20 at Bar, 254 Crown St., New Haven. Free. 203-4958924. barnightclub.com.

Steep Canyon Rangers won a Grammy with Steve Martin last year, but it’s not like they need him, anyway. The bluegrass chart-toppers come to Old Saybrook to show the folks a good time. 7:30 p.m. November 21 at Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook. $45. 877-503-1286, katharinehepburntheater.org.

Chris Dingman is a master of good vibes, literally. The New York City-based vibraphonist and composer brings his ensemble (piano, drums, bass, guitar, saxophone) to an intimate setting to present two performances of his latest piece The Subliminal & the Sublime. 8:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. November 22 at Firehouse 12, 45 Crown St., New Haven. $18 (early show), $12 (late). 203-785-0468. firehouse12.com.

Thrash metal veterans Slayer descends upon Wallingford to pummel your puny membranes with pure, unholy metal just before Thanksgiving, giving you something to be extra thankful for (metal). Raise those devil horns high. 7:30 p.m. November 26 at Oakdale Theatre, 95 South Turnpike Rd., Wallingford. $45$35. 203-265-1501, oakdale.com.

If you’re waiting for a ride on the nostalgia train, here’s just the thing. The Sixties Show features current members of the Smithereens as well former members of Billy Joel’s and Elton John’s bands and the Boston Pops to pay tribute to the many styles and hits of 1960s. 8 p.m. November 30 at Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook. $35.

877-503-1286, katharinehepburntheater.org.

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BELLES LETTRES The Mystery Book Club meets the first Wednesday to discuss a pre-selected book. Books are available for check out prior to the meeting. 3-4 p.m. November 6 at Blackstone Library, 758 Main St., Branford. Free. 203-483-6653, blackstone.lioninc.org/ booktalk.htm.

Power of Pictures illustrates the depth and breadth of images in Beinecke’s collections, from woodcuts to photographs, diagrams to cartoons. It shows how pictures, as much as texts, can illuminate what we know about writers, readers, artists and ourselves. Through December 16 at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St., New Haven. Free. Open 9 a.m.-7 p.m. weekdays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Fri., noon-5 p.m. Sat. 203-432-2977, beineckelibrary@yale.edu.

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. November 12 at Blackstone Library, 758 Main St., Branford. Free. 203-488-1441, ext. 318, blackstone.lioninc.org/booktalk.htm.

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. November 21 at Scranton Library, 801 Boston Post Rd., Madison. Free. 203-2457365.

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

7 p.m. November 21 at Young Men’s Institute Library, 847 Chapel St., New Haven. Free. thepoetryinstitute.com.

BENEFITS Boys & Girls Village of Milford celebrates 70 years of helping at-risk youth with a Shining Star Gala featuring cocktails, dinner, live music and a silent auction. Marketing guru and author (The Season of Second Chances) Diane Meier will emcee, while bestselling author and BBC broadcaster Frank Delaney keynotes. 6:30 p.m. November 9 at Trumbull Marriott, 180 Hawley La., Trumbull. $175 ($300/couple). Reservations. 203-8770300, bgvillage.org.

Join the New Haven Symphony Orchestra in celebration of its 120th Anniversary Biergarten Gala, commemorating the anniversary of the group’s founding by Morris Steinert, Dinner, German delicacies, music, auction, a raffle and much more. Past NHSO presidents James T. Morley and Robert Dannies will be honored, too. Cocktail attire — lederhosen optional! 6-10 p.m. November 16 at Adanti Ballroom, Southern Connecticut State University, 345 Fitch St., New Haven. $250-$135.

Reservations. 203-865-0831, newhavensymphony.org.

CINEMA A Kate Classic film presentation is Mary of Scotland (1935, 123 min., USA). John Ford directs this adaptation of a 1933 Max Anderson play. Recently widowed Mary Stuart (Katharine Hepburn) returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne, only to be opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.

2, 4 & 7 p.m. November 14 at Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook. $8. 877-503-1286, katharinehepburntheater.org.

How’s this for a cast: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift star in The Misfits (1961, 124 min., USA). A sexy divorcée falls for an over-the-hill cowboy struggling to maintain his romantically independent lifestyle in early 1960s

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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.

A double bill of funnymen Pat Oates & Brian Beaudoin come to Wooster Street. 8 p.m. November 15, 8 & 10:30 p.m. November 16 at Joker’s Wild, 232 Wooster St., New Haven. $18. 203-773-0733, jokerswildclub.com.

2012 was quite a year for Bill Burr, with a hysterical appearance on Comedy Central’s Night of Too Many Stars and the release of hilarious Web-exclusive special “Bill Burr: You People Are All the Same” under his belt. Come see what the buzz is about.

