Dear Adam Cloud: “Yard Goats” is the definition of unique. Also, your argument that the name is offensive is absurd.

• Post author:Matthew Dicks
• Post published:April 11, 2015
• Post category:Critic/Sports/Words
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If you haven’t heard, the New Britain Rock Cats – the Colorado Rockies Double A affiliate – are moving to Hartford and have been renamed The Yard Goats.The Yard Goats…

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A good old fashioned book mobile!

• Post author:Matthew Dicks
• Post published:September 27, 2013
• Post category:Books
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Look what we found in the midst of a poorly advertised festival in downtown Hartford last weekend: An actual book mobile! Operated by Penguin Books, it was a joy to…

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Another Speak Up date added to the calendar

• Post author:Matthew Dicks
• Post published:July 9, 2013
• Post category:Speak Up/Storytelling
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Please mark your calendars! Again! Our next Speak Up storytelling event is on Saturday, September 28 at 7:00 PM at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT. The theme of the…

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I brought my son home from the hospital and found myself in the midst of Hartford’s Puerto Rican parade.

• Post author:Matthew Dicks
• Post published:June 5, 2012
• Post category:Autobiography
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When I picked up my newborn son from the hospital on Sunday and finally brought him and my wife home, I had the unexpected pleasure of driving through Hartford’s Puerto…

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