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The Brain Tumor Program offers advanced treatment for patients with primary brain tumors, brain metastases and neurological complications of cancer. As part of the only interdisciplinary consortium providing comprehensive brain cancer care in southern New England, the coordinated team of medical professionals focuses exclusively on understanding and treating brain cancer. At Smilow Cancer Hospital, brain tumor specialists have access to the most advanced surgical tools and robotassisted machines, including intra-operative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and functional MRI for language and critical motor and language skills mapping. A wide spectrum of tools to diagnose and treat brain cancer make it possible to precisely diagnose and develop more effective interventions for tumors of the brain.

Endocrine Cancers Program The Endocrine Cancers Program offers evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of tumors of the thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal glands, pituitary gland, hypothalamus and pancreas. Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine malignancy. Smilow Cancer Hospital has one of the largest multidisciplinary endocrine cancer teams in the United States — including surgeons, endocrinologists, medical oncologists, pathologists, radiation oncologists and cytopathologists — who handle about 1,000 cases a year. Thyroid cancer begins as a tumor that develops in the thyroid, a butterfly-shaped gland at the base of the throat. The thyroid produces hormones that help the body work normally. Although many thyroid tumors are benign and thus not cancerous, there is a tremendous advantage to being evaluated and treated by experts in endocrine diseases.

Breast Cancer Program The Breast Cancer Program provides multidisciplinary, patient-focused care to women diagnosed with breast cancer. Breast cancer — the most common cancer in women — is the presence of a malignant tumor that forms from cells of the breast. The program’s health professionals provide coordinated, simultaneous appointments, rapid diagnosis and treatment and access to the most up-to-date technology and research protocols. Additionally, surgeons affiliated with the Breast Cancer Program perform breast surgery exclusively, making them more likely to understand the complexities of breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. Patient support staff provides essential services such as social work, pastoral support, nutritional advice, physical therapy and rehabilitation. Most important, patients receive personal, friendly, confidential care designed to meet the needs of the whole patient, not just the disease.

Gastrointestinal Cancers Program The Gastrointestinal Cancers Program provides all gastrointestinal cancer patients with a truly multidisciplinary approach to the treatment of their complex disease. Patients are seen on an individual basis by several cancer specialists — a medical oncologist, radiation oncologist, gastroenterologist and a surgeon — on their initial visit to Smilow Cancer Hospital.

These physicians work together to develop a comprehensive treatment plan that is clear and concise. In one visit, patients encounter a team of physicians who work together, combining their skills and knowledge to provide the highest quality of care.

Physicians in the Gastrointestinal Cancers Program care for patients with gastric bile duct, gallbladder, liver, gastrointestinal, colon and rectal cancers. Using a team approach, our physicians collaborate with diagnostic and interventional radiologists, gastroenterologists, hepatologists and pathologists to provide the most advanced care available.

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Gynecologic Cancers Program Each gynecologic cancer is unique, with different signs and symptoms, different risk factors and different prevention strategies. All women are at risk for gynecologic cancers, and risk increases with age. A woman who is experiencing abdominal or pelvic pain should see her doctor. Symptoms may be caused by something other than cancer, but an evaluation by a physician is the only way to know for sure. At Smilow Cancer Hospital, gynecologic oncology services unite a multidisciplinary team of clinicians. Our physicians are board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and in the subspecialty of gynecologic oncology, which brings together surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy.

In the Hematology Program at Smilow Cancer Hospital, highly specialized physicians with international reputations lead disease-based teams made up of specially trained data managers, research nurses, clinical nurses and care coordinators to provide each patient with highly individualized care. Physicians are finding particular success treating patients with various types of lymphoma, the most common blood cancer. They can now cure up to 80 percent of patients with Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Dramatic advances have been made in therapy for certain forms of leukemia. Several Smilow physicians are also experts in stem cell transplantation, which is part of standard therapy for selected patients with leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma.

For example, Yale-New Haven is one of a handful of cancer hospitals in the country to perform haploidentical transplants, which allow patients to be transplanted with mismatched or half-matched donor stem cells from a family member with whom they have only one set of genes in common.

Head and Neck Cancers Program The Head and Neck Cancers Program includes an experienced, multidisciplinary team that offers broad-based specialized care in early detection, treatment and prevention of various head and neck diseases, including those of the lip, mouth, nasal cavity, sinuses, larynx, pharynx, ear and skull base. In addition to surgeons, nurses and clinicians, the team includes skilled rehabilitation specialists in the areas of speech, swallowing and hearing restoration. Head and neck cancers are frequently aggressive and often spread to the lymph nodes of the neck. Patients often develop a second primary tumor.

If detected early, head and neck cancer is highly curable, usually with some form of surgery, although chemotherapy and radiation therapy may also play an important role. An exciting new surgical advance is the use of laser surgery to remove certain throat cancers, allowing surgeons to remove tumors without an incision in the neck. Breakthroughs in reconstructive surgery are among the biggest success stories for head and neck cancer patients, yielding previously unattainable cosmetic and functional outcomes.

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Sarcoma Program Each year, 130 Connecticut residents develop sarcoma — cancer of musculoskeletal support tissues such as bone, cartilage, muscle and the blood vessels or nerves in connective tissues. Sarcomas, which generally account for about 1 percent of cancers, fall into two main categories: bone and soft tissue.

At Smilow Cancer Hospital and Yale Cancer Center, a team of highly trained specialists is devoted to the diagnosis, treatment and care of patients with sarcoma. Advances — supported by groundbreaking research — in surgical techniques, medical oncology and chemotherapy, diagnostic imaging, radiation oncology and pathology allow this team to push the boundaries of success in treating patients. While the majority of patients’ lumps and bumps are diagnosed as benign tumors, when a cancer is suspected, the sarcoma team brings its expertise and creativity to bear on the individual patient because the correct diagnosis will drive how to best treat the patient. Research that has been done at Yale Cancer Center has dramatically improved the treatment of sarcoma. Today, the cure rate — not the survival rate — for sarcoma is around 80 percent.

Thoracic Oncology Program Prostate and Urologic Cancers Programs The Prostate and Urologic Cancers Program evaluates, diagnoses and treats cancers of the prostate, bladder, kidneys and testicles. These are common cancers, but very few institutions specialize in them. Smilow boasts a multidisciplinary team of experts, many of them world-renowned, who diagnose and treat patients with these cancers. The team meets and discusses cases among all subspecialties. Smilow has a unique immunotherapy program for renal cell cancer and conducts considerable research in prostate, bladder and renal cancers.

Lung cancer is still a frightening form of cancer, but patients who visit Smilow Cancer Hospital find their options for a good outcome are changing rapidly. Many patients with advanced stage disease are surviving for years with new cutting-edge treatments, and physicians are looking toward a future where they can talk about the once fatal disease as a chronic illness. Smilow’s Thoracic Oncology Program is a leader in treatment of lung cancer and other thoracic malignancies, such as esophageal cancer, thymoma and chest wall tumors. As soon as a new thoracic oncology patient’s CT scans, biopsies and other test results are available, Smilow physicians see the patient, review the evidence, discuss the case at the weekly multidisciplinary thoracic tumor board and decide on the best course of treatment based on the collective judgment of the team.

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New Haven recently celebrated the centennial of the Erector Set, Alfred Carlton Gilbert’s toy construction kit that was manufactured from Erector Square at Blatchley Avenue and Peck Street. The A.C. Gilbert Co. produced Erector Sets at the site until 1967, when it went out of business. The industrial complex is now used as artist and yoga studios, and research facilities. It is also one of the many locations for the yearly City-Wide Open Studios event.

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Senior U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal in July became the first elected official to post an op-ed to BuzzFeed — an opinion column in the form of a GIFheavy list to make young people aware of efforts to fight increases in student loan interest.

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GREENWICH — In the case of a high school prank gone too far, a 13-yearold Eastern Middle School student in Greenwich was arrested for allegedly spiking a teacher’s water bottle with urine.

NEW HAVEN — Is “Venti” an appropriate name for a boy?

A West Haven couple deadlocked about what to name their baby-tobe has turned to the coffee-swilling masses to help. Jennifer James and Mark Dixon frequent the Starbucks across Chapel Street from the New Haven Green, and have left a cup at the register asking patrons to vote on either of two names for the child: Logan or Jackson.

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The incident took place on the last day of school for the year. The student was charged with second-degree breach of peace.

Connecticut Is Burgeriffic

Little Logan is due in September.

Politicos Get Buzzed It’s been an Internet-heavy summer for a few Connecticut politicians, and viral media site BuzzFeed helped.

Erector Set — The original claim to fame and one of the most popular toys of all time, allowing children to build their own architectural models using riveted metal beams.

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Connecticut, and New Haven in particular, are no strangers to the hamburger. So it makes sense that food site the Daily Meal gave props for the state’s contributions to the fast food landscape.

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From the 1,800 votes received, Logan was the winner by nearly 500 votes, but both names will be represented anyway, as the baby will be named Logan Jackson Dixon.

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An inventor and businessman who held more than 150 U.S. Patents, Gilbert was graduated from Yale College, funding his education by working as an amateur magician. His successful campaign to reverse a ban on toy production during World War I earned him the nickname “The man who saved Christmas.” But chances are the slew of toys his company produced could have earned him that nickname regardless. It is likely his sets facilitated the education to a host of future physicists, scientists and manufacturers.

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New Haven’s Louis’ Lunch — the disputed birthplace of the American hamburger — and Ted’s Diner in Meriden took the No. 17 and No. 32 spots, respectively, on the Daily Meal’s ranking of the top 40 burgers in America.

Kaster Sets — Something that would almost certainly never make it into the hands of children today, the Kaster Kit gave kids the ability to cast figurines out of molten lead.

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Gilbert’s various microscope sets came with such objects as minerals and fly wings for budding science buffs to inspect.

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Hawaii had the highest life expectancy past age 65, with seniors living on average to age 86. Mississippi and West Virginia had the lowest life expectancies past age 65, with seniors making it only to about age 80.The data showed that Southern states had overall lower life expectancies.

Who You Callin’ Unfriendly?

Apparently visitors to the City of Elms don’t always feel so welcome.

The annual readers survey on the Condé Nast Traveler website features a user-voted ranking of the friendliest and unfriendliest cities in the U.S. New Haven came in at No. 3 on the unfriendly list, between Oakland, Calif.

(No. 2) and Detroit (No. 4).

Readers reported that, aside from Yale’s cultural contributions, people here were “rude” and “unfriendly.”

Five other Northeast cities joined New Haven on the list, including Albany, N.Y.; Atlantic City and Newark, N.J. (the latter topping, or perhaps bottoming, the list) and Wilmington, Del. By contrast, most of the “friendliest” cities are in Southern states. The friendliest? Charleston, S.C.

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The Man Who Burst the Bubbles Robert J. Shiller, 67, is the Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University.

The Detroit native is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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First things first: Are you a Detroit Tigers Fan? I should be, I suppose, but my father raised us unusually [with] absolutely no connection with sports. My father had kind of a smug attitude about it — ‘We don’t waste our time.’ It stayed with me, but my son is interested in sports. I grew up in Detroit but I never went to a single sporting event. My father would have been ashamed of me.

Part of why I asked is a lot of people in finance and economics get into numbers because of the data associated with sports.

When you were growing up the boy next door might have had a fireman’s hat on, but you can’t put an economist’s hat on. Where did your career choice germinate?

I could take interest in that [data]. My father was an engineer and he had a strong entrepreneurial sprit. He had this patent and founded a company which failed ultimately, but I somehow got his entrepreneurial spirit. You would think [his entrepreneurship] would go well with sports because it’s competitive. [But] it is our own unique Shiller brand. I thought when I was a child I would be a scientist — not so much an engineer. I got to college and got interested in economics. It seemed to me it could be a science.

Isn’t there an argument about whether economics is an art or a science?

That is the continuing conflict. Around 1900 the great British economist Alfred Marshall said, ‘Economics is not an exact science.’ [For] economists [who] try to be too much like real scientists there is a risk of being irrelevant.

There is abstract economic theory, which is nice but so much of the questions that we want to answer are relevant to our current situation. And

the current situation is a hodgepodge of laws, traditions, norms, companies, leaders and human psychology.

When did the idea that human psychology affects the economy take hold?

I did a paper, ‘From Efficient Markets to the Theory of Behavioral Finance,’ and I did a decade-by-decade analysis. In the 1950s economists started to get into survey data.

They started measuring confidence. In 1975 George Katona wrote a book called Psychological Economics. I was just starting out. In the ‘80s we thought we were really out on a limb [with the idea of the psychological dimension of economics]. There were people [who shared it] and they were tolerated. Then in the ‘90s it started taking off.

Was it because the science of human behavior became more advanced, or because some of the predictions got better?

I never could fathom academic trends. I think it was a reaction against the extreme that had taken hold of [what is called] the efficient markets theory. Which means you can’t make any money trading stocks because the market knows more than anyone. The ‘market’ is the amalgam of all the information, so when the market moves it

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The reaction is you can’t beat the market, because it is smarter than any one individual. Friedrich Hayek was a conservative economist in the 1940s.

He wrote a book, The Road to Serfdom. In it he emphasized and made [the case] that knowledge about important things is dispersed through everyone, [so] there is no way to centralize it.

There is no smart opinion that some smart guy somewhere has. When you meet these really smart guys, it is my experience, you are always disappointed [laughs].

So I should be disappointed, then?

You have to realize that when [experts] get on television and they’re interviewed — and I know this from personal experience — the interviewer is very careful to not ask questions that you don’t have a ready answer for. That’s their profession. So they [experts] seem smarter than they really are.

At a certain point you began to predict problems coming in the housing market.

What brought you to believe that, when that the consensus about the overall housing market was so different?

I’ve always had a cynical personality.

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I think he had a big impact; my mother did, too. Actually I approach economics like an engineer, I think.

Engineers have this attitude: ‘What is the problem? I’ll figure out how this really works and I’ll fix it.’

My father was not so impressed by talking heads. Engineers just want to get something done.

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You could get National Association of Realtors information [dating] back to the ‘60s, but they missed months. They weren’t really serious.

So this giant bellwether market wasn’t even being studied by economists?

