Southern Poverty Law Center’s Lecia Brooks spoke to a crowd of nearly 100 on the state of hate and extremism in the U.S. during the featured lecture for the Hate Has No Home at UMass campaign on Oct. 2. Brooks, who led the talk in the Bernie Dallas Room in Goodell Hall, offered a detailed…
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Hartford Drill Team is a Labor of Love
It had been four years since Gwen Morgan last coached a drill team. After 35 years, she had retired from the coaching scene, focusing instead on her day job as a bus driver in Hartford. But when she got a call from Jackie Thornton, a high school student in Hartford who wanted her help assembling…
The Ice Man Carveth: Ex-Chef Now Serves Up Frozen Artworks
Bill Covitz spends his days inside an 18-degree warehouse freezer wielding a chainsaw. As an ice sculptor running his own Waterbury-based business, Ice Matters, with his wife, Jen, Covitz says working inside a freezer is crucial. “Other ice sculptors carve outside, in the shade. They can’t imagine carving in the freezer,” he says. “I can’t…
Toasting 80 Years of Magic Moments at The Bushnell
“I tell people, ‘When I die, I either want to be in bed, with all of my family around, saying farewell, or I want to lie down in the aisle and look up at the ceiling at Mortensen Hall at the Bushnell,’” said Alan Schwartz of Avon. “That, to me, is one of the most…
Historian Unravels A Killer Story; Long-Overlooked Conn. Case Was First Mass Murder
It’s Feb. 3, 1780, on the cusp of midnight. Outside, it’s snowing. The Mallorys, like most of the residents of Washington, Conn., are asleep in their bedroom. But 19-year-old Barnett Davenport, the family’s farmhand and boarder, is not. In one hand, he holds a swingle, a wooden instrument he uses each day on the Mallory…
