Crossing Connecticut
An occasional look at Connecticut’s remarkable people, places and things.
A CT artist takes on COVID (and the world) one drawing at a time
During COVID, Connecticut artist Pamela Sztybel began drawing small satirical takes on Donald Trump and the news. And then she kept at it.
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A chemist, a chef and an author craft soy sauce on the CT coast
For Bob Florence, brewing soy sauce at home was a hobby. Then James Wayman, a chef who was conducting his own soy experiments, got involved.
At Steadfast Farms, CT veteran is finding purpose through quail farming
Marine veteran Jared McCool opened Steadfast Farms in Bethlehem in 2017. Now, it’s capable of producing as many as 320,000 quail eggs a year.
UConn grapples with the legacy of a CT institution for the disabled
For the past three years, a UConn professor and her students have been piecing together the history of the Mansfield Training School.
26 years after lobster die-off, CT lobstermen reflect on a net loss
The Long Island Sound lobster industry was decimated in 1999, but CT’s last few commercial lobstermen keep the tradition alive in Stonington.
For this New Britain man, late summer is pigeon racing season
Wilberto Aponte, president of the Connecticut Classic Pigeon Club, has 200 homing pigeons. With racing season underway, the stakes are high.
Bridgeport’s Sisters at the Shore are changing lives through prayer
What started as a weekly gathering of women to pray at Seaside Park grew into a movement that spread to Chicago, North Carolina and Italy.
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