49:01 minutes (47.05 MB) Download this Episode One of America’s
oldest cities. The oldest continuously published newspaper. The
oldest public art museum. The city of Hartford is wrapped in
history. But what about it's future? Since its first settlement
by Dutch colonists in the early 1600s, Hartford has been a place
of commerce and invention…art and literature…a center for
abolitionists and insurers…bisected by a highway and by battles
over race and class…a city that suburban office workers see by
day, but not often by night…the butt of jokes and jibes…New
England’s “Rising Star” – or so went the ad campaign. Hartford
is neighborhoods, alive with language and cultures from around
the world…but crushed by poverty. Hartford is Puerto Rican,
African American, and West Indian. It is populated by people who
care about the place they live – who wonder if it can be the
place they want it to be. Today, Where We Live, live from Real
Art Ways in Hartford, a conversation about our capitol city –
where it’s been, where i