“One Royal Holiday” is this year’s newest Hallmark Christmas movie and Connecticut is prominently featured. Kara and I watched it with great anticipation because our old home has a starring role. The […]
Movie Filmed at Our Old Home
Halloween 2020
In 2019 we had roughly 800 trick or treaters. 2020? Zero. Nada. Following the guidance of Governor Lamont and the state’s COVID-19 guidelines, Kara and I decided to not give out candy […]
CapChat on Brain Drain, Baseball and the ‘Burbs
This week on CapChat on Face the State we are talking about new developments in the baseball stadium proposed for the Downtown North section of the city, attracting suburbanites to Hartford and […]
Face the State Flashback: A Legendary Department Store Closes its Doors
There was nothing like it in Connecticut then, and there is certainly nothing like it now. We’re talking about the legendary G. Fox department store in downtown Hartford, that closed its doors […]
Face the State Flashback: An Historic Easter in Hartford
In this Sunday’s Face the State flashback, we take you back to April 10, 1966, when an estimated 3-4,000 people gathered on Constitution Plaza in downtown Hartford to make history on a […]
ESPN’s Buccigross on NHL Return to Hartford
You’d be hard pressed to find someone who doesn’t think our state would be better off with the Hartford Whalers back in town. Ever since former Whalers owner Howard Baldwin returned to […]
Face the State Flashback: Patriots Announce Move to Hartford
Connecticut was an interesting case study in fan loyalty this past Super Bowl. The New York Giants certainly have their fair share of fans in our state, even if many can’t remember […]
What Hartford Might Have Been
When I first moved to Connecticut in 1992, I was given this poster and told this is what Hartford would like in 1995. I recently found it in a box and it is […]
Hartford Cathedral Fire of 1956
60 years ago this New Year’s Eve, a devastating fire in Hartford made headlines around the world. The ornate Cathedral of St. Joseph, the mother church of the Archdiocese of Hartford, was […]
Flashback: The Hartford Rams?
Yes, that is an NFL stadium pictured in the Downtown North neighborhood of Hartford. Not the one New England Patriots owner Bob Kraft said he was bringing his team to in 1998, […]
Bye Bye Home Sweet Home
A special era came to end for Kara and me today. We sold our old house, the home where we spent the first years of our life together. It was the summer […]
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