This is another thing about herd behavior: academics all research the same thing. The stock market was just wonderful — there were thousands of articles about it — but I couldn’t find any articles about the housing market. [Studying housing markets] is not prestigious [like Wall Street] with JP Morgan and rich men. It is not something you wanted for your Ph.D. dissertation back then, [although] it has come around now. I found [Karl] ‘Chip’ Case at Wellesley College and we started writing papers about the housing market.

The funny thing is the housing market has so much momentum it goes in the same direction for years. I thought, How could this be? What I was taught in ‘efficient markets’ is that this can’t be. It’s too easy to make money. and then the smart money will come in and the profit opportunity will

disappear. [But the housing market] is different [from the stock market].

It is an amateur market, until now when it is becoming a professional market. But people were very slow to respond. There was an attitude that buying a house was like buying a car — ‘when you’re ready and it’s time,’ you buy the house. You don’t find people timing their car purchases to the market, and [also] home prices were not so volatile then.

But you stuck your neck out with this prediction.

I got into predicting home prices in the ‘90s through our company Case, Shiller, and we published every month in the Wall Street Journal.

They did a scorecard on us and we were pretty successful. It was so easy to forecast — they [home prices] just keep going up. We were forecasting the obvious. In 2005 I was on a town hall meeting on [cable channel] CNBC, where they brought [house] flippers and they brought me. [The flippers] were so confident they were going to be rich and they just dismissed me as this academic who doesn’t know anything. I could see how they were thinking — home prices were going up every year and they were going up faster and faster.

I remember in the early 2000s someone saying that the people who lived in Trumbull, Connecticut couldn’t afford to buy their own homes because prices had escalated so much.

I heard that the last time in Beijing, [where] someone said the average wages are really low and yet home prices there are like New York City.

I asked someone there who can buy these [homes] and they said, ‘We’re trying to figure that out. But there are some rich Chinese.

What about the role of demographics? A lot of residential inventory is big houses built by baby-boomers that became too expensive for their own children to buy.

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And it became a big project. It is hard to predict things unless you make a big project about finding out the truth. By writing a whole new edition of my book and putting housing into it, maybe that was the spirit that got me confident.

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Did that make you question your own judgment?

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‘The younger generation is so connected,’ observes Shiller. ‘They are like a new biological unit connected by electricity.’

‘Finance is science and it’s technology.

There is a mathematical theory. But underlying it is a lot of uncertainty as to how to apply it, so a lot of mistakes will be made.’

Where do you come down on the Federal Reserve and its intervention into the economy.

Didn’t you argue for a bigger stimulus from the federal government?

The risk was a great depression, but the biggest issue facing this country today is rising inequality.

It’s a trend, let’s not assume it is over. It’s probably due to new information technology and a more cosmopolitan world. Information technology is dangerous. I like to quote Norbert Weiner, one of the pioneers of computer science, he wrote a book called Cybernetics. At the end of his book, he said, ‘I don’t know which is more dangerous — the atomic bomb or the computer.’

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When we have federal spending doesn’t it find its way out of the country pretty quickly? Is that why the stimulus hasn’t been as effective as past efforts?

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Many who want to reform the tax code want to eliminate the mortgage deduction. Where do you come down?

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There is less cynicism about the business world, even though the Occupy Wall Street movement was hostile to it. There is a sense that one can make a difference and that it can be done through running an organization. Social entrepreneurship is stronger now than it was in the ‘80s. From the Vietnam years there was a sense of betrayal by [all] public institutions.

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At a certain point you went from being unknown to one of the media’s go-to guys on the economy. How did that affect you?

I got less cynical about newspeople. I learned it’s not all a show; nobody tells me what to say.

Even in China no one has ever told me what to say. Maybe they would just bleep me out there [laughs]. I’m awfully busy. My wife tells me to turn [media requests] down more and more. That’s the main thing. Having been on TV does create a certain amount of cynicism. I know how it feels to be asked some question on some national event: You feel various pressures, and worry about being inflammatory. There is [also] an incentive to show yourself as knowing everything, instead of saying ‘I don’t know.’

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ne recent afternoon, based solely on intuition, University of Connecticut freshman Ashley Gherlone pulled out her cell phone and dialed her twin sister Nicole. She had nothing in particular to tell her sister, but at the moment she called, Nicole was crying, homesick for their hometown of Orange and missing her sister as she began her freshman year at Elon University in North Carolina. It was an action they both look back on later as “one of those twin things” — par for the course to them, but an utter enigma to singletons.

The Gherlones were members of a 2012 Amity Regional High School graduating class that featured 13 sets of twins and one set of triplets.

The class attempted a Guinness World Record, but lost to a school in Des Moines, Iowa.

At Amity, the girls shared the same friends, played the same sports (soccer and golf) and

took the same classes. It wasn’t until they reached college age that their lives started to diverge in different directions and they began to understand what it really felt to have an identical twin.

that we’re good at different things. I like English and history. Nicole likes math and science. In high school, we tried to stay away from being in each other’s shadows all of the time — but still we were always together.”

“Being together all of the time when we were little, we were alike, but I was more of a take-charge leader and Nicole was more of a follower,” Ashley explains.

Though the girls are nearly identical in appearance, Nicole does not believe they are identical twins. “Being identical, that would be weird for me, knowing there is an exact copy of me in the world,” she says. The girls have not had a DNA test to determine their twin status.

The differences between them were always obvious to the twins themselves. Ashley preferred dark- or muted-color clothes, while Nicole favored bright colors. Ashley is a premed biology student; Nicole is concentrating on environmental studies.

“The difference in how we dress might be the biggest way we’re different,” Nicole jokes. “In high school, Ashley started to want to be her own person. She wanted the independence.”

“If someone were to ask me, Nicole’s one of my best friends — hands down — but we don’t talk every day,” Ashley acknowledges. “Sometimes we can go a week without talking, and we just pick right back up where we left off.

“I couldn’t imagine not having a twin,” she adds.

“As alike as we are, we are very competitive. We compare ourselves constantly to each other and it’s only as we’ve grown up [that] we’ve accepted

Biology aside, the two are close enough in appearance that people who don’t know them well confuse them for each other. With all of the fun they could have had playing pranks on the unknowing, the Gherlone twins admit to having played just one switcheroo — as fourth-graders, they switched classes for half a day. (Looking back, the girls are pretty sure the teachers were aware and they went along with the prank.)

There are subtle differences in appearance to those who know the twins well: Nicole’s face is slightly rounder and Ashley is slightly taller, but to the unknowing, the girls are a mirror image of each other.

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The same could be said for Trumbull twin sisters Judy Vig and Joy Paoletti. Even though their parents were told that the women were identical twins at birth, the women had their doubts. Though the differences in appearances are miniscule to others, they are striking to the twins, so glaring to each other that the sisters — in spite of being repeatedly assured by their parents that they were indeed identical twins — had a DNA test performed.

“Mom was so mad!” the sisters proclaim in unison, looking into each other’s matching dark brown eyes.

“An interesting fact that we learned from that is that since we do share the same DNA, that makes all of our [combined] seven kids halfbrothers and sisters,” Joy says.

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“When we were growing up, everyone wanted us to find our own identities, to separate and make our own friends,” Judy recalls. But the pair simply weren’t interested.

The sisters enjoyed each other’s company so much that there have been times they’ve felt all they need is each other.

On September 11, 2012, Judy was diagnosed with Stage II breast cancer after discovering a lump in her right breast. “The Cancer,” as they refer to it, had spread to the lymph nodes and Judy endured six months of chemotherapy and four months of radiation treatments.

“I didn’t believe it when I heard,” Joy recalls. Judy says she knew all along and wasn’t surprised with the diagnosis.

“I’m still not ready to deal with it. Do I have to deal with it?” Joy

asks. “Judy lost her confidence, so I had to step in and do some of the things that she could no longer do — like scheduling and arranging appointments. That used to be what Judy did.”

The stunning sisters have always been closely in tune with each other, constantly finishing each other sentences, thinking nothing of smoothing a piece of stray hair on each other. And they too have experienced a few of those “mystical twin moments.”

“I was sound asleep one night and I shot straight up in bed,” Joy recalls.

“I sat right up. It was 5 a.m. and I thought nothing of it, and went back to sleep.

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other got the bruise,” Nicole recalls.

That was kind of funny.”

Where Nicole Gherlone isn’t completely comfortable knowing there is a carbon copy of herself in her twin sister, Joy and Judy couldn’t be more at peace with knowing that they are simply extensions of each other. But as alike as they are, in some ways they’re complete opposites.

“Judy’s the Cool Whip and I’m the real whipped cream,” Joy jokes.

“Judy likes to get it done quickly, and I like to sit and simmer.

“That’s what makes us get along so well.”

v Matt and Zack Duhaime of Hamden look so much alike sometimes they fool even themselves.

Matt tells a story of a visit to a restaurant bathroom that left him feeling a little silly: “One wall in the bathroom was all mirrors, but I didn’t realize it was a mirror,” he recounts. “I walk out and see myself, and start waving, thinking it was Zack. I’m waving at myself in the mirror and a guy in the bathroom is looking at me like I’m strange. I walk up to the mirror, thinking I’m hitting Zack in the head and I hit the mirror.”

As similar and fun-natured as they are, the 18-year-olds confess to pulling just one prank — a switcheroo in classes at Hamden Middle School.

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“We switched one day in middle school and the first few periods was

fun, but then people started figuring it out and it went sour,” recalls Matt.

The twins dress similarly, share the same tastes in food and say they are attracted to the same types of girls.

They even have the same eyeglass prescription. They spend most of their days together and admit that even though they have two cars, they’re often together in one.

That will change in September, though, when Matt starts classes at Southern Connecticut State University, where he’ll study to become a nurse. Zack, who stayed back one year in school, has one more year at Hamden High School before he attends Western Connecticut State University to study meteorology. (He is part of WTNH-TV’s Weather Edge team and plans to pursue a career in the field.)

“My schedule for first semester has me in classes all afternoon and Zack is in classes all morning, so we’ll be separated for most of the day,” says Matt. When Zack goes to WestConn next year, that will be difficult.

“We can sit in the living room and just talk for two hours. It’s different than with other siblings — we know what we want to talk about,” Matt says. The twins have three stepbrothers and one step-sister, but no full biological siblings.

Zack agrees that the connection is strong between the brothers, “We finish each other’s sentences and we can tell if something’s up with each other.”

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“When I started dating my boyfriend, it was really important that my sister liked him and that he liked her and respected her,” Mea recalls. “We also introduce the guys that we’re dating to each other to make sure they get along. They have to like each other.”

football,” Lea explains. “But as long as they have a good heart, we like them.

One thing the sisters do not share is taste in men.

“When we get married,” says Lea, “our husbands are going to have two wives.”v

“[Mea] likes light-skinned men who play basketball and I like dark-skinned men who like

“I don’t know what we’re going to do when we get married,” she adds. “If we’re away from each other for more than two hours, we get depressed, nervous and even physically sick.”

It took the actual physical separation of college to make Nicole (left) and Ashley Gherlone to realize that they were inseparable.

v New Haven twins Lea and Mea Monroe have the same knack. “If I’m not around my sister and I randomly start feeling nervous or like something’s not right, I’ll call her and check on her. I can’t feel what she feels, but I can sense when something’s going on,” Lea says.

“People ask me all the time how it feels to be a twin, but I can’t tell them because being a twin is all I know,” she says. “Mea and I are inseparable and I blame it on my mom. We’re 23 years old and we finally just got our own bedrooms!” she jokes.

The young women recently moved into their own apartment and though they have their own bedrooms now, they haven’t stopped dressing alike.

“We’ll go into a store and we’ll separate and meet back up at the register and we’ll have the exact same things,” Lea says.

“We’re just one person, split in half,” Lea says.

“She got the aggressive gene and I got the goofy gene.” The pair even share the same job, working as waitresses at the Texas Roadhouse in West Haven, where they admit to having fun tricking customers.

“I don’t know how people get us confused, we look completely different to me,” asserts Mea. “I can see the resemblances, but when people say we’re mirror image, I don’t see it.”

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It is the motivation beyond the numbers that counts.

Sometimes it takes a little bit more to stand out.

“I think a lot of parents and students are trying to figure out what colleges are looking for in a particular student,” explains Nilvio Perez, director of admissions for Albertus Magnus College in New Haven. “The typical part about that is from our end we don’t know what we’re looking for until a couple months before the application process begins.”

Perez explains universities might have a shortage of students for a particular department one year, or other departments may not have as many students admitted, so they have to consider factors like where students are coming from, as well as ethnic, racial and even geographic diversity.

So, what exactly are colleges and independent secondary schools looking for?

“We’re really looking beyond the numbers,” says Perez. “We really want to get to know the student.”

qualities — though it’s often hard to find them all in an eighth or ninth grader! — maturity, motivation, confidence, creativity responsibility, sense of humor.”

According to Terrence Greaves, associate director of admissions for the University of New Haven, “We look at their track record. Is there a trend here?”

He adds: “We look more globally at non-cognitive factors in each student’s application such as self efficacy, motivation, locus of control, creativity and a student’s practical skills or judgment.”

A student who is “involved” has always been considered an attractive candidate. Same goes with the student who seizes “initiative.” But the misconception seems to be that a student has to join multiple clubs, or become president of the National Honor Society, to impress an admissions committee.

These are all worthy, but not alone deal-makers/breakers.

Janet B. Izzo, director of admissions for Hamden Hall Country Day School (preschool-12), says that beyond academics, the most important quality a student should exude is enthusiasm and openness about trying new things, both academic and extracurricular.

“I’d like to see less emphasis on putting together that portfolio of appropriate activities, to letting the high school student try new things,” says Joan Isaac Mohr, vice president for admissions and financial aid at Quinnipiac University in Hamden. “To say there’s a magic formula about what kind of activities they should join, or when, or ‘Should they be president of this club or captain of that team?’ is a myth. They are developing as human beings, not crafting a résumé.”

She says Hamden Hall loves applicants who are already “truly invested” in the arts, community service or athletics — but adds that those are not prerequisites for admission to the school. While the school’s admissions department values motivation and commitment, it recognizes the reality that younger students may not have had experience in “every facet of school life.”

Some prospective students may question the value of leadership versus being “well-rounded.”

