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Colin gets NH-envy again…

Luis — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:55:52 +0000

***Update…I realize that sometimes I get very reactionary and just start jotting down stuff without checking my attitude at the door. I need to start adopting the whole “disagree without being disagreeable” motto Mercy is always preaching to me, and in that spirit I’m going to scratch out all the areas where I let the moment [...]

Marshall House funding slowly coming together

Luis — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:48:42 +0000

On Wednesday, December 17, board members of The Knox Foundation, approved a grant to The Salvation Army’s Marshall House in the amount of $2,500 to be used for operation of the temporary shelter for women and children. This is added to the $33,000 already committed by the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and the (ahem) $1,000 [...]

Downtown Parking…

Luis — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:55:29 +0000

For two and a half years I lived on the corner of Capitol and Hudson. A beautiful one bedroom basement apartment in one of the many incredible brownstones on the block. I was working at the time at The Bushnell Center for Performing Arts and had a relatively short commute of about 5 minutes [...]

Random paloma sightings…

Luis — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:10:47 +0000

A couple links forwarded to me of some random mentions of la paloma sabanera which remind us what the bigger picture is. The first link here is regarding our 3rd anniversary party (pictured above) and the second is regarding the mural that was painted outside our store in our first summer.

Here are more photo’s from [...]

Urban Land Institute in Hartford…

Luis — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:25:24 +0000

Our friend over at Urban Compass has a super duper detailed report on the ULI’s report to Hartford [...]