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Cold and rainy today with chance for snow in parts of Connecticut
News 12 Staff
Updated on:Apr 16, 2021, 8:41am EDT
Today will be cold and rainy with a chance for snow in some parts of eastern Connecticut, especially north of the Merritt and Wilbur Cross parkways.
Shoreline areas will continue to pick up rain throughout the day. High temperatures will be in the mid- to upper-40s.
Rain will clear gradually this evening.
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The spring of 1933 was a trying time: the depths of the Depression, a new president scrambling to reverse systemic disasters and lift shattered spirits. Sound familiar?
During that Commencement week, the Phi Beta Kappa Orator was Connecticut governor Wilbur Cross he of the eponymous parkway, and a thorough Yalie. In
Connecticut Yankee, his autobiography, he called the invitation the “most signal honor in my literary career.” Taking as his cue Ralph Waldo Emerson’s famous “American Scholar” address, Cross told his audience “that 1837 and 1933 were alike in that they were both years of ‘economic confusion and public upheaval,’ and yet Emerson had no word about hard times, which must have been in the minds of all his hearers. ‘Looking beyond turmoil and distress, he did not let his gaze wander, for more than a moment, from the ultimate triumph of the human spirit over material things.’”
I am writing to Apple and Google again demanding that sufficient warnings be provided, said Blumenthal. Author: Tony Terzi Updated: 5:25 PM EDT April 5, 2021
NEW HAVEN, Conn. Each year, nearly 25 million vehicles use the Merritt and Wilbur Cross Parkways, which extend from the New York border to Meriden. But as more and more travelers are ignoring the commercial vehicle ban in place for the Parkway, the State Police and lawmakers are taking notice.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D - Connecticut) contends many truckers have no idea when entering the Wilbur Cross or Merrit Parkway that they may soon encounter an overpass too low for them to pass under.
– John S. Stokes Jr.
As we come to know the growth and blooming of the Flowers of Our Lady in our Mary Gardens, we acquire a heightened alertness to their presence also in the neighborhoods and waysides through which we travel. Thus discovered, they evoke our reflections and prayers in a spontaneous and ever-changing way as we move about, as distinct from the familiar reflections in our gardens. As Judith Smith observes in The Mary Calendar, Every field path and hedgerow (becomes) an illuminated Book of Hours.
This is a return to the spirituality of medieval times, when symbolical flowers were characteristically encountered in and gathered from the countrysides rather than gardens. In this period, when people traveled mostly afoot, flower prayers were focused, not by garden statues or grottos of Our Lady, but by wayside shines or field crosses encountered as they moved about.