She adds Quinnipiac hopes a student has enjoyed high school and not spent his or her time “scheming” about how to wow a college admissions committee.

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Ruth Teague, director of admissions at Chase Collegiate School (preschool-12) in Waterbury, says her institution definitely looks for students with leadership potential who will thrive in the school community. “At the core of Chase’s 150-year history is a culture of leadership,” she asserts.

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“The leadership position is vital,” adds Perez. “I think someone who has been entrusted by their peers or administrators is something that colleges want.”

Perez says he would likely lean toward admitting a student who is in fewer clubs, but is a leader in those clubs.

The reasoning is that the student’s leadership role might prevent her or him from being able to invest in multiple additional activities.

“Most offices are sophisticated enough to see that on paper,” he adds.

Pasquale Izzo, director of admissions at Notre Dame High School in West Haven, says he thinks leadership and motivation are important factors that contribute toward academic excellence. Nevertheless, he recognizes that his school’s applicants are still young. His school’s admissions committee mainly want to see students who are motivated.

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Pamela McKenna, director of admission at New Haven’s Hopkins School, agrees while her institution appreciates and values an applicant who holds a leadership position at a young age, if the opportunities have not presented themselves to a student, it is not a detriment to his or her application.

“If anything is to tip the scales among many qualified students,” says Choate’s Diffley, “[it is] motivation and genuine interest in the school they are pursuing.”

Diffley adds that Choate is looking for collaborative students who harbor, and express, opinions on many topics; leadership does not have to come with a title, especially with regard to middle-schoolers. He says Choate tends to look for potential, as

opposed to actual experience.

While the above qualities are valued, passion seems to be a dominating characteristic. Counselors agree if a student simply shows focus, passion or drive in a particular area of interest, that will be a determinant for success at the school.

Greaves says both passion and a well-rounded background have merit, though he would usually prefer the person who seems to be “really passionate” and shows more motivation and drive to accomplish something noteworthy, such as an internship during high school.

He adds that extracurriculars can be “borderline” when it comes to selecting final applicants who may have comparable academic credentials.

v Extracurriculars in school are not the only activities that can demonstrate a commitment beyond academics. “[The students] can work part time, which helps develop responsibility and work-ethic,” says Mohr. “Some students need to take care of younger siblings, or are very involved in religious activities outside their school community.”

AMC’s Perez says he would argue that babysitting a sibling can be a pivotal extracurricular because it indicates that the student is working and learning how to navigate through an employment setting.

Alexis Haakonsen, director of admissions for Southern Connecticut State University, says it is important for students to challenge themselves, as well as demonstrate consistency. If an admissions officer sees students have worked hard and are passionate in what they are involved in, rather than if they are participating in X number of activities, that is more important. She adds what is right for one student may not be right for another.

“They don’t have to be captain of the football team to get those skills that will be beneficial,” says Haakonsen.

Notre Dame’s Izzo agrees that while extracurriculars can help applicants to stand out from the pack, it cannot make or break their admission because some schools do not offer those opportunities.

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the Albertus admissions committee looks for in the selection process, extracurriculars are really supplements to the core of the academic profile. He says he would prefer a student taking three to five extracurriculars and being truly involved in them, then writing about how those experiences helped to shaped them.

Diffley says students often mistakenly feel they need to fill up an activity sheet. Choate recognizes that one student may not have had all the opportunities others have had. Choate wants to see “genuine enthusiasm” for opportunities and a record of taking advantage of what has been offered to them, even though some experiences may have been limited.

“Extracurricular is an add-on, and I think sometimes students lose that feeling,” Perez says. “It’s really the quality and not the quantity.”

He adds that a B-minus student who is well-rounded and involved will probably be more desirable than the A student who is involved in little outside the classroom.

All agree it is a student’s passion that should be evident in the application — a demonstration of interest, dedication and capability to excel in something he or she loves.

Hopkins’ McKenna says any extracurricular that a student finds interesting and engaging that they can speak about with enthusiasm is beneficial.

“This desire to explore all aspects of an applicant’s character to uncover intangible qualities that lead to academic success is going to be an important aspect to our work in the future,” she explains.

Chase’s Teague says her school believes it is better for a student to master an activity, which builds confidence to try other activities, rather than to participate in a “laundry list of things.” She says Chase likes to acknowledge a student’s focused passion, which often results in leadership activity.

The school explicitly values “courage, confidence, compassion.”

All agree while there is no single category of activity that is necessarily valuable to a school, it is universally beneficial to see community service in an applicant’s background as well.

Perez says he thinks service organizations are appealing because typically students do not perform service activities at their schools, so the young person must be demonstrably invested in showing up at the site. He adds that those sort of activities are impressive because it can be a humbling

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Greaves says one of the foundations of UNH is to give back to the community, so community service is another element he and his colleagues look for.

All conclude that there are key dimensions beyond academics that students can contribute to their schools — experiences and interests that are embedded in the student’s character and goals — not simply what they bring to the classroom.

Students should keep in mind that if they focus on pursuing what interests them, their abilities and drive will be evident in their portfolios.

Notre Dame’s Izzo urges students: “Don’t be a 7:44-to-2:10 student,” referring to the start and end times of the Notre Dame school day. He encourages students to participate in those enriching activities beyond the classroom which add structure to their day and contribute to their character.

Concludes Mohr: “That’s what college is all about — taking that foundation from high school and building on it as you shape your academic interests, plan your career path, and get involved in individual and team efforts to establish yourself in your local, national and international community.” v

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ith so many country fairs and festivals on tap throughout the region this season, area residents and visitors will have many opportunities to wind up the summer with some stimulating (and inexpensive) fun.

From Guilford to Durham, from North Haven to Milford, organizers are busy preparing for events that include everything from oxen pulls to art exhibitions. While many are traditional New England-style agricultural fairs, others are geared to feature art, beer and wine — one even showcases antique fire apparatus.

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A traditional agricultural good especially for the person this one idea, features old-fashioned funolder with pony and oxwho drawing, livesa women’s alone. skillet-toss competition and the ever popular pie-eating contest.

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This fair also includes an area known as Old Connecticut eldercare Solutions, LLC in McDonald’s Farm, where children and adults are Woodbridge. encouraged to get acquainted with the animals.

Along ferreting to says.

“We’ll havewith our baby chicksout andresources pigs,” Vincent assist their parents, adult children are “There’s always a lot to see there.” grappling with “all the psychological

Like most country fairs, the idea is to have issues around watching a parent become wholesome fun and be entertained. If the lineup and seeing theirwill mortality of more talent disabled is any indication, fair-goers have no become apparent,” adds problem accomplishing both. Kaplan. “Losing

a parent is probably one of the most

Scheduled musical performers include Bad challenging tasks adulthood. It’s Mannerz, Cash Is King,of the exquisitely painful on Truckstop Troubadors, Luckya primal level. It’s Bob Prop Comic, Vinnie Carr & the Party Band,

tremendous amount of stress, and Tyler Farr, the Navels, will Comedy Magicmore with the kids’ problems become Danny Diamond, the tribute band Flashback and magnified at times like this.”

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Situations can be even more complicated

“We were really lucky to aren’t get Tyler says when adult children inFarr,” the same Vincent. “He’s not community or state as their parents. playing any place Kaplan describes else around here.” a current case where she

is working with six siblings living “all

In the early days, over the country” to coordinate the care the fair was held of an their 95-year-old mother, who wants to in open field on remain atVincent home.

Broadway, recounts.

Because Family dynamics are an integral part of the event soon the picture. Adult siblings are “often not outgrew that space, in 1946 the Fair Association on the same page”parcel because of different purchased a 52-acre on Washington Avenue. experiences their parents,” When I-91 waswith constructed during thesays 1960s and subsumed half also the parking organizers did some Kaplan, who offerslot, therapy for clients. nifty rearranging, ponycan trotting track, “There’s just soadding muchayou do. Dignity modern restrooms a couple of new buildings. and comfort and and safety and quality of life

can be economically challenging.”

Vincent says she particularly enjoys seeing all the exhibit entries. While she is well acquainted with even if parents or their adult children can how much effort it takes to stage the event, she is afford appreciative help with private or long-term equally of all thepay efforts of those who care insurance, such themselves. arrangements “need provide the attractions

and non-crisis,” says elder law attorney Whitney Lewendon of Coan, Lewendon, Gulliver & miltenberger, LLC in New Haven. Lewendon sometimes works with children in their 20s, whose parents die unexpectedly or have an early-onset illness. “It’s more common for me to hear from people in their 40s or 50s about parents who are in their 70s or 80s,” he says, adding he also has clients in their 90s.

“If I’m called by an adult child who wants a consult with the parents, it’s my practice to meet the parents privately. If the parents are incapacitated and we’re doing work to help the parent, then the work is with the child. If there’s a grey area, when the parents feel they’re still in charge but there’s some question, then I make it clear that I’m counseling the parents.”

Sometimes the adult children already have been talking with parents about doing some legal planning as their circumstances supervision and don’t always work,” notes “People put in a lot of work canning, baking a cake, are changing.

Kaplan. the pies — it’s very time-consuming and they work very hard at it,” Vincent says. “The people who

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Vincent also praises the volunteers who serve as judges and work the various event venues.

“The more involved I got with it the more I realized what goes into it,” she explains. Vincent adds that she enjoys the enthusiasm of the youngsters who enter their baked goods or collections and come in after the fair to collect their prize money.

“The kids are cute,” Vincent says.

“They’re all excited when they get their ribbon and prize money.”

Admission is $10 for adults (free for 12 and under). Fair hours are from 5 to 10 p.m. September 5; 3 to 11 p.m. September 6; 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.

September 7; and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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The World Is Your Oyster In Milford, where public festivities are scheduled nearly every weekend through September, things get off to a rousing start on August 16 when Oyster Eve marks the beginning of the annual Milford Oyster Festival as well as the kickoff for Open Doors & More: Art You Can Live With, for which area artists have repurposed doors, windows, benches and what have you into one-of-a-kind pieces of art.

“This is a wonderful example of keeping art alive,” explains Priscilla Lynn, executive director of the Downtown Milford Business NEWHAVENMAGAZINE.COM

Association, which presents the event in tandem with the Milford Fine Arts Council.

While the Oyster Festival in 2013 marks its 39th year, Open Doors & More takes place biennially.

This year marks its fifth presentation.

“We always do it on Oyster Eve because the Oyster Festival Committee works with us and there are more people downtown looking around and enjoying the festivities,” explains Rosemary Celon-Gordon, proprietress of the Gilded Lily, where many of the artworks are on view.

A juried show, Open Doors & More features three dozen artists. It is conducted as a walking tour with the art displayed throughout downtown at sundry shops. On September 15 the art works will be auctioned beginning at 5 p.m. at the Milford Fine Arts Center, 40 Railroad Avenue.

For the Oyster Festival itself, organizers bring in 20,000 oysters from the East Coast Growers’ Association, as well as countless vendors and craftsmen who will display their wares on the Milford town green from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. August 17. There’s ample live entertainment in addition to canoe and kayak races at Lisman Landing.

August 24 will feature a free guided tour of all the venues displaying the artwork. Reservations (a must) can be made by phoning 203-878-7007.

Let Me Stand Next to Your Fire (Truck) On September 7 the 42 annual Antique Fire Apparatus Show & Muster will take place in Milford. An event whose complexity defies its free admission, the muster draws between 3,500 and 4,000 attendees each year. nd

Sponsored by Milford Engine Co. No. 260, the event draws antique fire apparatus from all over New England for an extensive motorcade that starts at Liberty Rock Shopping Center and wends its way through the center of town before ending up at Eisenhower Park for the main event.

“It’s very colorful,” explains George Ambriscoe, a volunteer who has helped organize the event for years. “We get a lot of people watching from the sides of the roads.”

Many sightseers attend the muster not only to see and hear firefighters, but to actually become a first responder for a day. A plethora of games allow participants to climb ladders, be part of a bucket brigade and participate as a part of a team

responding to a midnight alarm.

“We’ve got competition events all geared toward what they would have had years ago,” Ambriscoe says. “There’s an old-time tug-of-war that’s usually done on the beach area and there’s a waterball contest.”

The latter involves a barrel mounted to a cable with teams on each side that try to force the barrel in opposite directions. According to Ambriscoe, hilarity ensues.

There is also a fire-themed flea market featuring antiques, T-shirts and sundry, along with food booths offering every fare under the sun.

“And there’s also a hose contest where they have to knock down two targets on the end of the arena, bowling pins mounted on top of a pole,” Ambriscoe adds.

Trophies are awarded for the ‘best of’ numerous categories. The event takes place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free. Attendees pay only for whatever food they purchase. Proceeds benefit the Milford Recreation Department’s Camp Happiness.

“This is the largest show on the East Coast of this type,” Ambriscoe says.

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Animal Magnetism Way back in the fall of 1858 several farmers sat around a wood stove inside a general store in Guilford.

They were all quite proud of their livestock and it didn’t take long for someone to suggest they should all bring animals to the center of town once a year to show them off.

That was the genesis of the annual Guilford Agricultural Fair. In September 1859 farmers brought 426 yoke of oxen from Guilford, Madison and North Branford to the Guilford Town Green. That was the original parade and over the years the event has evolved to include marching bands, floats and everything else imaginable.

Similar to their North Haven counterparts, event organizers in Guilford also saw the need for larger

quarters and purchased a parcel on Lovers Lane, on which they still have a mortgage.

“This year [event organizers] bought two Mennonite-made barns, postand-beam, but kind of like a pavilion and they’ll be used for exhibits during the fair,” explains Barbara Puffer, a volunteer who works to promote the annual event that takes place the third full weekend in September.

This year’s event is slated for September 20-22.

With only two exceptions (the year of a crippling storm and a war), the Guilford Fair has taken place annually without interruption since 1859.

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Puffer, who has been involved with the fair for many years, is genuine with her praise for families who have participated in the event for generations — much to the delight of the 25,000 spectators who come every year.

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The entertainment lineup includes the Flying Wallendas, Nerveless Nocks and David Garrity & his Illusionquest along with tractor and oxen pulls and working animal competitions.

Puffer believes an attractive lineup of entertainment helps draw attendees from hither and yon.

“We’ll also have an act called the human cannonball,” Kalbfeld says.

