I'm Ann Nyberg, and I live for the "find." I'm constantly uncovering remarkable people and places in Connecticut. My passion is sharing these stories with you.
About Ann
Headed For New Haven On The RMS Titanic
One hundred years ago, late at night on April 14th, 1912, the unthinkable happened, the RMS Titanic, the most luxurious ship ever made, hit an iceberg and started to sink into the Atlantic. Fifteen hundred-fourteen would perish on the luxury ocean liner including 44-year old James Kelly of County Kildaire. Kelly’s daughter, Margaret proceeded him to America, she was in New… Continue reading
Love Your Local Library
Have you been inside your local library lately? If you haven’t, go in and take a look around, yes, I know you will be surrounded by those ancient things called books, but go in anyway and take it all in.
I did this the other day at the gorgeous New Haven Free Library. I was there to host a talk… Continue reading
Jesse and Ray’s Barbecue
These New Haven, Connecticut brothers, ten years apart, (I’ll let you guess which one is older) have smoked barbecue down pat. Any kind of barbecue you can think of they make. They have a top secret weapon on board their transformed bread truck that makes their dishes out of this world. Don’t try to get it out of me, I… Continue reading
“It’s A Wonderful Life”~ A Live Radio Play
It’s pretty much Christmas year ’round for Bridgeport, Connecticut playwright, Joe Landry. Around the actual holidays things really get ramped up thanks to a play he wrote some twenty years ago.
Joe and his two siblings grew up in a household where the arts were favored. Joe’s Dad is an artist and his Mom loved the stage and she introduced… Continue reading
Pop Ups Fill Empty Store Fronts
This is brilliant. An empty store front initiative, a way to move “Main Street” Connecticut ahead in really tough economic times. Danyel Aversenti of New Haven by way of New Jersey has formed a company called Our Empty Space. She runs around the city talking to landlords about their empty store front and fills the spaces.
With Danyel’s background in… Continue reading
Connecticut’s Historic Goodspeed Theater
A Connecticut Mom On A Mission
X-Factor Greece, Here I Come!
Captain Morgan, Want A Cracker?Previous Finds
Chowder and Merriment in Olde Mistick Village
Taking on 27 different chowders from Connecticut and Rhode Island shoreline restaurants in one afternoon at the Ninth Annual...
From Perfume To Furniture
I just eat this history stuff up in Connecticut. Did you know that the long time Carroll Cut-Rate Furniture in West Haven,...
Anna’s Creations Will “Floor” You!
This is just a great idea, period. Anna Amore of Amore Floor Covering and Design Center and Photographer and media...
The Victorian Lady and The Bubble Master
These two have the whole world in their hands, well actually in this case it's a bubble. Meet Casey and Kandie Carle of East...
Rich Is The “Wood Wiz”
Rich Ramagli of Madison, Connecticut loves to work with raw wood, in particular wood with "rich" grains like oak, because he...
