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Hartford Festival of Light
Don't miss the 45th annual Hartford Festival of Light in Downtown Hartford with the illumination of more than 250,000 energy-efficient lights. Hartford Festival of Light is free and open to the public. All are encouraged to bring a new, unwrapped toy to...Tags: Commuting, Travel, First Night of Hartford, Hartford Festival of Light, U.S. Marine Corps
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Hartford/Central Connecticut
Wood Pond PressHARTFORD Lately billed as New England's rising star, the Insurance City – Connecticut's state capital – is making a comeback from its low point in the early 1990s when people, jobs, retailers and the major-league hockey franchise left for greener...Tags: Horse (animal), Georgia O'Keeffe, Furniture, Hotels and Accommodations, Firearms
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Etc. (Listings of Other Stuff)
55TH ANNUAL OPEN HOUSE TOUR OF LITCHFIELD July 13 - Features selection of historic and architecturally significant homes. Self-guided tour begins at the information booth on the green. Proceeds benefit Connecticut Junior Republic. •10 a.m.-5 p.m....Tags: Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Mystic Aquarium and Institute for Exploration, Howie Mandel, Prince (music artist)
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Baubles, Brutality And Buff
Unbelievably opulent decorative works, unsettling photographs of contemporary atrocities and an overview of the history of the nude in American art are the dominant themes in major exhibitions at Connecticut art venues this summer.
At Hartford's...Tags: Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut, Education, Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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CIGNA, Spare Those Buildings
Editorial"An act of barbarism" is how Hartford architect Tyler Smith describes plans to destroy landmark buildings on CIGNA's campus in Bloomfield. In a persuasive Commentary article on Sunday, Mr. Smith pleads for the preservation of what he calls ``perhaps the...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Sports, Hotels and Accommodations, World War II (1939-1945), Mark Twain
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Quantum Leap
Courant Staff WriterWhen noted architects from Amsterdam and New York unveil their expansion plans for the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art at a press conference Friday, the public will get its first glimpse of the dramatic, innovative improvements soon in store for the 160-...Tags: Amsterdam (Netherlands), Education, Trumbull, Architecture, Long Island City
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To Save Wilde Still Time To Preserve Cigna's Landmark
EditorialIn his autobiography, Frank Lloyd Wright observed, ``No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.'' The same goes for the best office...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Sports, Furniture, Hotels and Accommodations, General Motors Corp.
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Classical Music Listings
ASYLUM HILL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Jan. 3 - 5 - 36th annual Boar's Head and Yule Log Festival. Jan. 3, 7:30 p.m.; Jan. 4, 3 & 6:30 p.m.; Jan. 5, 1 & 4:30 p.m. Historic sanctuary decorated for holiday feast as musicians and jugglers, lords and ladies,...Tags: Giacomo Puccini, Lutheranism, Education, Holidays, Hartford Symphony Orchestra
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Fall Films: The Devil And Mr. Godard
The Hartford CourantFilm fans, prepare for a busy, gratifying fall. In addition to the spate of remakes, sequels and prequels at the cineplex, the art-house calendar might as well be wrapped in a celluloid ribbon. Dates have yet to be finalized in most cases, but there are...Tags: Documentary (genre), Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Education, Entertainment, Gays and Lesbians
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Diarist Rose Terry Grew Into Her Craft
Courant Staff WriterRose Terry Cooke probably would have been surprised to learn that her main popularity in turn-of-the-21st-century Hartford was on The Courant's Flip Page for kids. It was in late 1999 that Flip editor Valerie Finholm got the idea of printing excerpts from...Tags: University of Maryland, College Park, Death, Connecticut, Education, Mark Twain
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Weir Farm: A Picture-Perfect Park
The Hartford CourantAmong national parks, Weir Farm National Historic Site is a small one, tiny when compared with a Yellowstone or an Acadia. Indeed, it is easily overlooked, though it shouldn't be. Weir Farm may be little, but for what it is, a one-of-a-kind look at a...Tags: Social Issues, Tourism and Leisure, New Britain, Lakes and Ponds, Farms
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The View From Main
The Hartford CourantRebecca Taber-Conover says it happens all the time: As she leads a tour down Hartford's Main Street, people are bowled over by its history and architecture - once it is brought to their attention. "A lot of folks - and I was this way, too - you drive...Tags: History, Tourism and Leisure, Bushnell Park, Education, Monuments and Heritage Sites
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