August 26, 2009

  • New England Requiem:

    A Puritan Settlement
    in memory of
    Sen. Edward Kennedy

    "When New Haven was founded, the city was laid out into a grid of nine squares surrounded by a great wilderness.
        Last year [2000] History of Art Professor Emeritus Vincent Scully said the original town plan reflected a feeling that the new city should be sacred.
        Scully said the colony's founders thought of their new Puritan settlement as a 'nine-square paradise on Earth, heaven on earth, New Haven, New Jerusalem.'"

    -- Yale Daily News, Jan. 11, 2001

    "Real and unreal are two in one:
        New Haven
     Before and after one arrives...."

     -- Wallace Stevens,
        "An Ordinary Evening
         in New Haven," XXVIII

    See also Art and Man at Yale.