Come honor and support two great organizations

HartBeat Ensemble is awarding its Cultural and Civil Leadership Award to the wonderful Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, one of Hartford’s — no, Connecticut’s — treasures, and a bastion of social justice, as was the woman for whom the center was named. As you can see from above, proceeds will go to support HartBeat’s incredible work. “Our …

This story has everything: Family, drama, issues of class…

I wrote about the Scarborough 11, the group of people who’ve banded together to form an intentional community in Hartford. They’ve been living in one for years in Hartford, but stuff started flying when they bought a mansion on one of the city’s toniest streets and the neighbors cried foul. The column is  here. For …

What a difference a day makes, Hartford zoning version

So I wrote this for Connecticut Magazine, about a group of 11 Harford residents (eight adults and three children) who banded together to form an intentional community in a mansion (pictured) in one of Hartford’s chi-chi neighborhoods. Many of the neighbors don’t want them there, and so the board of zoning stepped in. The group …

Free the Scarborough 11

Well, “free” may be overstating things. How about we just leave alone the group who’ve formed an intentional community in a chi-chi neighborhood in Hartford? I wrote this for Connecticut Magazine.