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“Rise and Rise Again” – Connecticut Valley Brewing Company: Sherwood Double New England Style India Pale Ale

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An enigmatic line of text emblazoned across the can of this week’s featured beer – the Sherwood Double New England India Pale Ale from Connecticut Valley Brewing Company – implores us to “Rise and Rise Again”. The brewery claims the name comes from Connecticut’s Sherwood Island State Park, the state’s oldest ( Yeah, sure… ).

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I and the Bird: What is a Swallow?

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Many species build nests of sticks or mud or spit on human-made structures , or in houses we’ve constructed specifically for their use. That’s probably why they’ve endeared themselves to human culture over the centuries. Connecticut River Swallow Spectacle – Nick Bonomo, Shorebirder. General Swallows.

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Aslin Beer Company/Two Roads Brewing Company: Under the Wire

10,000 Birds

Birds may have taken to these artificial perches like ducks to water, but human reactions to the newfangled poles and wires were hardly as appreciative, especially in the early day. We humans tend not to think of utility poles and wires as “beautiful” or “natural” elements of the environment, when we notice them at all. As Daniel L.

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On Why a Bunny Might Have Two Noses

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( AP Photo/The Connecticut Post, Brian A. Pounds ) A pet store in Connecticut received a shipment of products last week. The rabbits were produced, of course, by a rabbit mill that supplies "pet" stores with live creatures whom humans will purchase without having any idea of the conditions they were produced under.

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