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Author Lary Bloom at WNHH FM.
Lary Bloom’s parents retired to a gated community in Florida that didn’t allow anyone under 55 inside.
When it came his time to retire, Bloom decided he wanted to remain in the real world, among all kinds of people. He wanted to do that in … New Haven.
Seven years after moving to East Rock, he found that New Haven is a great place to retire. He also found a new professional calling: Documenting what it’s like to live here in retirement.
You can read the results in I’ll Take New Haven: Tales of Discovery & Rejuvenation. The book is a collection of essays he mostly originally wrote for the New Haven Independent. Antrim House published the collection, to be released Oct. 14.
Bloom, who is 78, moved to New Haven from Chester. He is the retired editor of the Hartford Courant’s former Sunday magazine and the author of eight books (including this one about the artist Sol LeWitt). In I’ll Take New Haven, Bloom invites readers along on a first fretful climb up East Rock, to encounters with fellow Vietnam vets, to early hours set aside for seniors at Stop & Shop at the dawn of the Covid-19 pandemic, to adventures at the dog park. He makes us fall in love with an Italian water dog named Lucca.
You can order the book here. And you can watch Bloom talk about on WNHH FM’s “Dateline New Haven,” in the video below.
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