May 27th, 2010 Permalink
05.12.2010: Middletown, CT - Actor John Bassinger has memorized all 60,000 words of Milton's Paradise Lost and is the subject of a Wesleyan psychology study about memory and aging.
05.26.2010: Torrington, CT - Walter Moore gets a blast of water from a hose manned by his six-year-old son Dadrian Moore during a water fight the two were having Wednesday afternoon outside their Torrington home. Despite Wednesday's record-tying 91 degree heat for the area, Moore said he was outside because,"it was a beautiful day."
05.20.2010: Hartford, CT - Linda McMahon, surrounded by family members Paul Michael Levesque (L), aka Triple H, her husband Vince McMahon and her daughter-in-law Marissa Mazzola, listen as switch votes are announced leading to the eventual nomination to the seante for McMahon at the 2010 Connecticut Republican Convention.
05.13.2010: Storrs, CT - UConn CSA.
05.08.2010: Essex, CT - With a group of privateer re-enactors behind them, Matt Stoner, of Killingworth, and his friend Mason Rice of Haddam, with a candy cigarette, watch as Stoner's mom performs with the Totoket Ancient Fife & Drum Corps and fifteen other fife and drum corps gathered at the end of Main Street along the Essex waterfront. The event was part of the town's Burning of the Ships Ancient Fife and Drum Parade. Fifteen Fife and Drum Bands marched in the parade, sponsored by the Sailing Masters of 1812. The event commemorates the sinking, in 1814, of 28 ships by the British in the War of 1812. Photograph by MARK MIRKO | mmirko@courant.com
04.09.2010: Worcester, MA - David Magnano says his parents' wedding rings, which he wears around his neck, are "two of my three most prized possessions." David's mother Jennifer Magnano was killed in 2007 by her abusive husband, Scott Magnano, who then turned the gun on himself. David is now a student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
05.04.2010: Windsor Locks, CT - The Sabatier Reactor System (right background) is a Hamilton Sundstrand machine that makes potable water fom hydrogen and carbon dioxide for use aboard the International Space Station. Darren Smplatsky, holding a beaker of water, is the Engineering Manager on the project. With the upcoming retirement of the Space Shuttle, which now delivers water to the Space Station, NASA needed a new way for astronauts to get water. The unit produces 275-gallons a year.
04.28.2010: Storrs, CT - UConn student Jessica Henry, 18, accepts a kiss from UConn horse Fiona, as part of a project in her Animal Behavior and Training class. Using positive reinforcement and apples Henry has been working with Fiona for the past month, training her to kiss, hug and walk backwards with simple voice commands. Today, along with her classmates Oliva Carey and Meaghan Bolles, Henry brought Fiona out into a Horsebarn Hill corral to videotape her the results of her efforts in order to show her professor. "I've always loved animals," she said, "I've wanted to be a vet since I was seven-years-old."
04.21.2010: Hartford, CT - John Pogson stands in a hallway off the Mark Twain House Auditorium before giving an address on the 100th Anniversary of Mark Twain's death. The Mark Twain House celebrated today's date with events that Twain, their press release states, "might have loved." There was an expose of spiritualist charlatanism with a magic-filled seance, an Ace of Cakes Mark Twain House cake and a tour of the house led by paranormal expert Lorraine Warren.