Author: cjtrowbridge
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New Haven Style Clam Pizza at Modern Apizza
For this one, I reached out to several people including current and former Yale students in order to find out the best local place to get the best local food. As someone who grew up in a Norwegian family where fermented fish is considered a delicacy, I’m not a huge seafood fan. But part of…
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Trowbridge Square Park (Family History)
Ten generations ago, just over a century before the American revolution, my family cofounded New Haven. Those first Trowbridges came to America four centuries ago in order to trade with the indigenous people for furs to export to Europe. About two centuries later, the family laid out this section of the city as a new…
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Shenandoah National Park
Shenandoah National Park covers the peak of the Appalachian Mountains. These mountains come from Pangaea. They are actually older than bones! They are much smaller than the Rockies or even the Sierra or the Siskiyou where I’m from, but that’s only because they’ve been eroding for hundreds of millions of years! There is a road…
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Monticello
There is so much to say about this place. It was Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia estate. He wrote “All men are created equal” in the American Declaration of Independence, and yet he died owning hundreds of enslaved people, including his own children. Just down the hill from Jefferson’s enormous mansion is a dirt road called Mulberry…
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USP 530 – Session 10
April 7th Session Ten: Infrastructure: Water, Waste, Energy, Transportation, Building, Food This session will focus on how changes in urban infrastructure can help cities become more inclusive, resilient, productive, livable, and sustainable. We will be guided by the following questions: Infrastructure: Infrastructure refers to the long-lived engineered structures central to economic and social development. (Slightly…
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Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty! Unfortunately the ferry was not running but I was able to get pretty close on the land. Very cool to finally see it in person!
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Manhattan: Pastrami on Rye at Katz’s
I’ve been scouring all the online food guides as I traverse the nation, looking for gems. This is one to remember. A LOT of people have responded to my post about this sandwich with stories of their own pilgrimages to Katz’s deli in New York City. The process of actually buying the sandwich was…
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OurSpace
A distributed alternative social media system based on RSS over IPFS and using BitTorrent to distribute media attachments. Use something like ENS to resolve usernames to a wallet public address and corresponding RSS feed file of their posts. People could easily restrict their feed to only be viewable to friends, like how TOX works, and…
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Philly Cheesesteak
Philly Cheesesteak is the obvious choice in Philly. I found this great place called John’s Roast Pork on a food blog. I drove several hours to get there, and very nearly missed out. I got one of the last sandwiches of the day! It had very little cheese. It was mostly this great moist and…
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Liberty Bell
The Liberty Bell was forged with the words “Proclaim LIBERTY Throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants Thereof.” It was meant to be hung in the Pennsylvania state house (now called Independence Hall). But it cracked when it was first rung. They tried reforging it twice, but every time it was rung, it would crack. Maybe…