Aaron Goode, top left, leading a canal history walking tour. Clockwise from top right: Walking south past Yale's Benjamin Franklin College; an Escape New Haven-built diorama of the canal's early railroad years; a turtle sculpture in the Newhallville "Learning Corridor."
New Haven thus year is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the incorporation of the Farmington Canal Company, and the canal’s rebirth as a pedestrian and cycling trail. Celebrate along with Aaron Goode by taking a trip on a crossword he put together for the occasion.
Union Station, a New Haven architectural gem and transportation lifeline, turned 100 this month. A planned celebration had to be postponed because of the pandemic. In the meantime, celebrate along with Aaron Goode by taking a ride on a crossword he put together for the occasion.
Most voters have to wait until next week to vote in Democratic Party mayoral and alder primaries. But it’s not too early to test your knowledge about the campaigns.
Don’t close the book yet on Women’s History Month! Aaron Goode has put together a puzzle that walks us through some highlights of our own city’s historic heroines.
As an especially vibrant Black History Month nears its end, this week’s Elm City Crossword tests your knowledge of some of the lasting achievements and institutions of New Haven’s African-American community.
Having trouble keeping track of the flood of candidates running for governor this year? Try this week’s news crossword to see how much you’ve absorbed after all.
Bankers, banksters, bank-busters, absentee slum-blanklords — see how many of New Haven’s financial finest you can track down in the holiday weekend edition of the Independent crossword puzzle.
In addition to barbecues and season-closing beach visits, the first Monday in September offers a chance for New Haven to commemorate its rich grassroots labor history, some of which can be found in our latest puzzle.
Who built Long Wharf? Where did Booker T. Washington give his last sermon?
You can find the answers by walking around New Haven’s neighborhoods with the help of new interactive local-history guides. And you can find them in this week’s Elm City Crossword.
Think pastrami on rye … then pepperoni pizza, years later in the same spot. Think paperback books, then cookies.
This week’s Elm City Crossword challenges you, once again, to track how New Haven has changed, with a theme of what came before and what has taken its place since.
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Daniel Ravizza |
Jan 23, 2017 3:00 pm
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Ron’s Place does not appear in this Elm City Crossword puzzle. A slew of venerable New Haven music venues past and present do, along with with promoters and rappers and bands that have filled them.
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has long since passed into the history books, but his civil rights legacy remains on display in New Haven. See how much of it you can identify in the latest Elm City Crossword puzzle.
Which New Haven power couple preaches and legislates? Which Westville pol won a statewide primary only to lose in November — and vice versa? Who’s our top elected hipster?
The latest Elm City Crossword tests your knowledge about these and other questions about New Haven politics.