“I’ve never seen it, so we’ll see what it is. And we always have the Guilford Fair Family Circus. It’s really good family entertainment.”

“By adding entertainment it makes it more of an active family event and it has brought us people who might not have come to see the

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In addition to nightly concerts (all included in the price of admission), attractions include a Saturdaymorning parade that is the latter-day tribute to the 1859 parade of the animals.

“It’s a bargain — once you’re admitted to the fair it’s all free,” says Larry Kalbfeld, a volunteer who organizes the entertainment.

“And we have the annual citizen’s day parade that goes around the center of town and down to the fairgrounds,” he adds. “A lot of the festivities start when the

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With an agreeable mix of plants, photography, canning and handcrafted items, the fair also includes a full lineup of entertainment including country star Josh Turner, who will headline Saturday night.

“I’m getting e-mails from people from New York who are traveling just to see him in concert,” says Huscher.. “We have three different stages and we’ll have entertainment throughout [Saturday].”

New this year is the addition of the Connecticut Wine Festival on the Town Green.

“We’ve always been a dry fair,” Huscher says. “So this is strictly a sampling event. And we do have cows, pigs, rabbits, chickens and everything else. It is big.”

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On Saturday, September 28, Milford’s Fowler Field will spring to life from noon to 9 p.m. for Devon Rotary’s annual Octoberfest celebration.

Sponsored by Milford Bank, the event has taken place every year for the last quarter-century. With German bands, German dancing and countless beers on tap, Octoberfest promises a fun time for a mere $10 admission fee.

“We’ve got a little something for everybody,” says Scott Moulton, event chairman and past president of the Devon Rotary. “We’ve got some craft beers and a lot o f your standard big-name beers.

We want people to just come out and have fun.”

The event also features an a la carte food court and a children’s area with activities geared toward youngsters. Last year’s event attracted some 1,200 people; this year organizers are aiming to host 1,500, Moulton says.

All proceeds benefit the Rotary Club’s scholarship fund.

Newer & Notable From 6 to 9 p.m. on Saturday, October 5, the annual Downtown Milford Wine Trail will open for business, featuring 14 retailers where wine and food from area restaurants will be available for sampling.

Tickets to the event, presented by the Downtown Milford Business Association, are $40 and are available at Villa Gourmet, 11 Broad Street. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Boys & Girls Club and the Milford Historical Society. To learn more visit downtownmilfordct.org.

On October 5-6, the Friends of Hammonasset will present the fifth annual Hammonasset Festival Celebrating Nature & Native America.

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This event coincides with the centennial celebration of state parks in Connecticut, according to Susie Capezzone, publicist for the event.

“It’s all geared toward America and nature,” she explains.

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A VERY FAIR HAVEN A power couple roost richly in the ‘Brooklyn of New Haven’

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They can also become a tapestry knit by streetscapes In just such a woven community, Fair Haven, there is an abiding presence of the old fusion of hearth and workplace that defined much of America’s urban landscape before the post-World War II explosion of federal highwaygoosed suburbia. Fair Haven is as distinctive a neighborhood as can be found in New England.

While Fair Haven wasn’t really even a geographically definable place until a bridge was built across the Quinnipiac River in 1785, it quickly became a bustling fishing village where oystermen and others who made their living on and from the river and sea created a hometown along the river.

As the population grew, Fair Haven finally became part of New Haven in 1870 after seceding for a time. Once the oyster beds began to dry up, farming and fishing became less important than support for the thousands of workers and immigrants who came to toil in New Haven’s factories.

As New Haven was whipsawn by Mayor Richard Lee’s “urban renewal” in the mid-20th century, the distinctiveness of Fair Haven’s character was recognized in 1978 when a historic district was created, documenting the many existing buildings that a more vital economy would see removed for new development. In these years Fair Haven experienced the ebbs and flows of disparate populations and wildly volatile real estate values

as white flight created blight and alternatively gentrification pumped up hope for renewal, crashing back down to earth in the early 1990s.

But a new generation of urban colonists have nurtured a renewed appreciation for the essential vitality of this fishing village and are investing time and sweat equity to homestead in a place that has as much potential as history. Donna Curran and Patrick McCaughey are just such homesteaders.

Often the term “power couple” comes off as sound-bite stupid, but Curran’s and McCaughey’s careers have had a high profile in Connecticut for decades. Curran and chef Denise Appel cofounded one of New Haven’s zestiest and most attractive restaurants, Zinc, and its offspring, Kitchen Zinc. Both eateries marry localvore innovation with rare value and gastronomic delight. They have become one of the Elm City’s few go-to places to eat that never disappoint.

Similarly, Patrick McCaughey has headed two Connecticut cultural meccas that never disappoint their visitors: Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum, and the Yale Center for British Art. He is an extraordinary writer as well, having earned worldwide renown with both memoir and artfocused tracts. Of a man who emigrated from Down Under to take the Wadsworth job in 1988, a Brisbane newspaper once referred to McCaughey as “the bowtie-wearing libertine of the arts.”

Committed in their careers to urban amenity, it’s hardly surprising that this couple sought an exciting venue from which to write and cook. And the Ames House — built around 1840 on the east bank of the river, nestled close to Quinnipiac Avenue, safely lofted above the riverbanks close to Quinnipiac Avenue, with a lovely full yard dropping down to the water — fully fit the bill of a urban setting with undeniable natural and historic amenities.

Not surprisingly, McCaughey had performed ample due diligence on the property.

“An 1868 plan of Fair Haven shows the house to be standing in its present block, designated as the J. Ames House,” he explained in an e-mail.

“We found his tombstone in the shrubbery with the touching if unmetrical epitaph: And though the past I never can forget/Through God’s kind love formed me/I am not of all bereft. The present house, however, dates from much later.

“It’s in the vernacular Greek Revival style which prevails throughout Fair Haven with a pedimented front gable and a doorway of modest pilasters and lintel,” McCaughey added. “Nothing fancy: it was an oysterman’s house and the remnant of his jetty [is] still apparent in the river at the end of the garden. The basement of the house would almost certainly have been his working area now converted into a study.”

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Also not surprising was that this classic Fair Haven home had been partially restored by the previous generations of Fair Haven homesteaders.

A double-decker porch — added on at least 20 years ago across the river-facing rear of the structure, complete with river-accessing stairs — was in relatively good shape. The previous homeowners had performed the full mechanical Monty — fixing the dug-into-the-riverbank leaks of the lower level and doing the electric, plumbing and HVAC work that made the investment less risky for Curran and McCaughey.

But the interior had just been whitewashed, and several small rooms (perfect for 19th-century coal stove heating but utterly undesirable for 21st-century living) separated the main living space from the reason McCaughey and Curran bought the house in the first place: the river. With design help from Ed Bottomley of the New Haven interior-design firm of Cama Inc. and the resolute work of William Hesbach, a contractor who specializes in historic renovations, the first floor was opened up — preserving the stairwell and adding built-ins to the street-side walls.

But the jewel in the crown of all this effort is an exceptional kitchen, crafted by woodworker Anthony Errichetti. Cherry, stone and stainless steel commend a corner of the home, fully bathed in a window wall that captures the panoramic view and infuses the entire interior with a filtered natural light. That light flows because of the surgically removed interior walls, so carefully executed that the flow seems natural and timeless, as trim and flooring are continuous and unbroken 38 A ugust/S eptember 2013

unifying the combined spaces.

While the kitchen is the oculus of light and view through the porch, the light it lets into the first floor fully loves the home’s other star attraction: the artwork the couple has collected over their lifetimes, curated (of course) by McCaughey.

Large, small, painted, printed and drawn, the walls are alive with agreeably illuminated art that both complements the spaces and surprises the visitor who meanders through.

The landscape and driveway access has been reconfigured under the careful hand of Fair Haven entrepreneur Chris Ozick, a neighbor from across the street who has put his own home where is civic values are. Patrick recounts that Ozick used “river grasses and the ubiquitous local varieties of flowers and shrubs — hydrangea, shasta daisies, trumpet and day lilies and so forth. We have retained an aged and lavishly spreading mulberry tree at the end of the garden which provides some welcome shade from the western sun, which descends on the rear of the house.”

As is true for all owners of antique houses, the work of revivification and renewal never ends.

Although previous owners had already opened up the upstairs master bedroom above the now open rive- facing first floor, it has yet to be finished to the ground floor’s level of polish.

New siding will soon replace the 1920s-era cast “shingles” that groan under the overcoating of scores of paint jobs.

But in the end, Fair Haven’s unique characteristics are the starting and ending point for Donna

Curran and Patrick McCaughey. As the latter puts it: “The wide view of the river and the pleasantly active river scene as Norman Bloom’s oyster boats pull out from a dock neighboring the property or the Fair Haven lobster fleet ply their way down to the Sound” can now be appreciated by everyone cooking and eating — a sensibility doubtless enhanced by Curran’s efforts to make the ambiance of Zinc’s interior visually distinctive.

As you might guess, McCaughey’s words encapsulate why anyone would want to inhabit this rebuilding fishing village: “The location of the house took us by storm,” he writes. “Except in summer when the foliage is too dense, you can see 180 degrees up and down the Quinnipiac River from the Grand Avenue Bridge to the Ferry Street Bridge. We love the romanticism of the oysterman’s boats wheeling and turning at the end of our garden. When they return like a boat parade in the evening, it’s like living in a Newlyn School painting. Yet we are just ten minutes from downtown New Haven by car and 20 minutes if you catch the regular bus service down Grand Avenue.”

As one prominent Realtor remarked to us recently: “Fair Haven could be the Brooklyn of New Haven.”

If so, where are all the novelists? We walk freely around the neighborhood on both sides of the river and find it safe, secure and friendly.

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New Haven Museum unveils the Wooster Square few knew — until now

’Benedict Arnold House’ by Thomas Royale Waite, watercolor, c. 1895. Built in 1769 on Water Street (which was then on waterfront), this handsome home reflected Arnold’s status as a successful apothecary, West Indies merchant and ship owner. Probably few shed a tear when the former homestead of the notorious traitor was razed in 1917. From the exhibition, Beyond the New Township: Wooster Square, on view at the New Haven Museum.

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Beyond the New Township: Wooster Square, curated

by Elizabeth Pratt Fox and William Frank Mitchell.

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‘Packing Watches at the New Haven Clock Company.’ New Haven Clock Co. Papers, photograph, c. 1910. Collection of the New Haven Museum.

id you know that a major American piano manufacturer was based in New Haven? Or that Water Street was once actually on the harbor front? Or that Wooster Square’s first inhabitants were not (as many assume) Italian immigrants?

Those are just some of the revelations in store for New Haven Museum (NHM) visitors when they take in the exhibition Beyond the Township: Wooster Square, on view through the end of next February.

It’s a tour de force that’s sweeping in scope and a clear triumph for NHM Executive Director Margaret Anne Tockarshewsky, who was tasked with creating the show out of whole cloth when she arrived in the Elm City in February 2012.

And considering that the subject matter is history, there’s plenty here that will make a tech-geek millennial feel right at home, including use of iPads, HDTV screen images and QR codes — all in the service of an exhibition that employs “what may be the most extensive use of the New Haven Museum’s collections to date,” says Tockarshewsky.

And how. The exhibition occupies nearly every square inch of the museum’s neoclassical Whitney Avenue quarters. But perhaps even more impressive that the scale is the span of the more than 200 artworks and objects on view — items as disparate as a 19th-century “cymbella” organ,

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Any New Havener with even a modest interest in the city’s heritage might wish to spend days perusing the NHM galleries for treasures great and small — from torturous steel-spring corsets manufactured

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that still exists today). But they also include successive waves of Irish and Scots, Lithuanians, Poles, Swedes, French-Canadians and others who came here to work in factories and construction in the bustling city-within-a-city named after a Revolutionary War hero (David Wooster).

Every New Havener knows that the city was organized around a grid of nine “squares” in the 17th century.

To the east of those nine squares radiating off the Green grew the “New Township” in the early days of the 19th century. As the upper and lower Green remain at the center of community life in New Haven, Wooster Square developed as the “Green” of the New Township.

v In subsequent years the definition of Wooster Square has evolved with the changing landscape of the city itself. Where David Wooster once lived stands a bakery. Water Street once marked the edge of New Haven Harbor, and St. John Street began as a “ropewalk” serving the local maritime community. (The museum’s two-story rotunda houses NEWHAVENMAGAZINE.COM

a map illustrating the ever-changing boundaries of Wooster Square from Revolutionary times to today.)

“One of our goals was to challenge visitors to ponder the question: Where is Wooster Square?,” explains Tockarshewsky. “They’ll see how planners carved out the boundaries of the neighborhood versus how the area’s residents identified themselves and their neighborhood by the block where they grew up or worked.

“They’ll also see how dramatically the topography changed with the growth of industry and construction of highways, as waterfront areas were in-filled,” she adds.

The neighborhood grew up at the center of New Haven’s rail and shipping industries. On its periphery were major manufacturing companies including Candee Rubber Co. (boots) and the New Haven Clock Co. in addition to such mainstays as Sargent and C. Cowles (carriage parts).

Around the public square titans of industry commissioned grand homes designed by the city’s premier architects — chief among them Henry Austin (1804-91) — while factory workers settled in dwellings alongside streets en route to the factories.

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In the 20th century, the Great Depression accelerated Wooster Square’s decline into New Haven’s third-largest slum area, making it ripe for redevelopment by the city’s well-intentioned but short-sighted urban planners who targeted the area for highway construction during the 1950s and ‘60s. Efforts to save the neighborhood, including its fabled square and significant architecture, rallied preservationists with the New Haven Preservation Trust into assuming a leadership role. This led to Wooster Square’s designation as the city’s first local historic district in 1970, and listing in the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

Beyond the New Township is the third in a series of neighborhood exhibitions mounted by the New Haven Museum. It was preceded by 2009’s East Shore Reflections and The Hill: New Haven’s First Suburb two years later.

Explains Tockarshewsky: “With its architectural legacy, pervasive feeling of community, preservation spirit and storied resiliency in the face of urban renewal, annual Cherry Blossom Festival, Columbus Day celebration, and daily celebration of Italian heritage in its eateries, businesses, festivals and religious processions, Wooster Square was as an exciting choice for our third neighborhood show.”

