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Hartford Travel Coverage

Andrew Sullivan for The New York Times

For Wallace Stevens, Hartford as Muse

The Connecticut capital is where Wallace Stevens composed many of his verses while commuting on foot between his comfortable house and his office at an insurance company.

By JEFF GORDINIER

  2. American Journeys

    Monet Meets the Colt .45 in Hartford

    By NANCY M. BETTER

    What the Connecticut capital lacks — glamorous night life, a lively commercial downtown — it makes up for with its legacies from a wealthier past, its accessibility and its bargains.

  3. When Short Getaways Are Sweet

    By SUSAN JACOBY

    YOU'RE in desperate need of a break but can only get away for one night. ''It's not worth it,'' people will say, suggesting that you stay put until you can manage at least a three-day weekend. But what if you can't possibly get away for any kind...

  5. 2 Houses From Hartford's Greener Era

    By SUZANNE BERNE;

    THE corner of Sisson and Farmington Avenues in Hartford has become frumpy over the last century. Elm-shaded mansions have given way to a submarine-sandwich franchise, a drugstore and monolithic apartment buildings, candy wrappers whirl across the...

  6. WHAT'S DOING IN

    Hartford

    By MIKE ALLEN

    Under an eight-foot-tall Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington, an actor dressed in a slave trader's gold vest sinks to his knees and tells a judge, ''The Negroes had gathered with sabers around my head, and they just started singing my death...

  7. REAGAN CALLS FOR DRINKING AGE OF 21

    By STEVEN R. WEISMAN

    President Reagan got a glimpse of a New Jersey high school's program to combat drunken driving today and called for a nationwide minimum drinking age of 21. He then flew to Connecticut and criticized Democrats for opposing parts of his proposed...