Thursday, March 28, 2024

Culture

Enslaved Africans in the Colony of Connecticut

Black History Month By Barbara HeimlichEditor Sources:  The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition;  The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for...

Town Council Presentation for Black History Month

Councilman Alvin O'Neal (D Chairman ProTempore) District 3 Councilman Alvin O'Neal's upcoming presentation at the February 12th Council meeting for Black History Month is set...

The Poetry Corner

By Norah Christianson The World Is Too Much With Us -William Wordsworth (English Romantic Poet 1770 - 1850) The world is too much with us; late and soon,Getting and...

Stratford Library Special “Meet-the-Author” Event for “Black History Month”

“White Wife Blue Baby” Redding Author Gail HowardSunday, February 11Th  from 2-3 p.m.Free and open to the publicStratford Library Lovell Room, 2203 Main Street Join us...

The Poetry Corner

By Norah Christianson Some Thoughts on Desire Well, disappointingly, I’ll not be talking about sexual desire here, though you can go there if you like. The...

Poetry Corner

By Norah Christianson Seeing His Way-for JeffBy Norah Pollard A homeless man is living under the stairsof the defunct Stratford Festival Theater. He’s built a little fort...

Poetry Corner

By Norah Christianson Miniver Cheevy By Edwin Arlington Robinson Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn, 1  Grew lean while he assailed the seasons; He wept that he was ever born, 1....

The Poetry Corner

By Norah Christianson   I don’t know what to say about this poem. There is nothing to say. It is perfect. Allen Ginsberg has said, “This...