Obviously, the third time’s the charm.

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Twenty more students either act as reporters or do promotions for the station as well.

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The Internet? Well, not so fast. Radio is still out there, and in an almost constantly evolving music and media landscape, it’s simply finding its new place in the media mix.

students, with another 40 students having shows on the station’s online-only Charger Radio stream, which affords some leeway from Federal Communications Commission (FCC) guidelines.

“Part of what I do is breaking down the walls and getting students involved again,” explains Lane, who is also a UNH faculty member who teaches audio for radio and media, as well as TV production. “For years this was not treated like a ‘campus radio station.’ There was a 20-year gap in the mid-‘80s and middle of last decade where no students took part.”

v Tony Bonetti was one student involved just before that downward trajectory. A communications student who graduated in 1983, Bonetti is now assistant manager of Sports & Partnerships at Subway, one of three UNH alums to work for that company, including Chief Development Officer Don Fertman, himself an early WNHU deejay.

Bonetti started in the fall of 1979 as a play-by-play sports reporter who later hosted an alternative music show.

“The whole experience was awesome; I remember the hockey and soccer playoff games that really [drove] the blood pressure up,” recalls Bonetti, who was station manager during his senior year. “And learning about new artists that you wouldn’t hear on stations like ‘PLR at time.

It was fun, it was current, and new.”

This couldn’t be any more true for college radio — for years, the last bastion of independent, under-the-radar music and passionate, opinionated coverage of local goings-on.

Bonetti was there to observe student interest wane in the mid-‘80s, around the time the station moved from its original location in Bartels Hall to its current location in the basement of Maxcy Hall.

WNHU (88.7 FM), the campus radio station at the University of New Haven, is one of the few of its kind in the region. Quinnipiac University’s WQUN is an AM station (1220 kHz), and Sacred Heart University’s WSHU (91.1 FM) is a National Public Radio affiliate. This year WNHU celebrates its 40th anniversary while preparing to move to its own new digs just off campus this fall.

The on-air deejays have, however, built up steady local followings in the community. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that students are listening. Lane says ratings currently show that of the nearly 10,000 listeners, virtually none are under age 24, which rules out UNH students, who have plenty of other options for Internet radio or streaming and who may not be listening when Arbitron is listening.

But with the endless options for streaming music afforded to anyone with a computer (let alone a young student population with irregular schedules who mostly don’t listen to the radio anyway), WNHU has had its share of renewed growing pains.

“We’re here when the students move in, and the parents are excited about the radio station, but how do I encourage the kids to listen again if the first time they tune in they hear a Slavic show, or something they would never listen to?”

Lane says.

General Manager Bryan Lane has headed the station for the past four and a half years, having joined the station at a time of minimal student involvement: only four were on the air at the time, with most of the station’s deejays being non-students. These days Lane has worked to boost student involvement by increasing exposure of the station, including measures such as having broadcasts from various locations around campus and finding time to fit more new music on the air.

For his part, Lane has often shifted shows around in the schedule, putting pop shows, new music, and talk shows on at what he views as optimum times of day.

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Former music and sound recording student Zack Rosen was on the air at WNHU for his entire undergrad career from 2006-10, when he hosted his own music show, helped to create a news-talk show, and produced sundry station promos and commercials.

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the music format and getting more students involved,” Rosen says. “WNHU came across like it was community radio. There are a lot of shows with very specific audiences.”

Lane says that when the station holds its yearly fundraising drive, about three-quarters of the money raised comes from listeners of the station’s sundry ethnic-music programs. WNHU raises roughly $22,000 per year through donations, with $5,000 coming from the university for such capital expenses as equipment purchases.

v The CD players certainly aren’t getting as much use these days — nearly all of the station’s program hosts plug their computers into the soundboards rather than use physical media. The station doesn’t even have a music library any more: A massive CD sale in 2010 helped purge all that was left at the time. Lane says at least half of the extant promo albums sent from record labels are in digital form.

WNHU’s new home will be a structure adjacent to campus at the corner of Cook Avenue and Ruden Street, and will be outfitted with new equipment, making for a fairly painless move.

The push for a new place came out of having less and less space to have bands and guests in the studio, not to mention to escape the confines of the basement environs.

“It’s right next to campus, and we’re going to build a patio out back with an awning to have live shows. It’s going to be a really cool place,” Lane says.

Sophomore communications student Eric Neilson has created a YouTube channel for the station, with plans to post videos of visiting artists and performances. He says he’d eventually like to tape around New Haven to “promote the station and get our name out there.”

Undated photo of WNHU air staff including deejay, Don Fertman (left), today chief development officer for Subway International.

Lane asserts that the skills learned in radio are invaluable to anyone in the communications field.

Bonetti himself credits his time at WNHU as a solid primer for life beyond college.

“It was the ultimate four-year life experience, about the business and working in the real world, interacting with people,” Bonetti says. “You learn to put your ego aside for the common good.” He observes that “Sometimes you have to be a bad guy and make decisions about things that aren’t going to make people happy.”

While the station’s official 40th anniversary took place in early June — with old deejays welcomed back on the air during the day air shifts — a bigger event is planned for the UNH’s annual

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Lane hopes the station will at some point be able to rely less on phone-a-thon donations for operating expenses and more through events or donors. But the biggest challenge lies in attracting listeners.

“Most community stations are going to fight [based on the argument] that their audience is getting older.,” Rosen says. “But that’s the battle: creating a new audience out of younger people.

“As the students start to take ownership of their campus, they’ll probably take WNHU with them,” he adds. “We’ve gotten to that level over the past couple years.” v

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Tony Sheldon as Horace Vandergelder learns that ‘It Only Takes a Moment’ to fall in love with Klea Blackhurst as Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly!

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Hello, Dolly! Music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. Book by Michael Stewart based on The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder.

Choreographed by Kelli Barclay. Directed by Daniel Goldstein. Through September 14 at Goodspeed Musicals, 6 Main St., East Haddam.

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n Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker, source material for Michael Stewart’s and Jerry Herman’s joyous musical, Hello, Dolly!, each major character presents his or her life philosophy to the audience (“direct address”) in the light, winsome and utterly original way that made Wilder a groundbreaking playwright.

Wisely, in writing the musical’s book, Michael Stewart included nearly all of these speeches.

So I begin my review of Goodspeed Musicals’ production of Hello, Dolly! with a Wilder-like address to readers. Rather than warning you about spoiler alerts lurking in the paragraphs ahead, I offer instead a “quibbler alert.” The production is almost, but not quite, perfect — and yet I urge everyone to see it. This beautiful, boisterous, glorious show is among the most enjoyable evenings of musical theater I’ve experienced.

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Director Daniel Goldstein has made some smart choices from the start. First, he cast Tony Sheldon as Horace Vandergelder. Among all the principal characters, Vandergelder changes the most from the beginning to the end of the play, and the common mistake is to choose an actor we can’t imagine as anything other than a miserly, nasty old goat — a man very much out of Molière. Sheldon, though, is handsomely distinguished looking (though we still very much view him as the master of a Yonkers, N.Y. hay and feed business), and his singing in “It Takes a Woman” tempers his character’s necessary roughness with a lovely sound. “Hmm,” we say.

“Might he actually have possibilities?”

The casting of Cornelius Hackl (Spencer Moses) and Barnaby Tucker (Jeremy Morse) is also spot-on. Moses is a tall, thin man whose Cornelius is appropriately awkward. Due to his unprepossessing appearance and the fact that he’s never been given a day off, the 32-year-old Cornelius has never kissed a girl (and is plenty ready to do so!). His transformation begins as soon as we hear him sing, “Put on Your Sunday Clothes,” one of the show’s happiest numbers.

Moses’ voice is stunningly beautiful, but softly so; his delivery displays Cornelius’ gentle depth, which only becomes more endearing the better we come to know him.

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As Cornelius’ young foil and buddy Barnaby, round-faced, sturdy Jeremy Morse couldn’t be more loveable and hilarious, with his somersaults out of nowhere, and his “Holy cabooses!”

Equally charming are the ladies these gentlemen eventually meet and win, after much farcical confusion. As Minnie Fay, Catherine Blades conveys a perfect ingénue’s innocence — except when she bursts out with impudent smarts. And as Irene Malloy, Ashley Brown combines striking beauty with a warm, wicked sense of humor.

Brown’s strong presence is a pleasure whether she is at the center of the action or not, and her voice is among the richest and most beautiful I’ve heard.

Of course anyone familiar with Hello, Dolly! knows that the show carries the audience from the Yonkers Hay & Feed Store through Grand Central Station to a Manhattan millenary shop and — most famously — to the Harmonia Gardens Restaurant, site of the show’s centerpiece number, “Hello, Dolly.” Along with director Goldstein, choreographer Kelli Barclay and scenic designer Adrian W. Jones render these transitions

a seamless and beautiful part of the production.

Wade Laboissonniere is to be commended for his elaborate 1880s costumes, as is Cookie Jordan for the extraordinary wig and hair design. Ably assisted by F. Wade Russo, Michael O’Flaherty’s musical direction is superb.

So, now we come to Dolly Levi herself: one of the most brilliant roles ever created for the musical theater. The character of Dolly shines in her humor, her warmth, her wisdom, and the love she spreads around (as she says of money) “like manure — encouraging young things to grow.” Klea Blackhurst has been led by director Goldstein to hit all these notes, and she does so and then some. From the first time we see her — in a clever directorial nod towards Wilder’s penchant for direct address and Dolly’s own genius for marketing — she enters from the back of the house, handing out her business cards to those fortunate enough to be sitting on the aisle. She then crosses in front of the stage, still chatting with the audience and handing out cards, and finally ascends to the Hay & Feed Store. By this time, we’re in love.

Blackhurst’s combination of crack comic timing, glowing stage command, and palpable affection toward the audience and the “young things” she so wants to see romantically matched make her a marvelous Dolly. However (and here comes the quibble) Blackhurst and Goldstein miss a vital element of Wilder’s Dolly and of the musical’s Dolly as well. Often within the script Dolly appeals to her dead husband Ephraim Levi to give her a sign that she may marry again with his blessing. Her crucial song “Before the Parade Passes By” includes, in its first four lines — which this production leaves out — “Before the parade passes by/Before it goes on, and only I’m left.”

At the center of Hello, Dolly! lies the vulnerability of a widow who is deciding, after two long years, to transform her life. And vulnerability is not a color that Blackhurst has been asked to play.

Without that vulnerability, a little bit of the great big heart of the show is missing.

But, as stated above, the quibble above is only that. Hello, Dolly! is a delight, and I hope its delight spreads throughout this summer among young and old alike. v

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BI BLIO P HILES A new biography of New Haven’s co-founder lifts the veil on an unjustly neglected figure who changed history

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here may be no other prominent figure in New England history about whom so many know so little as John Davenport.

The co-founder (with Theophilus Eaton) of the colony of New Haven, Davenport (1597-1670) has been largely neglected by studies that view early New England primarily from a Massachusetts viewpoint, but also from the sheer dearth of documentary evidence of his 73 years on earth.

(For example, there is but one extant image of the Puritan clergyman: a portrait by an unknown artist supposed to have been painted in Boston shortly before Davenport’s death.)

The only known extant image of Davenport is this portrait, supposed to have been painted in Boston by a (now) unknown artist shortly before the Puritan clergyman’s death in 1670. Yale University Art Gallery

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Now, just in time for the 375th anniversary of New Haven’s founding, that hole in the historical record has been filled in part by Francis Bremer, professor of history emeritus at Millersville (Pa.) University and leading scholar on Puritanism in the Old and New Worlds. Bremer previously authored a biography of another, better-known Puritan John — in this case four-time Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor Winthrop. However, previous efforts to spark publisher interest in a Davenport biography, Bremer notes, elicited reactions that were “lukewarm, at best.” Now, at last, Yale University Press has stepped into the breech, supported in part by a grant from the Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford.

John Davenport was born to a well-to-do and influential family in Coventry (his uncle Christopher became mayor of that English Midlands city in 1602) in 1597, some six decades after Henry VIII severed the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church after Pope Clement VII refused to annul the monarch’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon. What followed was more than a century of push and pull between Catholic and Reformist adherents for control of the English throne. It was onto this dynamic stage of history that John Davenport made his entrance.

Educated at Oxford, Davenport entered the clergy and fell under the influence of leading Puritan scholar John Preston. His evolving anti-“Papist” views would place the young clergyman in opposition to Bishop William Laud, who sought to rein in the reformers. After his position over time became untenable, Davenport in 1633 resigned from the established Church of England and NEWHAVENMAGAZINE.COM

moved to Holland, a republic that was perhaps the most fecund incubator of Protestant theology on the Continent.

drew some puritans to New England while offering those who could not emigrate a model of a godly society.”

Throughout his life Davenport sought to advance the cause of reform while preserving the unity of the larger church. In a 1622 “disputation” over whether worshipers ought to kneel to receive communion, Davenport argued on behalf of the objectives of the universal church. “[Is it] not better to unite our forces against those who oppose us in fundamentals than to be divided among ourselves about ceremonials?” he said.

But Davenport and Eaton were attracted to the unclaimed southern New England coast, particularly “that famous place called Quinnipiac,” featuring “a fair river fit for the harboring of ships” as well as “right and goodly meadows.” So on Sunday, April 25, 1638, the ships bearing John Davenport and his fellow adventurers sailed into the four-mile-long, broad estuary on the northern shore of Long Island Sound that was known as Quinnipiac Harbor.

Davenport was a stalwart advocate for the unyielding Puritan standards for church membership and for the strict qualifications for infant baptism, which he believed should be administered only to the children of full church members. His time in Holland was scarred by a controversy with his supervising pastor John Paget over that issue, which precipitated Davenport’s withdrawal from the Puritan church in Amsterdam.

Just one uncharted horizon beckoned: the New World. On June 26, 1637 Davenport arrived in the port of Boston aboard the ship Hector. Under John Winthrop’s leadership Boston, Bremer writes, “has indeed become a city on a hill that

From the vantage point of 375 years later, the rest is history.

Davenport did not spend the remainder of his life in New Haven. In 1668, two years before his death, he returned to Boston. The year before that he unsuccessfully opposed the incorporation of New Haven Colony into the reorganized colony of Connecticut under a royal charter.