Mature audiences. 8 p.m. November 23 at Lyman Center for the Performing Arts, Southern Connecticut State University, 501 Crescent St., New Haven. $35 ($30 SCSU staff, $10 students). 203392-6154, tickets.southernct.edu.

CRAFTS 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.

November 26 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. November’s menu: sweet potato gnocchi with sage brown butter; bacon-braised Brussels sprouts with leeks and spicy sausage; boneless pork chop over herb-roasted potatoes with rosemary demi-glaze; and citrus ricotta cheesecake. 6:30 p.m. November 7, 14 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 through December 21 at Russo Park, corner Chapel St. and DePalma Ct. EDGEWOOD PARK: 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Sundays through December 22 at Whalley and West Rock Aves.

DOWNTOWN: 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Wednesdays through November 27 on the Green at Temple & Chapel Sts. 203-773-3736, cityseed.org.

DANCE Fall Thesis Dance Concert. A collection of new works presented by senior choreographers as part of their culminating projects for the dance major. 8 p.m. October 31-November 2 at Patricelli ’92 Theater, Wesleyan University, Middletown. $5-$4. 860-685-3355, wesleyan.edu/cfa.

Choreographer Kyle Abraham was born into hip-hop culture in 1977. He has created works for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, performed with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and David Dorfman Dance, and founded the ensemble Abraham.In.Motion in 2006. At Wesleyan, the company reimagines John Singleton’s 1991 film Boyz N The Hood in the Connecticut premiere of the 2012 dance work “Pavement.” 8 p.m. November 15, 3 & 8 p.m. November 16 at Patricelli ’92 Theater, Wesleyan University, Middletown. $25-$6.

860-685-3355, wesleyan.edu/cfa.

EXHIBITIONS Two years in the making, the exhibition Beyond the New Township: Wooster Square, curated by Elizabeth Pratt Fox and William Frank Mitchell, is a lively, in-depth exploration

of everything Wooster Square, from history to architecture to sociology — to even “Dogs of Wooster Square.” A must-see (see review, 8/13 NHM). Through February 28 at New Haven Museum, 114 Whitney Ave., New Haven. $4 ($3 seniors, $2 students). 203-562-4183, newhavenmuseum.org.

FAIRS & FESTIVALS Featuring crafts, vendors, raffles and tons of fun, the annual Winter Wonderland Craft Fair benefits a good cause — Seymour Pink, which fights breast cancer. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. November 23 at Seymour Community Center, 20 Pine St., Seymour. Free. 203-735-5148, facebook.com/ WinterWonderlandCraftFair.

FAMILY EVENTS 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. November 2 at Hagaman Memorial Library, 227 Main St., East Haven. Free. Registration. 203-468-3890, hagamanlibrary. info.

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.

HOLIDAY BAZAARS The Trinity Church Holiday Bazaar features homemade crafts, silent auction, tag sale, raffles, food court, surprise packages and more — a must for the serious holiday shopper. Proceeds benefit the restoration of the church’s magnificent stainedglass windows, a New Haven treasure. Noon-8 p.m. November 21, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. November 22-23, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. November 24 at Trinity Church on the Green, New Haven. Free. 203-624-3101.

Enjoy the living crèche, a “real bearded Santa,” hand-decorated wreaths and live Christmas trees, Franciscan pottery, basket raffle and ticket raffle with prizes including olivewood Crèche, iPad and overnight getaways, children’s booth with arts and crafts, refreshments and more at the 22nd annual Franciscan Christmas Fair. Proceeds benefit the programs and services of the Franciscan Life Center and Franciscan Home Care and Hospice Care. 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. November 23 at Franciscan Life Center, 271 Finch Ave., Meriden. Free. 203-237-8084, flcenter. org.

LECTURES Mary Beth Tinker, lead plaintiff in the landmark 1969 U.S. Supreme Court case that set the legal standard for students’ First Amendment rights to free expression, will discuss the current state of free speech and civics awareness among young people in America. The case, Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, arose after Tinker and two other students were suspended from their schools for wearing black armbands to school to mourn Vietnam War casualties.

The court upheld the students’ First Amendment rights to express themselves non-disruptively in public schools. 1 p.m.

November 12 in Grand Courtroom, Quinnipiac University School of Law Center, 275 Mt. Carmel Ave., Hamden. Free. 203-582-8652, quinnipiac.edu.

MIND, BODY & SOUL The Ives library hosts weekly Library Yoga classes suitable for all levels. Walk-ins welcome. Bring a yoga mat. 1-2 p.m.

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

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.

