CHS Preserves Drawings of Historic Homes

The Connecticut Historical Society is in the process of digitally preserving the original architectural drawings of over 60 historic homes in Hartford’s West End. Late last week I had an opportunity to sit down with Nancy Finlay, CHS Director of Graphics, to learn more about the collection. She spoke passionately about both the project and the team working to make these historic documents more broadly available. The source material for this multi-year effort has been

Weekend Plans: Jan 29th 2011

My weekend plan is to shovel snow. Even if it isn’t actively precipitating, there’s still snow to move. This week it was slushy stuff the plow deposited at the bottom of the driveway when they came through the neighborhood on a second pass a few days after the most recent storm. And I guess I should have done a better job tunneling through the giant snow banks at the intersection since a good samaritan took