(The Elm City’s final chapter as a political counterweight to Hartford crumbled in 1889 when the Old State House on the upper Green was razed, and with it the last physical remnant of the Elm City’s 172-year reign as “co-capital” of Connecticut.)

Bremer is masterful at summoning the day-today conditions of living in a time so different from our own. Of a 1624 outbreak of bubonic plague in London (where 35,000 perished from the disease), where Davenport was then employed as vicar of St. Stephen’s Church, he writes: “Over the door of every house infected… the clerk or sexton of the parish was to post a sign with the words ‘Lord have mercy upon us’ and a red cross affixed to the structure.”

So fearful was the pestilence that “Some mothers, terrified of what would come, murdered their children lest they catch and succumb to the plague,” Bremer explains.

Indeed, some non-historian readers may struggle with Bremer’s exhaustive details of Davenport’s life and times. But perhaps the author’s most illuminating achievement is to demonstrate, through the lens of Davenport’s transatlantic life, that there “was no such thing as a typical puritan.”

John Davenport’s legacy remains palpable in his adopted New World home. Both Presidents Bush are related to Davenport, and while at Yale College both were members of Davenport College — whose namesake you can probably guess. v

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On first glance, THE WORK OF ARTISTS ANITA SOOS AND KEN LOVELL COULD NOT BE MORE DISSIMILAR IN STYLE AND CONTENT. While the paintings of both are created through a print process, Soos’ layers of intense color and the wriggling gyrations of Lovell’s prints might otherwise be hard to connect.

However, a conversation with the artists strangely bridges the two styles in the same way that the environment can contain a calm sea and genetic coding.

Just as the god of any creation story conjures the earth and universe, an artist picks up a tool and expresses his or her own creative design. In the works on view through September 20 at Gallery 195, both artists seem to invoke matter and the elements, before and after life was created.

In Lovell’s prints, what appear to be random squiggles are most certainly not. Reminiscent of genetic coding, it was a not a big surprise to find that most of his works contain only 12 shapes taken from an MRI of his son’s brain during a recent illness.

The shapes in “Venus Anomaly No. 2” float like amoeba under a microscope glass or genetic codes in placenta wetness. In “Venus Anomaly No. 1” the same sense of origin exists but due to the greens and golds of the gradient background, in a more earthbound way.

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Lovell employs his skill with plastic forms that were created by feeding the data of his son’s MRI into a 3D imaging printer. The result is the 12 forms that weave together or hover alone, the thick outlines restraining lush inky colors. The overall effect is as solid as stained glass yet as fluid as water.

Without knowing the origin of the 12 forms, a viewer might dismiss the print as too simplistic.

However, a look at the “Tunica” triptych takes the viewer from the peaceful pre-mortal “Venus” existence to the chaos of a brain in full excitement mode.

Those same shapes from “Venus” are employed in the “Tunica” prints, but instead of floating peacefully, they practically resonate with sound, like energy humming from a brain on overload.

Yet for all the frenetic momentum they conjure, there is a cohesiveness that holds them still. The fact that they are framed plays a welcome role in containing all that energy. In a world gone mad, imagine the frames removed and the viewer overwhelmed by chaos.

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Lovell is technical director of the Yale University Digital Media for the Arts and has been working with computer-generated prints and organic shapes for several years. He references Kandinsky as an influence, and while this particular body of work does not seem to reflect Kandinsky’s art, Lovell’s expressive use of shapes and bold color do.

Another, very different, piece, “Cultch 01,” is collaged with gauzy materials that are scanned and painted — then gauzed, scanned and painted again. The layering of color is still the thing, but the end result is a much more complicated image. The viewer is drawn from the complicated genetic-coding into the calmer organization of life — a coming together of cellular shapes in 1020 Chapel Street gentler colors: divided, ordered,and now born.

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Soos employs layering of color rather than shape to express her designs. Her colors play with the paint, and light plays with shadow.

Soos says her most frequent muse is water but she removes that easy identification by orienting her paintings vertically rather than horizontally. Looking at the world on its side brings a new perspective and challenges the viewer to bring his own interpretation to the work.

Much of Soos’ previous work has focused on the lines of rhythm. All of her prints for this show are titled “Cadence,” and like images of sound waves, lines may come fast or slow, thick or thin. For Soos, everything comes in waves: from light to life cycles, and of course in water. But her prints are less images of waves than about the impact of light on colors of the sea, the dusk-‘til-dawn watercolors that shift while light dances, hypnotic and repetitive enough to draw the viewer to meditative peacefulness.

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While Soos insists her prints reflect water, the fact that they are vertical takes the viewer to a different place.

Or it may simply be that the artist’s instinct has allowed other earthly elements to emerge as well. There

is too much gold and orange to ignore the flames of fire, too many vertical stripes amid deep color and slashes of pale not to suggest a forest.

Perhaps the most delicious aspect of Soos’ work is the way one thick color is pressed into another.

Whether the green emerges through the gold, or the reds dissolve into deep purple, the exchange of color might be the most inspirational aspect of her work.

Having hailed Mark Rothko as an inspiration, the color in Soos’ work is indeed fertile ground. Rothko spoke often about man’s immersion in too many things not of the soul.

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The year is 1942 and the luxurious Palm Beach Royale Hotel is under siege as two of Hollywood’s biggest divas feud for the same suite. Mistaken identities, overblown egos, double entendres and a lap dog named Mr. Boodies round out the hilarious comedy, Suite Surrender. 8 p.m. August 23-24 at Phoenix Stage Co., 686 Rubber Ave., Naugatuck. $22 ($18 seniors).

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Opening Stephen Sondheim’s and Hugh Wheeler’s chilling masterpiece, Sweeney Todd, tells the infamous tale of the unjustly exiled barber who returns to 19th-century London seeking revenge against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. His thirst for blood soon expands to include his unfortunate customers, and the resourceful proprietress of the pie shop downstairs soon has the people of London lining up in droves with her mysterious new meat pie recipe. 8 p.m.

September 14, 20-21, 27-28; 2 p.m. September 15 & 22 at Phoenix Stage Co., 686 Rubber Ave., Naugatuck. $22 ($18 seniors). 203632-8546, phoenixstagecompany.com.

In the steamy French Quarter of New Orleans, an electrifying battle of wills ignites between Southern belle Blanche DuBois and her working-class brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski.

Nerves fraying and beauty fading, Blanche is both repelled and intrigued by Stanley’s primal brutishness — even as he threatens to reveal her darkest secrets and destroy her illusions.

Yale Repertory Theatre’s first ever production of Tennessee Williams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece A Streetcar Named Desire is staged by Mark Rucker, whose eight previous Rep productions include Tom Stoppard’s Rough Crossing in 2008. The cast features René Augesen (last seen on Chapel Street in A Woman of No Importance) as Blanche DuBois and Joe Manganiello (HBO’s True Blood) as Stanley Kowalski.

September 20-October 12 at Yale Repertory Theatre, 1120 Chapel St., New Haven. $73-$54. 203-432-1234, yalerep.org.

Frank Loesser’s musical Abbondanza! is a love story about a city bride who is wooed by an aging Italian grape farmer who botches nearly everything until his true goodness shines through. Songs include “Standing on the Corner” and “Somebody, Somewhere.” September 20-December 1 at Goodspeed Opera House, 6 Main St., East Haddam. $78-$37.

860-873-8668, goodspeed.org.

Off-Broadway’s longest-running musical, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, explores the joys of dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and in-laws. 7:30 p.m. Wed.Thurs., 8 pm. Fri.-Sat., 2 p.m. Wed. & Sun. September 25-October 13 at Ivoryton Playhouse, 103 Main St., Ivoryton. $40 ($35 seniors, $20 studs, $15 12 & under). 860-767-7318, ivorytonplayhouse.com.

Elm Shakespeare stages its annual production in Edgerton Park.

This year it’s the Bard’s signal tragedy Julius Caesar. Alvin Epstein and James Andreassi direct. 8 p.m. daily except Mon. through September 1 at Edgerton Park, 75 Cliff St., New Haven.

Free. 203-874-0801, elmshakespeare.org.

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Dreamgirls is not just about the singing and the dancing and the performing. The play is also about the behind-the-scenes reality of the entertainment industry. 7:30 p.m. Wed.-Thurs., 8 pm. Fri.-Sat., 2 p.m. Wed. & Sun. through September 1 at Ivoryton Playhouse, 103 Main St., Ivoryton. $40 ($35 seniors, $20 students, $15 12 & under). 860-767-7318, ivorytonplayhouse.com.

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Hello Dolly! The classic musical about Dolly Levi who meddles in many a person’s affairs while at the same time seeking her own “half a millionaire.” Jerry Herman’s score includes tunes like “Put on Your Sunday Clothes,” “Before the Parade Passes By,” and “It Only Takes a Moment.” Through September 8 at Goodspeed Opera House, 6 Main St., East Haddam. $78-$35.

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ART Opening 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. It includes work by artists such as 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 given to YUAG reflects the broader variety of work produced in New York during this period. August 23-January 26 at Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St., New Haven. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily except Mon. (until 8 p.m. Thurs.) 1-6 p.m.

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

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 1933), includes “Picasso Goes to Heaven” (1973), “Studio at the Rue des Grands-Augustins” (1990–96), and the great 27-footlong “Cedar Bar” (1986). August 30-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, artgalleryinfo@yale.edu.

Photography by Sven Martson: My Seventies. Hank Paper: New Italian Color. September 6-October 6 at Kehler Liddell Gallery, 873 Whalley Ave., New Haven. Open 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Thurs.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat.-Sun. Free. 203-389-9555, kehlerliddell.com.

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Guilford Art League’s 66th Juried Exhibition & Sale. September 12-October 5 at Mill Gallery, Guilford Art Center, 144 Church St., Guilford. Open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.-Sat, noon-4 p.m. Sun. Free.

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The New England Landscape Invitational is a juried member/invitational show in all four galleries of the Lyme Art Association. September 27-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.

Francesco Vanni: Art in Late Renaissance Siena. The first monographic exhibition of this major artist includes over 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 century and a key figure in Italian Counter-Reformation 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.

Vanni created altarpieces in every important church in Siena, and he also received commissions in Rome, most notably from Pope Clement VIII for a monumental altarpiece for the Basilica of Saint Peter. September 27-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, artgalleryinfo@yale.edu.

Continuing Identity Is Precarious, an exhibition of works by Isabelle Sánchez. Through August 24 at the DaSilva Gallery, 897-899 Whalley Ave., New Haven. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed.-Sat. Free.

203-387-2539, dasilva-gallery.com.

The Emotion of Color is an exhibition of paintings by Mason Markley. Through August 27 at the New Haven Free Public Library Art Gallery, 133 Elm. St., New Haven. Open 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Mon.-

Thurs., 10 a.m. -5 p.m. Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat. Free. 203-946-8130, nhfpl.org.

Summer Along the Shore includes works by 20 nationally exhibited studio and plein air artists. Through August 31 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. 203-3180616, susanpowellfineart.com.

Summer Showcase showcases a variety of artwork by gallery artists including collage/mixed media, watercolor, pottery, sculpture, oil, pastel and monoprints. Through August 31 at Elm City Artists Gallery, 55 Whitney Ave., New Haven. Open 10 a.m-6 p.m. daily except Sun. Free. 203-922-2359, elmcityartists.com.

Project Room Artists includes works by Dana Filibert, Meghan Grubb and Adam Brent. Through September 7 at Artspace, 50 Orange St., New Haven. Open noon-6 p.m. Wed.-Thurs., noon-8 p.m. Fri.-Sat. Free. 203-772-2709, artspacenh.org.

Strange Beauty: The Photography of Carolyn Marks Blackwood.

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

The Arts Council of Greater New Haven presents Unfold, its tenth annual members show. Though September 13 at the Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery, 70 Audubon St. (2nd Fl.), New Haven. Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays. Free. 203-772-2788, newhavenarts.org.

The Arts Council of Greater New Haven presents an exhibition of works by Connecticut artists Anita Soos and Ken Lovell.

Soos’ works are painterly prints that are atmospheric and reference landscape, while digital painter Ken Lovell programs random elements from computer-generated templates.

Through September 20 at Gallery 195, 195 Church St. (4th Fl.), New Haven. Open 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.-Wed., 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Thurs.-Fri. Free. 203-772-2788, newhavenarts.org.

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In the exhibition Windows into Heaven, more than 225 examples of Russian Orthodox iconography, along with other liturgical and devotional items, are on display. Icons are often called “windows into heaven” because they were thought to give the viewer a glimpse of the eternal realm. Many of the items are more than 100 years old, predating the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. As a form of sacred art, iconographers historically prayed or fasted before and during the creation of an icon. Traditionally, icons were painted in egg tempera on wood and often accented with gold leaf or covered with ornately gilt metal covers called rizas. Rich in symbolism, they are still used extensively in Orthodox churches and monasteries, and many Russian homes have icons hanging on the wall in a “beautiful” (or prayer) corner. Through September 30 at Knights of Columbus Museum, 1 Columbus Plaza, New Haven. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. Free. 203-865-0400, kofcmuseum.org.

Art in Focus: St. Ives Abstraction. This exhibition explores how the Cornish town of St. Ives inspired and influenced the artists who visited there and made it their home, through its striking coastal landscape and its vibrant artistic community. Artists represented include Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, John Wells, Roger Hilton and Patrick Heron. Through September 30 at the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St., New Haven.

Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat., noon-5 p.m. Sun. Free. 203-4322800, britishart.yale.edu.

U-Phoria features work by artists in the Arts Council of Greater New Haven’s Visual Arts Advisory Group (VAAG). Through October 31 at the Gallery at Whitney Center, 200 Leeder Hill Dr., Hamden. Open 4-7 p.m. Tues. & Thurs., 1-4 p.m. Sat. Free. 203772-2788, newhavenarts.org. v

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MUSIC Classical The fourth and final concert of the 2013 Chestnut Hill Concerts series features music of The Romantic Masters.

Works by great 19th-century romantic composers alongside lesser-known chamber works. Featuring Hyunah Yu, soprano, violinist Steven Copes, Ronald Thomas, cello and pianist Mihae Lee. 8 p.m. August 23 at Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook. $35-$30. 877-503-1286, katharinehepburntheater.org.