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 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). 203-432-5050, peabody.yale.edu.

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The Agoo Art Factory presents the seventh annual Forgot To Laugh: Sideshow & Animation Festival. Performers include knife-thrower the Great Throwdini, contortionist Leo the Human Gumby, sword-swallower Kryssy Kocktail, snake charmer Serpentina, weirdo magician Magic Moron and more.

Animators include Academy Award-winner Bill Plympton, Internet sensation Happy Tree Friends, comic-book creator Roman Dirge and work by Cheech Wizard creator, the late Vaughn Bodé. Mature audiences. 7:30 p.m. November 9 at Lyric Hall, 827 Whalley Ave., New Haven. $12. forgot2laugh.com.

In odd-numbered years the Yale Bulldogs conclude their gridiron season at home against those dastardly boys from Cambridge, Mass. ‘Twas ever thus. Noon November 23 at Class of 1954 Field, Walter Camp Field, Derby Ave., West Haven. $20-$8.

203-432-1400, yalebulldogs.com.

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

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

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. November 11 at City Hall Meeting Rm. 2, 165 Church St., New Haven. Free. elmcitycycling.org.

Road Races/Triathlons It’s the 20th annual Platt Tech 5K Race & Fun Walk, notable for its scenic (and flat) course. 10 a.m. (fun walk 9:15) November 3 at Platt Tech, 600 Orange Ave., Milford. $25. hitekracing.com.

The five-mile Wallingford Turkey Trot benefits a very good cause — the Ulbrich Boys & Girls Club. 1 p.m. November 24 at Stevens Elementary School, 18 Kondracki La., Wallingford. $20 advance, $25 race day. bgcawallingford.org.

Work off that turkey and stuffing in advance by getting up early for the Stratford Masonic Bodies’ tenth annual Turkey Day Trot, a USATF-certified 5K that’s flat and fast. 8:15 a.m. November 28 in Stratford Center. $20 advance ($30 after 11/16). 203-377-6056.

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IB O DY & SOUL really hope I never have to set foot in the space at 932 State Street again, at least in a professional capacity. It’s not that the new Oak Haven Table & Bar at 932 State is bad — quite the opposite. It’s just that this ill-starred location has been home to at least four restaurant “concepts” in the past few years, and I hope Oak Haven can finally make it stick.

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Bits and pieces of the décor from earlier efforts survive at Oak Haven to make for a pleasing mix of textures: tile, brick, leather and dark woods. New are the Edison bulbs in mason jars that cast a flattering but dim light over the space — be prepared to squint at the menu.

A peppy oldies soundtrack added to the hip ambience on a recent night as people far too young to be nostalgic hummed along to the Jackson Five.

Attentive and knowledgeable service also made for a nice break from the past as my server enthused about certain cocktails and added just the right amount of extra detail to the descriptions on the menu. As befits its name, Oak Haven specializes in whiskey and whiskeybased cocktails. A seasonal

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The menu’s listing of small, medium and large plates need not ring alarm bells: Even the “snack” sized portions were ample and well-constructed. A snack of Brussels sprouts ($5) arrived as at least a cup of tender braised sprouts in an intriguing sauce of shallots and what could have been maple syrup.

An expert hand with vegetables distinguished the rest of the meal: Each plate arriving with lovingly prepared sides that could easily stand on their own. The endive salad ($9) boasted a crunch and freshness more like something you’d put together out of your garden than the wan greens usually offered at restaurants. Cubes of cucumber, assertive bleu cheese and curls of carrot added to the interplay of flavor and texture.

A “medium” plate of duck ($15) featured an ample serving of meat along with micro mustard greens, meltingly tender beets and caramelized quince. This diner is ready to

bid farewell to the revived microgreen trend — they usually add up to little more than a hairball on a plate. But the bright flavors and careful cooking of the other vegetable sides almost outshone the perfectly cooked and seasoned bird. It was one of the most satisfying and well prepared dishes I’ve encountered this year.

Time to revisit the cocktail menu: The barrel-aged cocktail of the night ($12) was another strong, subtle and complex blend featuring ginger liqueur and rum. Last was the pumpkin crème brulée ($7), what might result if you took the most luxurious, concentrated pumpkin-pie filling out there and topped it with a crispy sugar crust.

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But things started looking up with a plate of free snacks, a smattering of pickled vegetables and some boiled peanuts. This was this diner’s introduction to the sour, sweet and subtly spicy flavors of Taiwan, and it’s addictive. Especially fine was the crunchy pickled cabbage and cucumbers, a refreshing appetizer in the true sense of word.

