Piano rags filled the air as waiters and waitresses bedecked in Gay Nineties clothing served the libations. A woman in a bear costume mingled with the crowd. A mime performed. Outside, a horse hitched to a carriage whinnied in the crisp, winter night.

And who was in the carriage, trotting dignitaries up and down Chapel Street? Who else but Joel Schiavone, New Haven’s flashiest builder, a flamboyant developer who believed — and proved — that showmanship is as much an ingredient of success as business sense.

The event was the opening of Schiavone’s refurbished Warner Apartments and, as with everything else he did, Schiavone wanted people to notice. Schiavone carefully cultivated an image as the man who could save downtown, have fun, and make a fortune doing it.

Source: https://rogershermanhouse.com/2019/09/11/dream-for-a-theater-district-coming-true-by-kristi-vaughn/

While the ship Hector was sailing across the Atlantic in the spring of 1637, the English settlers of New England were conducting a genocidal war against the Pequot. In the month of May, English soldiers burned the Pequot fort near New London and massacred many hundreds of Pequot men, women and children. The few who escaped fled westward along the shore of Long Island Sound.

As the soldiers pursued the Pequot along the shore, they stopped several days at a place called Quinnipiac (or Long-water-land), because they thought some of the Pequot were hidden there. The English liked the place very much, and reported back to Boston that Quinnipiac showed great potential for a settlement. They described the fine harbor with rivers emptying into it and broad rich meadows on all sides.

Source: https://rogershermanhouse.com/2020/01/15/the-landing-at-quinnipiac-by-ernest-hickock-baldwin/

The story of Connecticut has two parts, the place and the people. Either part can be studied alone, but the whole story of Connecticut began before any people lived there. Back many thousands of years ago, when the world was young, the mountains of Connecticut rose thousands of feet into the air..."

Source: https://rogershermanhouse.com/2019/12/16/the-landforms-of-connecticut-by-joseph-bixby-hoyt/