The Neighborhood Music School hosts its annual Fall Open House. Event includes an “instrument petting zoo,” where younger children can try out real instruments, assisted by older students and teachers. Also, interactive activities and free classes, including dance classes (jazz, creative and modern) and early childhood music and movement. 1-4 p.m. September 8 at Neighborhood Music School, 100 Audubon St., New Haven.

Free. 203-624-5189, neighborhoodmusicschool.org.

Populated by some of the most promising young instrumentalists in the country is the Yale School of Music’s Yale Philharmonia under the baton of Music Director Shinik Hahm. The orchestra kicks off the 2013-14 concert season. 8 p.m. September 20 at Woolsey Hall, 500 College St., New Haven.

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

Popular Since their first LP released in 1967 under the name Chicago Transit Authority (later condensed simply to Chicago when the real Chicago Transit Authority threatened a trademarkinfringement lawsuit), the pioneering rock/pop horn band has charted an endless stream of No. 1 hits that has virtually defined the arc of many baby-boomers lives. 7:30 p.m. August 20 at Oakdale Theatre, 95 South Turnpike Rd., Wallingford. $76$49. 203-265-1501, oakdale.com.

Twin sister YouTube sensations Megan & Liz have more than 120,000 subscribers all over the world yet still find themselves without a record deal. The 17-year-old Michigan high-schoolers have nevertheless been gaining momentum thanks to a strong Internet presence and appearances on the likes of the Oprah Winfrey Show. 7 p.m. August 21 at the Space, 295 Treadwell St., Hamden. $20 ($15 advance/$40 VIP). 203-288-6400, thespace.tk.

Occidental Gypsy (Western gypsy) embodies the concept behind Gypsy Pop. The group has taken the Gypsy sound that originated in Eastern Europe and brought it across the Atlantic to blend it seamlessly with contemporary American music. 7:30 p.m. August 22 at Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook. $20. 877-503-1286, katharinehepburntheater.org.

J e f f e r y B r o u s s a r d & t h e C r e o l e C o w b o y s . The son of esteemed accordionist Delton Broussard, Jeffery Broussard was a leading member in Zydeco Force, an influential band at the forefront of the nouveau zydeco movement. His accordion and vocals defined this new style of Creole music, incorporating the soulful sounds of R&B into contemporary zydeco music and dance. These guys will definitely rock the Nine. 8 p.m. August 22 at Café Nine, 250 State St., New Haven. $15-$12. 203-789-8281, cafenine.com.

Country folk-pop artist Shawn Mullins has had a long and successful career, going back to his first chart-topping single “Lullaby” in 1999 and “Beautiful Wreck” in 2006. The singer is touring to promote his new album Light You Up, inspired by the 2009 birth of his son. 8 p.m. August 23 at Spaceland Ballroom, 295 Treadwell St., Hamden. $30 ($20 advance). 203-288-6400, spacelandballroom.com.

Veteran indie rockers mewithoutYou brings their manically psychedelic noise to the Space this summer, singing its various character pieces, dream studies and musings on life, mortality and loss — all with a measure of almost childlike goofiness.

The band will be joined by A Great Big Pile of Leaves. 7 p.m.

August 24 at the Space, 295 Treadwell St., Hamden. $18 ($16 advance). 203-288-6400, thespace.tk.

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Straight from Austin, Tex. are guitarist/vocalist Carley Wolf and drummer Little Hammer, the duo collectively known as the Ghost Wolves. One periodical called their music “bodacious garage rock with a sneer. Milksop: Unsung and Orb Mellon open. 8 p.m. August 26 at Cafe Nine, 250 State St., New Haven. $5. 203-789-8281, cafenine.com.

Relive the memories, real and imagined, of the Grateful Dead with tribute act Dead Show, which boast the improvisational style of the legendary band’s late-‘80s live sound. The group features members of the Marks Brothers, Lobsterz from Marz and Illuminati. 9 p.m. August 29 at Spaceland Ballroom, 295 Treadwell St., Hamden. $12 ($10 advance). 203-288-6400, spacelandballroom.com.

Maria Rose & the Swiss Kicks will bring its bold and passionate pop to Hamden, fitting the sound of a big arena into a small room. Think Florence + the Machine and Fiona Apple with the bombast of Muse. 7 p.m. August 29 at the Outer Space, 295 Treadwell St., Hamden. Tickets TBA. 203-288-6400, theouterspace.net.

Connecticut native Arika Kane is a fast-rising R&B and soul singer/songwriter. Last November her sophomore album Substance became a bestselling album on Amazon, peaking at No. 1 on the Contemporary R&B chart. 8:30 p.m. August 29 at Toad’s Place, 300 York St., New Haven. $15 ($12 advance). 203624-8623, toadsplace.com.

The “six-piece living inferno” that is the Mallet Brothers Band is an energetic blend of Americana, country, bluegrass and rock — with a little punk spirit thrown in for good measure. The Portland, Me. band has garnered generous the accolades in their home state and across the country and returns to Outer Space just before Labor Day. 9:30 p.m. August 30 at the Outer Space, 295 Treadwell St., Hamden. 203-288-6400, theouterspace. net.

The nearly undefined sounds of Grex combine the disparate styles of indie rock, blues and modern jazz into unique compositions. The California duo hits the East Coast for the first time this summer, with an afternoon gig at Outer Space along the way. 3 p.m. August 31 at the Outer Space, 295 Treadwell St., Hamden. Free. 203-288-6400, theouterspace.net.

The “Groucho Marx of the guitar,” Eugene Chadbourne is unique in the history of contemporary music for being at the same time an avant-garde composer in the classical tradition, a jazz improviser, a folk musician and a member of a rock band.

Only Frank Zappa could compete with such eclecticism. With the Space Orphans and Malcolm Tent. 9 p.m. August 31 at Cafe Nine, 250 State St., New Haven. $12-$10. 203-789-8281, cafenine. com.

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In support of a new LP scheduled for release — oh, right about now — legendary soul shouter Barrence Whitfield & the Savages return to the Nine. 9 p.m. September 6 at Cafe Nine, 250 State St., New Haven. $12-$10. 203-789-8281, cafenine.com.

The virtuosic one-man violin band that is Kishi Bashi uses a multitude of digital effects to push the sonic boundaries of his instrument and his voice into intriguing baroque pop tunes with soaring melodies and atypical arrangements, in a live show honed by his time on the road with indie-pop-funk kings Of Montreal. 8 p.m. September 9 at the Space, 295 Treadwell St., Hamden. $12 ($10 advance). 203-288-6400, thespace.tk.

How do you pigeonhole the music of Michael Franti & Spearhead? You don’t. The 47-year-old poet, singer and composer leads a band that infuses hip-hop with elements of funk, reggae, jazz, folk and rock. 9 p.m. September 10 at Toad’s Place, 300 York St., New Haven. $35 ($30 advance). 203-624-8623, toadsplace.com.

Pinback have been cranking out melancholy indie-pop since the late ‘90s and are still going strong, now on tour to promote their new album, Information Retrieved. The band will be supported by Deathfix, itself comprised of several members of former Hüsker Dü frontman Bob Mould’s band. 9 p.m.

September 12 at Spaceland Ballroom, 295 Treadwell St., Hamden. $20 ($18 advance). 203-288-6400, spacelandballroom.com.

Grammy award-winning baritone saxophonist Lauren Sevian has been performing professionally since age 12, first on the piano, then on sax. While still in college she toured with the critically-acclaimed big band Diva. In 2003, she became a regular member of the Mingus Big Band and has toured the world with them. More recently she has performed with vocalist Jane Monheit as part of the group Jane Monheit & the Ladies of Jazz and has backed up artists such as Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley. 7:30 p.m. September 13 at Palace Theatre, 100 E. Main St., Waterbury. $18.50. 203-346-2000, palacetheatrect.com.

Nearly a decade after folk-rock duo Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion put out their first album together, the husbandand-wife pair feel like they’ve finally hit their stride on Wassaic Way, a collection of 11 new songs to be released this August 6 on Rte 8 Records. The Melodic open the show. 9 p.m.

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The return of Eddie Spaghetti! The Supersuckers kick out a gleefully trashy brand of throttling, psychobilly-flavored garage punk. Hellbound Glory open. 8 p.m. September 5 at Cafe Nine, 250 State St., New Haven. $15. 203-789-8281, cafenine.com.

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Perhaps the most distinctive highharmony singer in the history of rock ‘n’ roll, Graham Nash comes to the Shubert September 19 for an evening with New Haven.

evening of acoustic folk and blues. 7:30 p.m.

September 19 at Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook. $40.

877-503-1286, katharinehepburntheater.org.

In their first North American tour in six years, the Waterboys perform Celtic folk and rock on drums, fiddle, guitar, earth resonator and waterkeys. The result is a virtuosic evening of musical fireworks. Freddie Stevenson opens. 8 p.m. September 21 at the Shubert Theater, 247 College St., New Haven. $45-$35. 203-562-5666, shubert.com.

Jon Dee Graham is a legend on the Austin, Tex. music scene. He’s been inducted into the Austin Music Hall of Fame three times — in 2000 as a solo artist, in 2008 as a member of the Skunks, and in 2009 as a member of the True Believers. In 2006, readers of the Austin Chronicle named him Austin Musician of the Year. Mike June opens. 8 p.m. September 24 at Cafe Nine, 250 State St., New Haven. $10. 203789-8281, cafenine.com.

Booker T, and Smokey Robinson, and currently is the axe-man for Daryl Hall & John Oates. An intimate Hamden show will give you the chance to see him on the small stage.

9:30 p.m. September 13 at the Outer Space, 295 Treadwell St., Hamden. $5. 203-288-6400, theouterspace.net.

It will be a night of contrast with the epic postrock-meets-hardcore sounds of O’Brother,

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who plays with the hardcore-meets grunge sounds of Washington State-based Native along with Daylight and Old Gray. 7 p.m.

September 14 at the Space, 295 Treadwell St., Hamden. $10 ($12 advance). 203-288-6400, thespace.tk.

An Evening with Graham Nash. Legendary singer/songwriter Nash comes to New Haven as part of his “An Evening With” series

of concerts in the eastern U.S. His trio is rounded out by keyboardist James Raymond and guitarist Shane Fontayne, both members of Crosby, Stills & Nash’s touring band. 7:30 p.m. September 19 at the Shubert Theater, 247 College St., New Haven. $79-$39. 203-562-5666, shubert.com.

Rory Block & Patti Larkin. Two longtime Kate favorites share the stage for a wonderful

SCSU’s Jazz at Lyman Center fall jazz series kicks off with acclaimed soprano sax whiz Marion Meadows in support of his new LP Whisper. He’ll be complemented by funky trumpeter/flugelhorn player Cindy Bradley.

8 p.m. September 27 at Lyman Center for the Performing Arts, Southern Connecticut State University, 501 Crescent St., New Haven. $34, $28 faculty/staff, $18 SCSU students. 203-3926154, tickets.southernct.edu. v

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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. August 7, September 4 at Blackstone Library, 758 Main St., Branford. Free. 203-483-6653, blackstone.lioninc. org/booktalk.htm.

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. August 13, September 10 at Blackstone Library, 758 Main St., Branford. Free. 203-488-1441, ext.

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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. August 15, September 19 at Scranton Library, 801 Boston Post Rd., Madison. Free. 203245-7365.

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

7 p.m. August 15, September 19 at Young Men’s Institute Library, 847 Chapel St., New Haven. Free. thepoetryinstitute.com.

BENEFITS The Face of Mercy is the aptly titled 40th anniversary gala for the Mercy Center at Madison. Cocktails by the sea, hors d’oeuvres, live auction, Face of Mercy recognition awards, dessert, coffee — the whole shebang. 5:30-7:30 p.m. September 21 at Mercy Center, 167 Neck Rd., Madison. $75. 203-245-0401, mercybythesea/org.

CINEMA A Kate Classic film presentation is Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1962, 174 min., USA). Katharine Hepburn received her ninth Best Actress Oscar nomination for playing Mary Tyrone, a depressed, unstable addict in the movie version of Eugene O’Neill’s drama.. The role also won her Best Actress at Cannes in 1962. Sidney Lumet directs. 2 & 7 p.m. August 20 at Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook. $8.

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Burt Lancaster and Montgomery Clift star in From Here to Eternity (1953, 118 min., USA). In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit’s team, while his captain’s wife and second-in-command are falling in love.

Features perhaps the most famous kiss in Hollywood history.

Free pizza, too! 5 p.m. August 29 at Hagaman Memorial Library, 227 Main St., East Haven. Free. Registration. 203-468-3890, hagamanlibrary.info.

COMEDY 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.

Billy Winn began his comedy career at the original Treehouse Comedy Club in Westport 24 years ago hosting Connecticut’s first comedy Open Mic Night. He has parlayed that natural comedic ability into a comedy career that spans all the major media. He’s a regular on Chaz and AJ’s morning-drive show on WPLR (99.1 FM). John Romanoff opens. 8 p.m. August 30, 8 &

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10:30 p.m. August 31 at Joker’s Wild, 232 Wooster St., New Haven. $18. 203-773-0733, jokerswildclub.com.

After honing his chops at Philadelphia’s Laff House, Clint Coley moved to New York City to embark on his quest to become a full-time comedian. Inspired by legendary and greats such as Chris Rock and George Carlin, Coley won Amateur Night at the world famous Apollo Theater within months of arriving in the Big City at age 23. Now he comes to New Haven for one night only. 8 p.m. September 5 at Joker’s Wild, 232 Wooster St., New Haven. $14. 203-773-0733, jokerswildclub.com.

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. August 27, September 24 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. September’s menu: pan-fried sweet corn cakes with fresh mozzarella, arugula and cherry tomato tapenade; mini focaccia with fresh rosemary, prosciutto, red grapes and grana padana; gemelli pasta with sautéed shrimp, broccoli rabe, roasted butternut squash and gorgonzola in EVOO and garlic sauce; warm peaches and blackberries over homemade lemon pound cake with Chambord cream. 6:30 p.m. September 12, 18, 26 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. FAIR HAVEN: 2-6 p.m.