Taiwanese cuisine is known for its hearty meats, and a braised pork belly dish ($7) beckoned from the appetizer menu. Savory notes of five-spice powder and soy infused the meat itself, set off by tender and sinfully rich layers of edible fat. Shreds of salty pickled cabbage and some neon slabs of pickled radish helped cut through the unctuous feast.

If you’ve got room after that, try the Taiwanese classic beef noodle soup ($11), a step up from the salt-and-MSG bombs served in other Asian cuisines. Slabs of lean beef shank lie on a bed of noodles in a brickred broth. Sour notes of citrus and nubs of buttery bok choy and green onion make

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this a relatively light lunch – you’ll want to empty your bowl. The thick, fresh-tasting noodles came in just the right proportion to set off the mild broth.

Also intriguing in its subtle and unexpected flavors was an entrée of Three Cup Chicken Casserole ($18), described as “Taiwanese Coq au Vin.” Known as a classic bar dish, the chicken is stewed in rice wine, sesame oil and soy sauce for an intensity of flavor comparable to the French classic. All of the dishes benefit from deft but limited use of hot spices.

The menu ranges beyond Taiwan to feature some Thai-inspired curries and Chinese mainstays like kung pao chicken and mapo tofu. I’ll be back to try unusual menu items like Bali prawns, something described as “Chinese Spaghetti Bolognese” and the “Lion’s Head Casserole,” which blends ground pork and crabmeat.

With its mix of flavors and cultures, Chao adds some spice to the Audubon district’s eateries and the city’s Chinese smorgasbord.

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Delicious In Waterbury, a make-your-own-chocolates bar

By SUSAN E. CORNELL

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chocolates,” Forest Gump’s mother famously explained.

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But we’ll let you know what you’re going to get at the new location of Fascia’s Chocolates in Waterbury: a “make-yourown-chocolate bar” tourist attraction.

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In many ways family-owned Fascia’s, which has been making gourmet confections pretty much the same way for 50 years, remains the same old-fashioned business you would expect looking at its traditional packaging. But Fascia’s now also satisfies Willie Wonka fans of all ages with a new factory that offers tours with a hands-on opportunity for visitors to make their own chocolate bars.

At the new factory and new retail store, on 44 Chase River Road, you can be right on the factory floor, with a hairnet, making chocolate. Once difficult to find in an industrial complex, the new facility is right off the highway with a prime location — literally two minutes north of I-84, which, the proprietors hope and believe will help fuel the retailer’s new tourism bent.

The new location is pretty sweet, particularly considering John and Helen Fascia began making candy in their home to supplement John’s work in a local factory. Half a century later, they’re

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both still at it, along with three grown daughters who’ve been working in the business since they were children (one of whom is charged with making gourmet cakes and cupcakes).

Everything for sale here — caramels, gourmet truffle cordial cherries, toffee, fudge, you name it — is made by hand in small batches on marble slabs. And everything is boxed by hand. This is truly a made-in-Connecticut confection with lots of family love and history. The treats can be found at about 30 locations including wineries (which use chocolates during tastings), gift and, candy shops, and IGAs. The new location dedicates more than 1,000 square feet of space strictly to “behindthe-scenes” tours while chocolate making is taking place. The tour guide (likely sonin-law/V.P. and General Manager Carmen Romeo) controls a camera with which he can zoom in if there’s something specific going on (pouring caramel, for example).

Romeo hopes to have films of how each product is made, since not every type of candy is made every day.

Fascia’s new location will continue to offer exclusive space for children’s birthday parties, private workshops and parties.

Factory tours run just under an hour and cost $5 per person, $10 to use the “makeyour-own-chocolate” bar. Reservations are not required but are recommended.

You don’t have to take a tour, however. You can come down, breathe the chocolate air, learn how chocolate is made, and stick your nose in the window and watch the action.

New offerings will include adult-themed events such as wine tastings (bring your favorite wine and taste a bunch of chocolate, decide what you like, and then go make that type of chocolate).

“There are many well-known chocolate factories in the U.S.,” explains Romeo, “but the majority of them do not allow visitors onto their factory floors, let alone to actually make their own chocolate treats.”

Ongoing public tours of Fascia’s Chocolates’ are scheduled Saturdays at noon, 2, 4 and 6 p.m., and Sundays 1 and 3 p.m. Fascia’s retail store is open year-round from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays; until 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays.

(Fascia’s is closed Mondays except between Thanksgiving and Christmas.)

On this educational family-fun tour you will taste chocolate and hear the history of Fascia’s, but the emphasis is learning how chocolate is made. Within a few months,

For the latest tour schedules, or to make reservations, visit fasciaschocolates.com.

For additional information, and to make phone reservations, call 203-753-0515.

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