On Chapel Street, in New Haven, Connecticut, opposite the Old Campus: from the time of glaciation, cultivated by the Quinnipiac; in 1614, charted by a Dutch explorer; in 1638, colonized by the Puritans; throughout the American Revolution, home of the signer, Roger Sherman, his second wife Rebecca Prescott-Sherman, their fifteen children, and the family store; in 1860, industrialist Gaius Fenn Warner's Italianate villa, by Henry Austin; in 1880, Marshal Peter R. Carll's Opera House; in 1884, the Republican League; in 1887, the Hyperion; in 1903, the Union League addition, by Richard Williams; in 1926, the Roger Sherman Theater; beginning in 1976, a tradition of French fine dining, that continues today. While the Roger Sherman house is no longer standing, it holds up all right.
"Jim Grabowski crossed his arms, the fingers of one hand enclosing a delicate, fan-shaped paintbrush, and summed up his career as an artist. 'I paint things nobody else paints... my way,' said the man whose robust, black-bearded appearance is as solid as the work he produces. Grabowski assembles collages. He combines acrylic backgrounds with whatever material interests him, from sea fans to wallpaper and gold foil."
"Dr. A. E. Winchell and George D. Hughes, proprietors of the Hyperion, are about to erect two new brick buildings close to the theater. One will be a business block, three stories high and 36 by 50 feet in dimensions, to contain a large basement office, two stores on the first floor, two offices in the second story and an office for a photographer on the top floor. The location of the block will be directly in front of the Hyperion, on the vacant plot where a fountain has heretofore stood, leaving the wide concrete walk for a passage-way to the Hyperion between this new structure and the Republican league building."
August 22, 1902 — President Theodore Roosevelt toured the city of Hartford in a state-of-the-art horseless carriage aka electric car. The vehicle, a Phaeton Mark IV, built by the Columbia Electric Vehicle Company of Hartford, was designed by a member of the Union League Club of New Haven, William Hooker Atwood.
"Prior to the reading, Allen explained how he was tear-gassed in New Haven last week while attending the weekend rally in support of Black Panther Bobby Seale. Ginsberg said he used breathing exercises rendering the tear gas ineffective against him."
"America is moving again — so are Connecticut and New Haven. But to help keep them moving, I need your help in this election. For much more remains to be done. Too many problems are still ahead. Too many measures for the good of this country have been defeated by a narrow margin."
"I do not know what caused the fire. A woman had just finished singing on the stage and the film was being shown. I saw a little smoke and a light which I thought had something to do with the production. Then I saw a piece of blazing material fall from the top of the stage. It was small, but it was followed by a burst of fire."
For the 7 years that I worked for Chef Rick Bayless (PBS TV series, multiple James Beard Award winner) in Chicago as a restaurant manager, I was managing media for his restaurants, as well. When I started, Chef Rick only had a personal Twitter account. I designed the branding, social media pages, website, and online… Continue reading Media Experience at XOCO