Thursdays through October 31 at Grand Ave. & Poplar St. THE HILL: 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Fridays through October 25 at Connecticut Mental Health Center, 34 Park St. 203-773-3736, cityseed.org.

FAIRS & FESTIVALS Shuck this: The 39th annual Milford Oyster Festival features music (headlined by Blues Traveler), arts and crafts, fabulous food, folks and fun. And oysters! 10 a.m.-6 p.m. August 17 at Shipyard La., Milford. Free. 203-878-5363, milfordoysterfestival. com.

Odyssey: A Greek Festival is one of Connecticut’s largest Hellenic festivals celebrating Greek food, music and culture.

Festivities include live music, dancing, marketplace vendors, kids’ area, church tours and lectures. Noon-10 p.m. August 29-31, noon-8 p.m. September 1 at St. Barbara Greek Orthodox Church, 480 Racebrook Rd., Orange. Free. 203-795-1347, saintbarbara.org.

The 70th annual North Haven Fair is bigger and better than ever.

Agricultural exhibits, animals galore, rides, magic, juggling, contests (including tractor pull and skillet toss), comedy and lots of music (including Bad Mannerz, Vinnie Carr & the Party Band, Tyler Farr and the Navels). 5-10 p.m. September 5, 3-11 p.m. September 6, 10 a.m.-11 p.m. September 7, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.

September 8 at North Haven Fairgrounds, Washington Ave. $10 (under 12 free accompanied by adult). 203-239-3700, northhavenfair.com.

The Eastern States Exposition is New England’s six-state fair.

It’s a New England extravaganza with top-name entertainment, major exhibits, the Big E Super Circus, the Avenue of States, New England history and agriculture, animals, rides, shopping, crafts, a daily parade and a Mardi Gras parade and foods from around the world for 17 glorious days during New England’s most colorful season. September 13-29 at 1305 Memorial Ave., West Springfield, Mass. Most exhibits & buildings open 10 a.m.-10 p.m. daily. $10 advance ($8 ages 6-12). 413-2055049, thebige.com.

Gilded mummy mask (linen, plaster, paint and gilding) dating from Ptolemaic period (305-30 BC). From the exhibition Echoes of Egypt: Conjuring the Land of the Pharaohs at the Peabody Museum.

If it’s September it must be Durham Fair time. One of Connecticut’s oldest (94 years and counting) and largest harvest festivals has so much to see and do — from a midway with rides and games to music (Justin Moore and Josh Turner, to name just two) to animals (including penning and pulling contests) to exhibits (don’t miss the giant pumpkins!) to classic fair food fare. 9 a.m.-11 p.m. September 26-28, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. September 29 at Durham Fairgrounds. $15 ($13 seniors, under 12 free). 860-349-9495, durhamfair.com.

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. August 3, September 7 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.

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

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

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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.

NATURAL HISTORY This year marks the Return of the 17-Year Cicadas! Nymphs of this common species emerged in late May — for the first time since 1996 — from colonies in forested regions in south-central Connecticut. The adult insects are seen and heard throughout June. This Peabody exhibition offers an indepth look at this unusual creature, including information on the biology, life cycle and range of the noisy insect. Through September 3 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.

Echoes of Egypt: Conjuring the Land of the Pharaohs will take visitors on a journey through 2,000 years of fascination with ancient Egypt, the land of the pharaohs. Highlights include an examination of the meaning and changing uses of hieroglyphs, together with an exploration of Egyptosophy, the use of the magic and religious symbolism of ancient Egypt in later cultures. And of course no display on Egypt would be complete without mummies, here treated not as oddities but explained as examples of the Egyptian fascination with regeneration through decay. A centerpiece will be a diorama showing a scene from a 19th-century “mummy unwrapping” event in Philadelphia, complete with a mummy from the Barnum Museum and an invitation from the American Antiquarian Society. Through January 4 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.

SPORTS/RECREATION Spectator Sports The New Haven Open at Yale is the former Pilot Pen Tennis Tournament. Caroline Wozniacki, who has won the New Haven event four times, has committed to return this year to the WTA event. Thursday through Saturday sessions to be broadcast live on ESPN2. The 2013 event also offers tennis fans a host of offcourt activities including the Aetna FitZone, New Haven Food & Wine Festival, autograph sessions, live entertainment, and much more. August 16-24 at Connecticut Tennis Center, 45 Yale

Ave., New Haven. $58-$12/session (packages available). 855-4648366, newhavenopen.com.

Clinics The Connecticut Sports Management Group and the Nutmeg State Games present the first-ever Nutmeg Basketball Coaches Clinic. Participating coaches include CCSU’s Howie Dickenman, Quinnipiac men’s coach Tom Moore, Yale’s James Jones, and former UConn legend Jen Rizzotti, women’s coach at the University of Hartford. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. September 20, 9 a.m.-noon September 21 at Ramada Plaza, 50 Morgan St., Hartford. $135. Reg. 860-528-4588, nutmegstategames.org.

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. August 12, Sept. 9 at City Hall Meeting Rm. 2, 165 Church St., New Haven. Free. elmcitycycling.org.

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Register now for the Quinnipiac Chamber of Commerce’s 29th annual Tom Groves Golf Classic. Shotgun start; scramble format. Dinner, awards follow. 12:30 p.m. September 9 at the Farms Country Club, 180 Cheshire Rd., Wallingford. $225. 203-2699891, maribel@quinncham.com.

Road Races/Triathlons In the 22 years since it began, Stratford’s MADD Dash 5K has raised more than $125,000 for the Fairfield County chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Another beneficiary is the runners themselves — the Short Beach course is absolutely flat, fast and scenic. 9 a.m. August 17 (8:15 kids fun run; 8:50 two-mile walk) at Short Beach, Stratford. $17 advance, $20 day of race ($5 fun run). 203-374-6433, msrunningproductions@yahoo.com.

Crosby Commons hosts the fourth annual Wesley Village Road Race, a 5K road race and fun walk. 9 a.m. August 24 at Crosby Commons, 580 Long Hill Ave., Shelton. $20 advance/$25 day of race. 203-225-7980, wesleyvillage-ct.org.

As Connecticut road races go, this one’s the big Kahuna: the 36th annual Stratton Faxon New Haven Road Race, a/k/a the national 20K men’s and women’s championship, with $41,550 in prize money. Also, 5K and half-mile races in children’s, men and women, wheelchair and Clydesdale divisions. Sponsored by the NewAlliance Foundation Inc. 8:15 a.m. (kids’ race 8:40) September 2 on New Haven Green. $50 advance 20K; $30 5K; $9 ½ mi. 203-481-5933, newhavenroadrace.org.

If you’d like to go through life bragging that you competed in a triathlon (and who wouldn’t?), you could do a lot worse than the Dave Parcells Madison Triathlon. For one thing, it seems semi-do-able: a half-mile swim, followed by 13 miles on the bike and a three-mile road race. For another thing, it benefits the Madison Jaycees. 7 a.m. September 7 at Surf Club, Madison Town Beach, Surf Club Rd., Madison. $85. 860-669-1354, madisonjc.com.

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It’s the 15th annual Hammerfest Triathlon, challenging participants with a half-mile swim, 13.5-mile bike race and four-mile run (distances approximate). 7:30 a.m. September 15 at Owenego Beach Club, 40 Linden Ave., Branford. $75 USA Triathlon members, $85 non-members. 203-488-8541, hammerfesttriathlon.com.

The International Institute of Connecticut’s “first annual” Invitational Golf Tournament features prizes for putting, closest to the pin, longest drive and hole-in-one — there’s even a “Million-Dollar Shot” prize (we’re guessing it’s a “long shot”).

Twenty-two foursomes will be accommodated. Noon August 27 at Lyman Orchards Golf Club, 70 Lyman Rd., Middlefield. $150

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nless you’re in the mood for sticky plastic tablecloths, disposable utensils and sauces in packets, downtown New Haven has relatively few options for Chinese dining. Royal Palace in the Ninth Square is probably the best sit-down option, but the takeout counter out front and bare-bones ambience keep it from special-occasion status.

Taste of China opened this spring on Chapel Street with a new paradigm for New Haven Chinese: upscale, pricy and narrowly focused on the food of Szechuan province. Some strip-mall Szechuan joints in Orange may pack more heat, but Taste of China brings subtlety and elegance to Chinese dining in town and should take its place as a regional destination.

Shoreline diners have already discovered the talented chefs behind Taste of China — since 2000 they have run a restaurant in Clinton that’s become a local favorite. And although the

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The menu opens with the unexpected: cold appetizers usually hiding amid the offal on traditional Chinese menus. We took a chance and chose the inauspiciously named “Chengdu bean jello” ($8), a bet that paid off in a savory and enticing blend of flavor and texture. Instead of a sweet dessert, we got cubes of soft, silky bean starch that arrived warm and were tossed with chili oil, Szechuan pepper, herbs and crisp nubs of pork. (Pork showed up unexpectedly in several dishes, so ask carefully if you’re vegetarian or have any dietary restrictions.) Texture and flavor blended perfectly in an unusual and satisfying dish.

Also excellent was a soup offered at lunch, again expertly balancing flavor and texture, showcasing tender vegetables in a clear broth with cubes of tofu and herbs. Accompany your meal with wines from an extensive list or one of the excellent beers available by the bottle. A Woo Woo cocktail

($8.50) was tart and reshing but a bit blah and lacking in garnish or complexity.

Texture and flavor blended again for a lunch special of Eastern Szechuan beef ($16). Expertly sauced slices of beef were half of a composed plate with baby bok choy and a room temperature salad of celery and tofu. The crisp tofu and tender beef played well with the mild, crunchy vegetable and savory bean curd. The “Flowering Fish” lunch entrée showcased the chef’s skill at the fryer, with the seafood perfectly crisp yet assertive in flavor amid breading and spices.

Buttery asparagus and vegetables added to the harmony on the plate, with some cubes of BBQ pork adding another level of flavor.

With tongues tingling and noses running, we turned to the dessert menu — an incongruous blend of Chinese specialties and lavish ice cream concoctions. Perfect to quell the fires of Szechuan cuisine was a bowl of sweet fermented rice balls ($4), served too hot but eventually soothing in their creamy blandness. The balls, made from glutinous rice flour, swam in a clear broth flecked with rice and surprised with their doughy, slippery texture. It was something new, something challenging and something perfectly right to finish a meal full of pleasant discoveries. aste of China, 954 Chapel St., New Haven (203745-5872). v

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fter a summer of freakish heat waves, we all deserve some time on the roof. The roof of Briq, that is — a downtown eatery with a nifty roof terrace and some playful food and drink to make the most of a cool evening.

Briq’s space on College Street has come a long way from its days as home to Roomba and Bespoke, New Haven gems that for years exemplified stylish dining. Those chefs have moved on and the airy three-story building now serves as more of a lounge for the college set, which may be its true calling with its proximity to the boisterous Owl Bar.

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Tapas-style small plates were next, starring a deceptively simple dish of crispy broccoli with miso ($6.50). The florets were fried in a way that made each bite a tiny explosion of flavor and texture, enlivened further by the salty miso dressing. The ample portion size didn’t prevent some squabbling over the last few bits.

Also generously portioned but less successful was the Cliff Jumper Calamari ($10.50), sections of whole squid over a bed of spinach. Tender, perfectly cooked and lightly dressed, the calamari

gained nothing from the tasteless and dry greens.

Also puzzling was the carrot kimchi ($5.50), chunks of vegetable coated in a spicy paste. It lacked the depth and tanginess of the classic Korean pickle even as the hefty slabs of raw carrot challenged the teeth.

Much better was an entrée of Briq Chicken ($19.50), cooked flat and to crisp perfection under an actual brick. Juicy and flavorful, the chicken was spiced with a preserved lemon sauce that added a briny depth. For the price, the side of broccoli rabe was a bit scant but the green’s bright bitterness gave the dish a grown-up kick.

To finish, the Cereal Milk panna cotta ($6), made for an appropriately youthful dessert, with its creamy center tasting just like breakfast. Even better was the crunchy crumble on top that mixed sweet flakes with tart dried berries, providing the perfect foil for the custard.

Through all its transformations of the last years, this restaurant space retains its alluring ambience and youthful appeal. With a few tweaks, Briq has the chops to keep the party going and the cocktails flowing on College Street.

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hile nearly every Nutmegger has heard of Goodspeed Opera House and seen the “wedding cake on the Connecticut River” in advertisements or in person by car or boat, or even attended a performance, very few have had the opportunity to go behind the scenes on a tour. Not only does a tour give one an appreciation for performing in and producing a production with extremely tight quarters, but this is also an affordable activity for anyone interested in Connecticut history and/or theater.

The building was constructed in 1876 by entrepreneur and shipping magnate William Goodspeed. The shell, as Goodspeed planned it, remains mainly in its original state. The main level has played many roles including a general store, law offices, a militia base and even a parking garage for the state’s Department of Transportation. The theater, which is located on the top two floors of the building, however, was always a theater.

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A foundation was formed in the 1950s to save the Opera House, which was ultimately purchased from the state for $1 — one of the best investments the state has ever made. The Goodspeed now is a “manufacturer” of musicals, all produced in East Haddam.

The “campus” consists of 27 buildings including the largest paint deck on the East Coast, a metalworking shop, a costume shop, prop shop, carpentry shop, costume collection including examples from some of the best designers and most famous shows on Broadway, a satellite theater (the Norma Terris Theater in Chester, formerly a knitting-needle factory), new housing for the actors, and a library: the Scherer Library of Musical Theatre, one of the most extensive musical-theater research facilities in the U.S. The theater space is unique and poses many challenges. At its widest the stage is only 27 feet across. The stage is 19 feet deep, and the wing space on one side of the stage is less than six feet and on the other just eight feet. There’s no space under the stage so all of the set transitions, pieces, props and furniture needs to fit through an extremely tight space. Imagine the solutions for different shows!

The Goodspeed Opera House is in East Haddam on the Connecticut River. Come hear the story of one of the most important institutions in American theater which has sent 19 shows to Broadway and won two special Tony Awards. Pretty impressive for a 398-seat theater.

Tours are open to the public and hosted by the Goodspeed Guild every Saturday from early June through late October. Reservations are not required. The cost for adults is $5, children under 12 are $1, and Goodspeed members tour for free.

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